Summary
Tromsø alone has a jazz festival, a rock festival and its film festival - coinciding with the day the sun comes back over the horizon and brings to an end what local people call the mørketid, or "dark times". The programme is extensive and thrilling: alongside international blockbusters and worthy documentaries set in the circumpolar regions, the festival showcases Kill Buljo, a parody of Kill Bill set in the lands of the reindeer-herding Sami.
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Northern Lights
The farthest point on the horizon visible from Tromsø harbour is pincered between two hulking stone mountains, shouldering heavy coats of snow. I am here for the first time, entirely ignorant of Norway beyond the anguished wails of its artists and writers for a life not hemmed in by endless fjords...
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