The
Goodness
Regime

2013
HD Video
21 min

The Goodness Regime is an experimental documentary written and directed collaboratively by the Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle. With the help of a cast of children, the film investigates the foundations of the ideology and self-image of modern Norway – from the Crusades, via the adventures of Fridtjof Nansen and the trauma of wartime occupation, to the diplomatic theatre of the Oslo Peace Accords. The Goodness Regime was shot in Norway and Palestine, and combines the children's performances with archive sound recordings including US President Bill Clinton speaking at the signing of the Oslo Accords, and Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik's New Year address to the Norwegian people in 2000. The film attempts to capture the apparatus that perpetuate the image of Norway as a peacemaking nation and absolve the nation from the power structures it upholds. The Goodness Regime premiered at Kunsthall Oslo exactly twenty years after the conclusion and signing of the Oslo Agreement by Israel and the PLO in August and September 1993, and has since then been shown in a number of exhibitions and festivals around the world.

Director & Producer
Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

Cast
Anna Iona Kvarø Aune, Enzo Bijl, Tora Bøckman, Laura Cuzner, Freja Fredriksdottir, Olav Magnus Gravvold, Ellen Omtvedt Jenssen, Nour Petra Issa Sørvig, Bjørn Wærenskjold, Lulu, Amir Abu-Leil, Yousef Abu-Leil, Talib Alaa, Fatima Izz, Hussein Jad, Areen Saeed, Kays Kadoum, Omar Mohyi-Eddin, Othman Raed, Majd Abu Shareefah, Amir Abu-Leil, Yousef Abu-Lei, Sanad U'beyde, Saba U'beyde

Camera
Jumana Manna, Sille Storihle

Additional Camera
Jon Erik Kopperud, Marte Vold

Art Directors
Jumana Manna, Sille Storihle

Editor
Jumanna Manna

Editing Consultants
Katrin Ebersohn, Sille Storihle

Sound Design
Vladimir Rakić

Crew in Palestine
Camera: Yaniv Linton
Assistant art director: Dina Kornveits
Line producer: Ziad Trad
Lighting: Faisal Barghouti
Grip: Amjad Ibrahim
Gaffer: Atef Al-Ikhras
Assistant grip: Mohammad Trad

Thank You
Atelier Nord, Audun Renolen Aasbø, Kamal Aljafari, Ayman Azraq, Bashir Bashir, Liv Bugge, Tormod Carlsen, Lars Cuzner, Jan Egeland, Bodil Furu, Stian Gabrielsen, Ahmad Ghossein, Shoghig Halajian, Nicolas Horne, Silja Espolin Johnson, Stian Jorde, Line Khateeb, Karoline Kjeldsen, Henriette Indine Kleppe, Kjetil Kristensen, Henriette Lunde, Kunsthall Oslo, Jonas Kværner, Kunsthall Oslo, Adel Manna, Aziza Manna, Nell May, Mediefabrikken, NRK costume department, Vanessa Ohlraun, The Municipality of Oslo, The Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Jon Pedersen, Ashkan Sepahvand, Ron Pundak, Bérénice Reynaud, Roee Rosen, Mathea Storihle, Storyline Studios, Asle Toje, Bendik Sørvig, Odd Karsten Tveit, Oslo kommune, Nadia Haj Yasein, Hilde Henriksen Waage, Nina Witoszek, Ylva Wærenskjold

Special Thanks
Will Bradley, Rana Issa

Financial Support
Arts Council Norway, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Sharjah Art Foundation, Norsk Fotografisk Fond, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)

www.thegoodnessregime.com