Edith Carlmar was Norway's first female film director. During Kosmorama, the Edith Carlmar Prize is awarded to a professional female filmmaker in Norway who has shown integrity, a fearless ability to innovate and a willingness to break boundaries. The prize has existed since 2010, and honors Carlmar as an innovative film director. This year's winner is cinematographer Cecilie Semec. She receives a scholarship of 50,000 kroner as well as a reprint of an original Edith Carlmar film poster. It will be awarded during the festival's Midtfest on Wednesday 19.03.

The prize is a collaboration with Sparebank 1 SMN.

Kosmorama celebrates the prize by inviting to a special symposium in her name on Thursday 20.03 at 14.00-16.30 at Cinemateket in Trondheim. There will be a focus on this year's prize winner through a conversation in addition to a panel discussing the role of women in Norwegian film today. We have invited past winners and experts in the field to the panel.

Program:

14.00-14.05: Welcome
14.05-14.10: Bare Kødd (Hamer, 1995)
14.10-15.10: Conversation between Cecilie Semec and film professor at NTNU Anne Gjelsvik
15.10-15.20: Screening of Screening of the short film Kjøttsår (Gamlem 2011)
15.20-15.30: Leg Stretch
15.30-16.30: Panel: Recruitment of women to the Norwegian film industry
Ingvil Giske, film producer
Benedikte Danielsen, Norwegian Film Institute
Cecilie Semec, cinematographer and winner of the Edith Carlmar Prize 2025
Silje Riise-Næss, Talent Norway
Anne Gjelsvik, Film Professor NTNU (moderator)

The symposium is a collaboration between Kosmorama, the Cinemateket in Trondheim and the Midtnorsk Filmsenter, and is supported by Fritt Ord.