Se meg / Don’t Call Me Mama
My debut feature premiered in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025, where Pia Tjelta won the Best Actress Award, and continues its international festival run.
« Nina Knag’s feature-debut - a hard-hitting psychological drama posing as a Sirkian love story.»
Damon Wise / Deadline
«It’s a harsh, carefully crafted, and raw film with committed performances and a finale so brutal it’ll be long before you can shake it after the credits roll. »
Emma Kiely / Collider
«Lust, trust and creativity are at the center of Don’t Call Me Mama, Nina Knag’s formulaic yet compelling directorial debut. »
Max Borg / Loud and Clear
«Sex, Lies and Nordic Privilege: Norway’s Nina Knag and Pia Tjelta Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About the Refugee Crisis in ‘Don’t Call Me Mama.»
Variety
«Knag goes one step further, brilliantly exposing how politicians exploit xenophobic rhetoric and tropes (immigrants lie, they abuse our system, rob us of our public funds, etc) to their own benefit, while hypocritically harbouring very dark and compromising secrets of their own.»
Victor Fraga / DMovies
«Viewed from Eva’s perspective, it is an all-consuming reciprocal passion. But then Nina Knag’s elegantly uncomfortable feature debut pulls back to reveal more, prompting questions about abuse of power and the oblivious self-absorption that comes with privilege. »
Wendy Ide / Screendaily
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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