Pictures from Festival 2025
Posted date:
06/02/2025

Opening event.



Kathrine Nedrejord og Marjam Idriss in conversation with festival director Teresa Grøtan about ghosts in Norwegian colonial history.


The truth from inside the walls.

The truth from inside the walls.

The unbridled freedom of expression! with Kjersti Løken Stavrum and Hilde Sandvik.

Jerusalems dramatic history, a talk by Trond Bakkevig.

The critics seminar with Rana Issa about palestinian poetry.

Johan Harstad in conversation with Johannes Grytnes.

Truth in free fall: Johannes Anyuru in conversation with Priya Bains.

Pal-Fest!

Pal-Fest!

Pal-Fest!
Photographer: Eivind Senneset

Literary date with Margreth Olin and John Olav Nilsen, with Mona
B. Riise as match maker.


Poetic punk gala.

The true body– Talk by Luca Dalen Espseth.

Imprisoned by literature.

The Queer Archive– Past and Present.

How do journalists seek out the truth?

Poetic punk gala.

Mímir and alcohol.

City walk in the footsteps of Karl Ove Knausgård.

What is Cuban dissident literature?

Poetic punk gala.
Photographer: Eivind Senneset

Beautiful Gaza– Mohammed Omer in conversation with Kjersti G. Berg.

Our bodies– with Anna Fiske.

Into the night with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Mona B. Riise.

The Pink Line: Queer rights around the world.

Dear mum and dad– Margreth Olin in conversation with Marte Spurkland.

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Michael Opara on love in a time of violence.

Hamsun in sámi.

Einar Økland in conversation with Sverre Tusvik about a life's work in the
art of collecting.
Norwegian championship in slam.

Norwegian championship in slam.

Felipe Celesia on digging up the truth.

The world on Saturday.

Solplomme.

Photographer: Eivind Senneset







