“Oslo, August 31st is perhaps the most painful installment of Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy. Avoiding the cheap clichés of films about addiction, the director focuses on the psychological aftermath of recovery: shame, boredom, and the haunting weight of lost time. Trier meticulously captures the light in a café window or the distant sound of a party, as if the city itself were a character in mourning. It is a masterpiece of contemporary Scandinavian cinema – intellectual and emotionally devastating.  (Programme curator Karolis Žukas)