Franciska Seifert Eliassen is a Norwegian filmmaker and environmental activist. She is currently working on the feature film The Last Spring, which will be released in cinemas in 2023, and which has also led to 4 Amanda nominations, including for best director and best female lead.

Franciska completed a BA at the Kabelvåg Film School in 2019. The Last Spring is her graduation project.

The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Young Jury Prize, and Special mention in the competition program. It has also been shown at the Lübeck Film Festival, Transilvania International Film Festival, and Tromsø International Film Festival, to name a few.

While Franciska was studying in Lofoten, she built a hut of earth and driftwood in the mountains where she lived for a year and a half during her studies. Now this hut is a place where people can stay for free to get closer to nature.

She has also made the film Blue Borders, about the Moria refugee camp. It was shown at the Autumn Exhibition in 2018 together with the pilot for The Last Spring.

Franciska has also studied environmental philosophy and interdisciplinary ecology at the University of Oslo. She is now working on an MA at the Oslo Academy of the Arts.

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⁠Franciska's Instagram⁠

⁠Gammen ⁠

⁠Björk: Sonic Symbolism⁠

⁠Rilke, Letters to a young poet⁠

⁠The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky⁠

⁠Natural farming⁠

⁠Xr ung⁠

⁠Woofing⁠

⁠Films for action ⁠

Vakkert arbeid ("Beautiful Work") is a podcast series in which Marte Vold talks to filmmakers about how they work, think and doubt in their work. She tries to get answers to questions she herself wonders about as a filmmaker: What is it that gives life to a film? How do you capture it? And how do you balance artistic, material and emotional aspects in the fringe zone between the art world and the commercial film industry?