The Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund

Haugesund runs two events in the same week. There is the public festival — a programme, tickets, audiences — and there is New Nordic Films, the Nordic co-production and finance market that has run alongside it since 1995, with accredited industry delegates, screenings that are not on public sale and a schedule the public should not see.

Keeping those separate while running them from one system is the requirement. An industry screening listed publicly is an error with commercial consequences; a market delegate who cannot find their own schedule is a different kind of failure.

The festival's main arena is Edda Kino, which also runs on the platform — so the festival programme and the venue's own cinema listing are the same infrastructure rather than two suppliers negotiating.

Running a cinema in the Nordics and weighing this up? The Norwegian International Film Festival’s site is built on the same platform you would be buying. It is described in full on the Norsk pages, and in Svenska and Dansk and Français and Español and العربية — including what it costs and why you do not have to replace your box office system to use it.