Chasing Berlusconi

Running time: 82 mins

Berlusconi thunders down the home stretch… A down-on-his-luck harness racer, Bjarte Lem, gets entangled with the wrong crowd in this madcap Norwegian comedy. Previously, a star in his field, but now a little older, he turns to fixing race odds in order to pay back his wife's enormous debt to a pair of shady Finnish loan sharks. Hilarity ensues when he hires a pair of blockheads to do his dirty work. Their plan goes awry when the prizewinning horse is kidnapped. This unconventional and riotously entertaining film from the director of King Curling (2012 Cinequest Audience Award Winner for Best Feature) will make you root for this unlikely hero. With its cast of bizarre characters, Chasing Berlusconi succeeds brilliantly in making the audience laugh in unison. - Nina Zheng