Film and TV incentive in Norway
Norway runs the Norwegian Film Production Incentive: a selective fund worth Up to 25%. A jury or committee decides, so it is not an entitlement. Budget for the possibility that the answer is no, and for the rounds that decide when you can apply.
The numbers
- Scheme
- Norwegian Film Production Incentive
- Type
- Selective fund
- Headline rate
- Up to 25%
- Minimum local spend
- NOK 25m feature budget or NOK 10m per drama series episode (NOK 10m for a documentary feature, NOK 5m per documentary series episode); at least NOK 4m Norwegian spend and 30% non-Norwegian financing
- Cap per project
- Set per project by the annual award (NOK 84.7m across five projects in 2026: one feature and four drama series)
- Funding
- Selective One competitive round a year, heavily oversubscribed; the 2027 round is expected to open in June with a deadline in November
- Paid
- After completion, in NOK
- Foreign spend qualifies
- No
- Currency
- NOK
What this means for the cashflow
A committee picks the projects. Qualifying is not the same as receiving. The production carries the gap until the money arrives, and that is a financing question rather than a budget line.
When it pays: After completion, in NOK.
Our assumption in the comparison: Assumes the project is selected; only five projects were funded in 2026
The detail
Ranked selection against a small annual envelope: 18 applicants asked for NOK 288m in 2026 and five were funded. Requires a Norwegian company or a branch of an EEA or UK company. Parliament has asked for a more competitive scheme from 2027.
What you have to submit
Application requirements, Norwegian Film Institute. No template: the NFI portal asks for the total production budget and a separate budget for the Norwegian spend in your own format, plus an auditor's statement on the NFI template at the end.
Building the budget first? Use the free film budget template or the Budget Builder, then map it onto whatever the fund asks for.
How it compares
Counted on the best rate a production can reach after tax, Norway sits at number 24 of the 32 European schemes we track (25%). Work out the net value on your own spend, side by side with up to two other countries, in the incentive comparison.
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Other selective fund schemes
- Luxembourg No automatic rate (selective)
- Switzerland 20% (40% for minority co-productions and technical costs)
Shooting there
We list 35 places to shoot in Norway and 14 studios, production companies and post houses, each checked on its own site.
Source
Figures taken from Norwegian Film Commission and checked on 2026-09-05. Incentives change: confirm the current terms with the fund before you commit a budget to them.
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