Film and TV locations in Norway
35 places to shoot in Norway: 9 theatres, arenas and venues, 6 transport and infrastructure locations, 4 studios and backlots and 16 more. 12 have a photo and 6 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Norway pays back
Norway runs the Norwegian Film Production Incentive, worth Up to 25% as a selective fund. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 14 companies we list in Norway.
Regions
- Vestland 9
- Oslo 5
- Telemark 5
And single locations in 11 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Theatres, arenas and venues in Norway 9
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 9 on their own page.
Kilden Performing Arts Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
A waterfront performing arts centre on Odderoya in Kristiansand, housing a theatre, concert hall and opera under one curved wooden roof.
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Sentralen
Theatre, arena & venue
A former bank building in central Oslo converted into a cultural and event house with about 30 rentable rooms, including a grand hall that was once the bank's customer hall.
Capacity: 1000 · About 30 venues from small meeting rooms to Marmorsalen for up to 1,000 people, former bank vaults, event recording and streaming services
Hardangerbadet
Theatre, arena & venue
An indoor swimming pool in Oystese with floor to ceiling windows over the Hardangerfjord, listed as a filming location by the Norwegian Film Commission.
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Hjeltefjorden Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
An indoor swimming pool at Rong near Bergen with a timber-lined vaulted ceiling and large windows, listed in the national film commission's location catalogue.
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Nordnes Sjobad
Theatre, arena & venue
A heated outdoor seawater pool beside Bergen's harbour at Nordnes, listed in the national film commission's location catalogue for a region that has hosted Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Succession.
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Odda Public Swimming Pool
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor municipal swimming pool in the former industrial town of Odda at the head of the Sørfjord, run as a public bathhouse with scheduled sessions for the local community.
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Sagene Folkebad
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor public bathhouse from 1899 in late-historicist style beside the Akerselva river, with arched windows and a period stair hall, still operating as a pool and rehabilitation facility.
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Stavanger Swimming Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal indoor pool completed in 1971 next to Stavanger city hall, built in exposed concrete with a 25-metre pool, diving tower and separate children's pool.
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Vestkantbadet Sommerro
Theatre, arena & venue
An Art Deco indoor swimming pool with mosaic murals inside the redeveloped Sommerro complex in central Oslo, listed as an interior filming location by the Norwegian Film Commission.
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Transport and infrastructure in Norway 6
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. Transport and infrastructure across Europe.
Atlantic Ocean Road
Transport & infrastructure
Eight-kilometre stretch of County Road 64 hopping between skerries on a chain of bridges, including the curved Storseisundet Bridge, exposed to open sea on both sides.
Seen in: No Time to Die (2021)
Rjukan Station
Transport & infrastructure
A yellow wooden railway station with vintage carriages in the Rjukan industrial heritage town, listed in the national film commission's location catalogue as a period Scandinavian station setting.
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Skien Airport, Geiteryggen
Transport & infrastructure
A regional airport southwest of Skien with a single runway and a 1960s-era terminal, still active for scheduled and general aviation in the Grenland area.
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Alesund Harbour
Transport & infrastructure
The working harbour of a Norwegian coastal town rebuilt in Art Nouveau style after an 1904 fire, listed in the national film commission's location catalogue for its mix of historic architecture and modern port infrastructure.
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Ballstad Harbour
Transport & infrastructure
A working fishing harbour on the Lofoten islands with steep mountains rising straight from the sea, listed in the national film commission's location catalogue and used for part of a 2016 Hollywood feature.
Seen in: Downsizing (2016)
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Floibanen Funicular
Transport & infrastructure
A funicular railway climbing 302 metres from Bergen's city centre to the summit of Mount Floyen, running two carriages on an 848 metre track through forest.
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Film studios and backlots in Norway 4
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. Film studios and backlots across Europe.
Dagslys Studios
Studio & backlot
Five purpose-built stages from 81 to 500 square metres in Nydalen, Oslo, with lighting and grip rental, workshops, props storage and costume and makeup rooms in the same building.
Seen in: Amundsen (2019)
Studio 1: 500 m2, 28 x 18 m, 9.7 m high, white molton and chroma key wall curtains, acoustically adapted for sound recording. Studio 2: 211 m2, 17.6 x...
FilmCamp
Studio & backlot
A production hub in a former military base at Overbygd in Malselv, with sound stages, offices, accommodation and catering used as a base for shoots across the Arctic landscape of Troms.
Seen in: The River (2017), Outlier (2020)
Studio building of 1,750 m2 in total. The soundproofed part measures 29 x 26.5 m, 780 m2, with a soundproofed floor and ceiling and molton on all...
Filmparken
Studio & backlot
A film and TV production site in Jar outside Oslo that has hosted continuous film production since 1935, with three sound stages, a smaller studio and a costume rental department.
Three large studios plus one smaller studio, two of them fully soundproofed. Studio A has 23 lighting hoists and a pool of 4 x 6 m and 1.8 m deep that...
Storyline Studios (Studio C)
Studio & backlot
A 427m2 sound stage at the Filmparken complex in Jar near Oslo, with a 5.4m ceiling, an infinity cyc wall, a greenscreen floor and an Unreal Engine virtual production pipeline.
427m2 stage, 5.4m ceiling height with 12 lighting grid lifts, 360-degree cyc/infinity wall, greenscreen walls and floor, kitchen, make-up area, client...
Industrial and derelict locations in Norway 4
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. Industrial and derelict locations across Europe.
Kunstsilo
Industrial & derelict
A 1935 grain silo on Kristiansand's harbour, converted into an art museum where the original concrete silo cells form circular galleries around a central atrium.
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Vemork
Industrial & derelict
Former hydroelectric and heavy-water plant on a gorge above Rjukan, with a monumental early-20th-century industrial facade, now a museum reached by cable car or an 8 km sabotage trail.
Seen in: Kampen om tungtvannet (1948), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kampen om tungtvannet / The Saboteurs (TV series, 2015)
Saheim Power Station
Industrial & derelict
A monumental early 20th-century hydroelectric power station in Rjukan with tall arched windows set against the mountainside.
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The Plus (Vestre)
Industrial & derelict
A furniture factory and visitor centre near the Swedish border, built as a cross-shaped stack of gabled volumes combining working production floors with public exhibition space.
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Churches and monasteries in Norway 3
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Lyse Abbey
Church & monastery
The moss covered ruins of a medieval monastery near Bergen, with stone arches and columns around a grass courtyard, listed as a historic filming location by the Western Norway Film Commission.
Seen in: Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Black Widow, Succession (productions cited for Western Norway generally)
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Vinje Church
Church & monastery
Wooden cross-shaped parish church built in 1796 in the rural Vinje valley, seating around 225, with a painted interior altarpiece and carved benches from the 1930s.
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Hamar Cathedral Ruins (Domkirkeodden)
Church & monastery
Ruins of a medieval stone cathedral on a headland by Lake Mjøsa, enclosed since 1998 in a modern glass and steel protective dome, part of a wider open-air history museum site.
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Offices, schools and public buildings in Norway 3
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. Offices, schools and public buildings across Europe.
Hartvig Nissen School
Office, school & public building
Working upper secondary school building from 1899 in Oslo's Frogner district, a brick institutional building with classrooms and a courtyard used as the real setting for a teen drama series.
Seen in: Skam (2015-2017)
Realfagbygget, University of Bergen
Office, school & public building
A large brutalist science building on the University of Bergen's Nygardshoyden campus, built through the 1960s and 70s with long raw-concrete corridors and lecture halls.
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Sami Parliament of Norway (Sametinget)
Office, school & public building
The Sami Parliament's assembly building in Karasjok, a timber and birch-clad hall with a tepee-shaped debating chamber, seat of the elected body representing Norway's Sami population.
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Castles and estates in Norway 1
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Akershus Fortress
Castle & estate
Medieval castle on Oslo's harbour promontory, expanded into an 18th-century bastioned fortress, with a stone keep, cobbled courtyards and government reception rooms still in ceremonial use.
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Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Norway 1
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. Hospitals, prisons and institutions across Europe.
Bastøy Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
Low-security island prison in the Oslofjord run on an open, self-sufficient farming regime, with wooden former manor buildings alongside newer institutional blocks.
Seen in: King of Devil's Island (2010), Where to Invade Next (2015), Sicko (2007, DVD extras)
Palaces and landmarks in Norway 1
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Håkonshallen
Palace & landmark
Stone royal reception hall built in the 1250s inside Bergenhus fortress, rebuilt after a 1944 harbour explosion, with a vaulted timber-roofed great hall used for concerts and ceremonies.
Used both as a museum and as a venue for royal dinners, official events and concerts; has a museum shop and no food service on site; about a 3-minute...
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Villages and countryside in Norway 1
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.
Njardarheimr Viking Valley
Village & countryside
Reconstructed Viking-age settlement of turf-roofed timber longhouses and workshops at the head of Nærøyfjorden, built and staffed as a living-history village.
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Mountains and wilderness in Norway 1
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock)
Mountains & wilderness
Flat granite cliff ledge about 600 metres above Lysefjord, reached only by a four-kilometre mountain hiking trail.
Seen in: Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Historic towns and streets in Norway 1
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Roros Old Town
Historic town & street
A UNESCO-listed former copper-mining town of streets lined with tarred timber houses, with slag-heap and smelter backdrops largely unchanged since the 17th and 18th centuries.
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