Jens Dahle-Granli

A birdwatcher meets a mysterious stranger in a remote birdwatching tower. As the stranger's presence becomes more disturbing, the birdwatcher gets pulled into an unsettling experience.

We follow Renate, a boundary-pushing theater director who is fighting to keep her career alive. When she starts to encounter resistance, she takes extreme measures to fight her cause. But where is the line between artistic freedom and responsibility in creative art, and when is enough enough?

Formation is a coming-of-age story about self-realization in adolescence and explores the individual's ability to self-correct in the absence of an authoritarian external framework that says what you are allowed and not allowed to do.