This film is being shown through the cooperation of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C and the Norwegian Film Institute.

Titina is a 2022 Norwegian Belgium animated feature film, loosely inspired by real events and deals with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Italian engineer Umberto Nobile’s 1926 journey over the North Pole, on the airship “Norge”. The main character, Titina, is Umberto Nobile’s dog, a terrier. The film also contains documentaries footage and stills from the 1920s.

Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile enjoys a quiet life with his beloved dog Titina, whom he rescued from the streets of Rome. One day, Nobile is contacted by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who wants to order an airship to conquer the North Pole. Nobile is quickly taken with the idea, so Amundsen, Nobile and Titina embark on an expedition to the last undiscovered place on Earth. Their quest is successful but, in the aftermath, the two men start to quarrel over the glory.

Ttina is crafted as a traditional animated film, meaning that each frame of the film is drawn by hand. The film is made up of roughly 94.000 hand drawn images, and consists of 4380 seconds of animation. The animation process goes through four stages: rough animation, clean up animation, ‘in-betweening’ and coloring, and on average it takes two days to complete one second of animation. The 2D animation in Titina was drawn digitally, using Toon Boom Harmony. The film also incorporates documentary images of real life expeditions that took place in 1926 and 1928. The majority of these clips are taken from the 90 minute documentary “The Airship Norge’s Flight Across the Arctic Ocean” (1926).

The film’s audio is in Norwegian with English subtitles.

This film is recommended for children over 6 years of age.

The film was nominated for the 2023 Amanda Award in the categories Best Children’s Film and Best Original Music