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25 August 2026 — PRIX EUROPA
We Are Stardust Nominated for PRIX EUROPA 2026
We Are Stardust has been nominated in the Video Documentary category at PRIX EUROPA 2026, Europe's leading cross-media awards for broadcast and online productions. The film was selected from more than 300 documentaries submitted from across the continent. PRIX EUROPA opens on 11 October at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, with the winners announced at the Awards Ceremony on Friday 16 October 2026.
23 August 2026 — God Morgen Norge — TV 2
We Are Stardust on God Morgen Norge
Jon Larsen brought his stardust to the God Morgen Norge sofa, micrometeorite samples and all: the jazz musician who set his international career aside to hunt cosmic dust in the gutter, was dismissed by researchers around the world, and went on to prove them wrong. Broadcast on Sunday 23 August 2026, the week of the film's Norwegian premiere in Haugesund.
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21 August 2026 — Aftenposten & A-magasinet
The Man Who Found Stardust and the Woman Who Tricked Death
A-magasinet gives its cover story to We Are Stardust: Jon Larsen's hunt for micrometeorites across the rooftops of Oslo, and the decade Elisabeth Rasmussen spent filming it — a decade in which she was told her own illness would kill her. Neither of them gave up. The feature also ran on the front page of Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper. Words by Anton Lier, photographs by Stig B. Hansen.
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10 August 2026 — Rushprint
Life Happens While You Film
Edy Poppy talks to Elisabeth Rasmussen for Rushprint about the ten years behind We Are Stardust — how a film about a jazz musician hunting stardust in the gutter grew into something about Sámi heritage, mortality and the director's own life, and how the story kept rewriting itself while the camera was still running.
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14 July 2026 — Nordlys
After Ten Years the Film Is Finally Ready
Nordlys gives its front page to We Are Stardust: ten years in the making, and partway through, director Elisabeth Rasmussen was told she was going to die. Madeleine Skogvik reports on the film, the diagnosis, and finishing what she started.
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11 July 2026 — iTromsø
iTromsø — We Are Stardust
"It felt much safer to know that we are all made of material that comes from the stars — and that new material will form from mine."
3 June 2026 — The Norwegian International Film Festival – Haugesund
Norwegian Premiere at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund
We Are Stardust will have its Norwegian premiere at the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (22–28 August 2026), following the film's international premiere in Thessaloniki and Nordic premiere at CPH:DOX. The festival also confirms the film is approved for European Film Awards consideration and has sold to NRK and DR.
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2 June 2026 — Rushprint
Stardust for Haugesund — Rushprint
"NASA had spent over 200 million dollars on a mission that brought back around one milligram of stardust from space. Then along comes Jon with a broom, a magnet and a couple of hundred dollars' worth of equipment — and finds stardust on the rooftops of NASA's own buildings, right in front of the researchers' eyes. It was hard not to see the irony." — Elisabeth Rasmussen
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7 April 2026 — Eye for Film
Review: We Are Stardust — Eye for Film
"Rasmussen understands that what makes this quest cinematic is not merely its oddity, but its scale."
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4 April 2026 — Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat — We Are Stardust
"A philosophical and visual meditation on humanity's relationship with the universe."
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21 March 2026 — Politiken
Politiken — We Are Stardust
"A surprising, beautiful, and deeply moving documentary that made audiences laugh and cry along the way."
14 March 2026 — Screen Daily
Review: We Are Stardust — Screen Daily
"Science, myth, music, art and philosophy all orbit around Jon Larsen, the magnetic heart of Elisabeth Rasmussen's absorbing, informative documentary."
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12 March 2026 — Eye for Film
Galaxy of Ideas — Eye for Film
"Rasmussen opens out her film – which premiered in competition at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival – to touch upon myth and even her own cancer experience. When we caught up with her in Thessaloniki, she recalled immediately falling in love with Larsen's story."
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10 March 2026 — Cineuropa
Review: We Are Stardust — Cineuropa
"We Are Stardust hits the mark not because it proves or disproves Larsen's claims, but because it celebrates the spirit of inquiry that drives both science and art."
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8 March 2026 — Η Καθημερινή / Kathimerini
Kathimerini — Full Page Feature on We Are Stardust
Greece's leading broadsheet Kathimerini dedicated a full page of its Arts & Letters documentary section to We Are Stardust, with journalist Ilias Magklinis exploring the film and Jon Larsen's quest to find micrometeorites in the urban environment, ahead of the film's world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
6 March 2026 — Business Doc Europe
Director Interview — Business Doc Europe
Business Doc Europe interviews director Elisabeth Rasmussen about We Are Stardust ahead of its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival and its selection for the Science section at CPH:DOX.
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5 March 2026 — Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
TIDF 2026 — Tickets On Sale
Tickets are now available for both screenings of We Are Stardust at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, including the world premiere on 9 March.
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27 February 2026 — Cineuropa
We Are Stardust — Exclusive Trailer
Cineuropa presents the exclusive trailer for We Are Stardust, the new documentary about Jon Larsen's extraordinary quest to find cosmic dust on Earth.
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3 March 2026 — CPH:DOX
CPH:DOX 2026 — Tickets On Sale
Tickets are now available for all three screenings of We Are Stardust at CPH:DOX, including the premiere at Empire on 15 March.
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