The MIRAGE Film Festival is a year-round initiative and international film festival dedicated to the art of cinema and the craft of filmmaking in Oslo, Norway.^[1]

Set in October, the festival presents a curated selection of films that push the boundaries of cinema; including films awarded at major festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, and CPH:DOX.

MIRAGE Professionals is the festival's industry branch and all about the craft and process of filmmaking, with a special focus on creating a hub in Oslo for the professionals behind the collaborative art of cinema— editors, cinematographers, sound designers, filmmakers, and all the creatives.

Each year, the festival hands out its acclaimed MIRAGE Sculpture Award for Editing, Cinematography, Sound Design, and Directing.

A one-person jury decides the award as a recognition from one artist to the other.

Filmmakers who have participated to the event include Victor Kossakovsky, Payal Kapadia, Albert Serra, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, Tsai Ming-liang, Emilija Škarnulytė, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor.^[2]

• The Damned (Roberto Minervini, MIRAGE Award for Best Directing)

• The Landscape and the Fury (Stefan Sick, MIRAGE Award for Best Cinematography)
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Rik Chaubet, MIRAGE Award for Best Editing)
• A Fidai Film (Attila Faravelli, Jochen Jezussek, Simon Fisher Turner, MIRAGE Award for Best Sound)

• Victor Kossakovsky, Jury for Directing
• Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, Jury for Cinematography
• Ollie Huddleston, Jury for Editing
• Nicolas Becker, Jury for Sound Design

• A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia, MIRAGE Award for Best Directing)
• Rojek (best cinematography)