Alma (Helene Bergsholm), age 15, lives in the desolate town of Skoddeheimen, a place anyone who grew up in rural Vermont will instantly recognize as death to all teenagers’ spirits. She opens the film ...

"Turn Me On, Dammit!" is a coming-of-age story focusing on 15-year old Alma and her blossoming sexuality. The film was directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. Video courtesy of New Yorker Films.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. From left: Malin Bjorhovde, Helene Bergsholm and Beate Stofring in "Turn Me On, Dammit!" New Yorker Films photo Alma (Helene ...

I can't express how difficult it was to come up with a non-exploitative headline for this story. The fact is, it's difficult to sum up the plot of Turn Me On, Dammit! without at some point using the ...

Venerable New Yorker Films is back in the indie distribution game. Their next 2012 entry is Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s sexually frank 76-minute coming-of-age comedy, “Turn Me On, Dammit!,” laced with ...

Fifteen-year-old Alma just might be the horniest person in Norway. She rings up exorbitant phone sex bills when her mom, a single parent, is out of the house. And she rides rolls of coins when she ...

Set in the Norwegian boonies, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s debut feature (based on Olaug Nilssen’s 2005 novel) introduces its 15-year-old protagonist Alma (Helene Bergsholm) with her hand down her pants ...

A frank portrayal of adolescent eroticism, female division, which seldom gets portrayed onscreen at all, much less at the affectionately candid level explored here, the film is set in a ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...

More stories by Nigel M. What’s Next: “I’m writing my next script, which is an original idea,” Jacobsen told Indiewire from Norway. “It’s a tragic comic love story about people trying to be grownups.