TERRY MCMAHON (Irish filmmaker), interviewed at Irish Film Berlin, on March 19th 2026:

«I don´t know whether you’ve seen the Norwegian filmmaker, what’s her name? Kristin… Vollset. She made a film called «Robin in the Hood». It might be the best short film I´ve ever seen in my f**king life - it’s a masterpiece. Here, it was wonderful. It´s one of those films where you sit there and you go «holy f**k», there is no precedent for this, there’s no agenda, there’s no politics behind it. It’s trying to understand the incomprehensible, frame by frame, moment by moment. It’s funny, it’s romantic, it’s hilarious, it’s dark, it´s a powerhouse.»

BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - «Robin in the Hood» wins Best Norwegian Short Film, on October 22nd 2025:

The jury´s statement: «This year's winner took the jury - and the audience - by surprise, with a world full of originality, musicality, warmth and love. Unlike most things you´ve seen, and with an unconventional approach to economic inequality and what the film’s main characters feel is a dysfunctional system, the film invites the audience to ask questions about the world we live in - and what kind of world we want to live in. The jury got excited about by the filmmakers´ inspiring storytelling style, and the extraordinary fusion of fairytale and raw realism, gravity and humor. The award for Best Norwegian Short Film goes to «ROBIN IN THE HOOD»

GLEN HANSARD (Oscar-winning artist and composer) to the Norwegian Film Institute, on April 14th 2021:

«Every so often we encounter the real thing, an artist that´s toiling towards something significant, who works in a way that rings true. I believe that Kristin´s vision of Dublin, and her friendship with the overlooked and underserved communities of Dublin´s Liberties, shines a light at an angle that many of us miss. She sees something wonderful and alive in these friends she´s made, something that once seen is tonic for the soul.»

NOEL GALLAGHER talking about Vollset´s first short film «No Plan», on Matt Morgan´s podcast, April 27th 2022:

«Oh that was f**king, yeah that was amazing, wasn´t it? Oh it was a girl, she was like a viking, she´d ended up in Dublin, and she didn’t know anybody, but she befriended this gang of lads, didn’t she? And they rode horses through the streets of Dublin.

And she wrote this song, it´s f**king brilliant, have you still got that video, it´s amazing, that is moving, that is very, very moving. She goes through all the characters in this gang of these lads, and she´s found her tribe, hasn´t she? She´s like Scandinavian or something, yeah it´s great. And your listeners should watch it, it´s really f**king great.»

TØNSBERG FILM FESTIVAL - "Robin in the hood" wins the Jury Award for Best Film, on March 3rd 2026:

The jury´s statement: «We congratulate Kristin Vollset with the Tønsberg Film Festival’s Jury Award for Best Film 2026.

"Robin in the Hood" is wild and full of energy - a playful mix of musical and urban western. Again Vollset demonstrates her remarkable talent for combining music and film in a unique way. With access to a visually striking environment, the film lets us experience horses galloping through the back streets of Dublin, and creates a universe that is both raw, poetic and surprising.

An original and courageous film that made a strong impression on the jury.» - Tønsberg Film Festival.

JON INGE FALDALEN for Norwegian industry magazine RUSHPRINT, on October 24th 2025:

«Robin in the Hood» alongside «Sentimental Value» is this year´s best Norwegian film, according to Jon Inge Faldalen who also recommends «The Chair Company», «Stargate - a Christmas story», «Sorry, Baby» and «Nepobaby».

Dublin down. Double street singer Kristin Vollset - singing songs on the street, and about the street - impresses us greatly again with her new fairytale-like myth spinning fable, «Robin in the Hood», that won the prize for Best Norwegian Short Film under this year’s Bergen International Film Festival.

«You asked if I was here all alone, and I said probably», she sings in a telling way. For Vollset is definitely alone in the original, unique street genre she operates in. She is like a homing pigeon from another place, another time. A cooing bard.

Vollset - in the role of a kind of Maid Marian - hits and plucks rhythmically with her thumb and fingers on her guitar strings, like the sound of horse shoes galloping down the road. For the people. For coins. For herself, and for the Hood full of boys and horsemen, «just washing horses and drinking coke in the sunlight». Galloping bareback round the back streets. She sometimes loudly sings exactly what we see («tried to turn around, drove into the wall»), with artistic cronies in everything from Homer to musicals, to the Free Cinema-movement, and kitchen sink realism like «Kes» (Ken Loach, 1969) and John Smith´s «The Girls Chewing Up» (1976) - where a voice from a higher dimension instructs the documentary-like street images - and Bo Burnham´s «Inside» (2021).

And the story’s Robin with his hoodie on, joins in and starts singing halfway through - partake, partgive - about economic revolution, about food supply and housing, about freedom on the horse´s back. Freedom is the biggest of all the words in this word cloud. And historically and politically it’s still «the same old fight» - outside the law, with the people against the overlords - «to take back the forest». The sound of the horses gets softer out in the countryside, wheels and hooves through fields and forests, making their way to a self-sufficient, self-run farm, that opens its arms to this freewheeling horse community.

It´s probably easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but Vollset brews, taps and drinks her own Jameson in a dream song that is hauntingly beautiful, in the spirit of Nina Simone she cries «what it means to be free, yeah!» «Robin in the Hood» is, alongside «Sentimental Value», this year’s best Norwegian film.

BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - ”They can´t stop you” won the Jury Award for Best Music Video, in October 2020:

«This year's winner stands out for its unmistakable authenticity and raw energy. The video is both a call-to-arms and a slice-of-life documentary short that’s a testament to how music and creativity can strengthen communities and move people. The video elevates the clear, yet playful message of the song by capturing a local scene that feels both universal and urgent.»

FRANKIE GAFFNEY (Irish author), on Vollset´s first short film "No Plan", in Facebook post on May 28th 2020:

«Sometimes it takes an outsider's eye to see diamonds in the rough, and appreciate what's best about the inner-city. It's certainly not characterless 3 star hotels, overpriced student accommodation, or silicon valley tax exiles. We have a rich culture in Dublin, in terms of dialect, but also in terms of humour and spirit, and Kristin captures it like hardly anyone else. Hope this gets the recognition it deserves, too few domestic artists exploiting our complex heritage.»

EOIN BUTLER, journalist for THE IRISH TIMES, on short film «No Plan», January 25th 2017:

«This song has been doing the rounds online all week. But I'm including it anyway because, even if you've heard it before, No Plan is, by a country mile, the sweetest, most tenderly observed and heart-warming music video I've seen in a long time. Kristin Vollset is a street musician from Bergen, Norway, who fell in with a gang of teenage horse enthusiasts after crashing her van into their stable in inner city Dublin. The rapport she strikes up with her "Celtic warrior tribe" is the stuff of feelgood movies. Perhaps the song's most unlikely achievement, though, is rendering the vulgar expression "I'm gonna choke your chicken" in a context so funny and touching, it actually moved this jaded, emotionally stunted critic to tears. You'll have to watch the bloody thing to find out how she did that.»