A British-Norwegian couple who went off-grid with their family in the wilderness before suffering a tragedy have been featured in a moving new documentary.
Nik and Maria Payne lived an isolated life with their four children, home-schooling them in a self-sufficient home in a forest in Norway where they lived off the land.
They had no television in their property on a small farm – with the children instead encouraged to chop wood with an axe, raise animals and sell them for pocket money.
But Maria died of cancer aged 41 in 2019 – leaving Nik as a single parent to Ulv, three, Falk, six, Freja, nine, and Ronja, 15, Maria’s daughter from a previous relationship.
Now, their extraordinary life is being featured in an award-winning new documentary film called ‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ which is coming to UK cinemas from May 16.
The 84-minute movie by director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen has already won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival and Budapest Film Festival.
Nik and Maria Payne lived an isolated life with their four children in the Norwegian wilderness
Maria died of cancer aged 41 in 2019 – leaving Nik as a single parent to Ulv, three, Falk, six, Freja, nine, and Ronja, 15, Maria’s daughter from a previous relationship
A New Kind of Wilderness is out in UK cinemas from May 16
