Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

An unfaithful servant in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate tries to sell top secret information to German industry leaders. Egon has a plan to earn money on the transaction himself.

Multiple people learn they're about to witness the last sunrise in history.

When a popular doctor, leading the job to get a hospital to town, celebrates his 60th birthday there's a big party. But a new doctor discovers malpractice. But when the doctor is ill with a bad appendix, the tables are turned.

Lie to me is a documentary about lies, hope and greed. When OneCoin was launched as "the bitcoin killer" in 2014, it was promised gold and green forests. Anyone could get rich if they invested. But OneCoin was not a new financial revolution. It wasn't even a cryptocurrency. OneCoin turned out to be the world's biggest crypto scam, and the man who exposed it all was Norwegian Bjorn Bjercke. Yet the fraud continues. How is that possible?

The Øyens' leave their 5 year old daughter to the babysitter, who later that night receives some mystical phone calls.

Amindas verden is a poetic portrait of a lonely old woman who lives alone on an abandoned farm somewhere on the coast of Trøndelag. The film strictly adheres to an observational approach, capturing what happens without interfering with her daily routine.

Meet a group of people who despite age differences and geography have in common that they live in a dying culture: the Norwegian coastal culture.

What is the answer to the riddle. What made the famous author, nobel prize winner, Knut Hamsun to support Hitler? 1945. The famous writer Knut Hamsun looks back to his youth., and compares his life with two of his works "Hunger" and "Mysteries".

Kids Cup is a character driven coming-of-age family film from the world´s largest sports tournament for kids. We dive into a teenage universe and follow 13-14 year olds from different parts of the world, competing at the football tournament, Norway Cup, in Oslo.

A youthful drama about a young guy and his struggles with his hatred of his father. Not even a relationship with a good-looking girl seems to cool his emotions.

The eight kids Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten has moved with their parents and grandmother from the tiny apartment in the city to a cozy, red house in the forest. Here there is plenty of room for everyone to play, and having grandmother around proves to be useful. She watches the kids, sells waffles to passing ski-goers, and mediates between her own local knights and the attacking Indians from Tiriltoppen.

The film is based on the story The Emperor Felix written by Gustav Aagaard, rewritten for the film by Gunnar Nilsen-Vig, who also photographed the film. Rasmus Breistein directed the film.

David Lynch in Oslo.

After a bed bug infestation at her shared flat, Emilie becomes temporarily homeless. Rejecting every offer of help out of pride and fear of rejection, she instead gets entangled with the other so-called parasites of society.

A woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.

A television-team makes a surprise visit to an olympic athlete's grandmother. They want to capture her reaction just as her grandson crosses the finish line. Unfortunately, the woman is totally uninterested in sports, and doesn't even have a TV. The interview is a bust, but the team discovers something else that may be the scoop they have been looking for.

A hotel roomm tells its story: people passing through, drama, a bank robbery, loneliness and death.

For many years, Terje Svahberg saved up to buy a cabin. But then something happened, suddenly and unexpectedly. He became obsessed with boats. And before anyone really knew what was happening, he had made transactions that made him the proud owner of a luxury boat...and everything that goes with it.

The confused old age home patient Nils creates a bond with the new substitute Karen, but is she able to help him with his last wish?

Filmed in Karasjok, Norway - 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, BBC Four rigs a traditional reindeer sleigh with a fixed camera for a magical journey across the frozen wilderness of the Arctic. Following the path of an ancient postal route, the ride captures the traditional world of the Sami people who are indigenous to northern Scandinavia and for whom reindeer herding remains a way of life. Deliberately unhurried, the rhythmic pace of the reindeer guides us along an epic two-hour trip that takes us over undulating snowy hills, through birch forests, across a frozen lake and past traditional Sami settlements.

In the shadow of his parents' cold relationship, Kasper feels like a stranger in his own home. When a mysterious girl lures him on an adventure, he decides to escape.

The film tells the story of an ambitious young man, Tom, who loves Grete, daughter of the manager of the national railroads; but Grete's father prefers Lund, an upright and uptight army officer. To prove his worth, Tom organizes a daring robbery of the nightly Bergen Express in the hopes of outwitting his rival, who's been assigned to track down the thieves.

Tanya is almost sixteen and angry. She is in love with Henrik and unhappy. Her mother has decided they're moving the very same day Tanya gets the job as drummer in Henrik's band, Limbo. It really isn't much fun having to leave behind everything you care about. Nor is it much fun having a mother who keeps on changing her boyfriends. And who doesn't understand that sitting in a coffee bar in town with friends is infinitely better than rummaging about in a field in the country. In fact it just is no good being 16 and being forced to abandon the things that really matter in life - love, friends and music. Unless you can find a way to run away from it all. But that takes courage. And money. Tanya gets a little less angry the day Lisbeth gives her a ride. Lisbeth who's always running around on her moped. And is a good laugh. Lisbeth who's got a boyfriend - Iver. Tanya thinks. Tanya who's only got her sheep dog Floyd. And her little brother Joachim. She thinks.

This is the third documentary of Norwegian singer AURORA. It will follow the production of her second album. Filmed in La Fabrique, France.

Freddy is going on one last camping trip with his closest classmates. Before the trip, he finds a box with letters that claim to tell the future. The message is clear: One of his friends is going to kill him.

His companion is solitude at the sea, and his moral compass is his faith. Hassan's entire worldview is challenged as the refugee crisis affects this coastal village. All individuals close to him will be affected by the decisions he makes.

When Kaptein Sabeltann and his men land on the mysterious island Gral, they are warned by the sorceress Miriam av Gral, that the lord of the island, Greven av Gral (the Count of Gral), is cruel and mad, and would like to replace Kaptein Sabeltann as the king of the sea.

The film is a so-called "worker's film", which was made on behalf of the Workers' Information Association to motivate voters in the cities to vote for the Labor Party in the 1936 parliamentary elections.

Ine, at 25 years old, realizes she has grown into a life she hasn’t chosen herself. In an attempt to awaken both herself and her uninterested boyfriend Petter (26), she goes to a pole dancing class where she meets Rebecka (24) – a girl that is everything Ine isn’t. Through Rebecka, Ine gets a glimpse into a world she has been completely isolated from – a world where people fight for the freedom to be themselves completely unfiltered, and where colors and glitter steps into place for the grey, squared life she has been leading. Ine's fascination with Rebecka grows into something she soon wonders if is infatuation. But is it Rebecka she is infatuated with, or is it her life?

A young girl becomes instantly famous after she catches the most average-sized fish in the world.

Short film version of the upcoming Norwegian feature-length film 'Sakura'.

Robin is a bit clumsy in life and struggles socially. When he finally gets a friend, Lilly, it becomes difficult for him to cope with the fact that his one friend has more friends than just him.

A small art academy in fused into a huge university as one out of many institutes. They have to follow all the university´s administrative procedures. But secretly, the students and staff decide to self organize as an independent art school. They create their own courses, programmes and leadership, secretly and without the university´s knowledge.

A small peaceful town in Norway. But forces other than peace and tolerance are brewing beneath the surface. It all begins with Martin, a teacher, accused of being gay. The rumor spreads and also hits his friends Kjærsti and Sara, who live together. The three are deviants in people's eyes, and threaten the image of reality. In the municipal administration, two corrupt officials use the rumor to hide their own dishonesty.

A classic from 1998. With the "original cast", Terje Formoe as Captain Sabertooth, Janne Formoe as Sunniva and Morten Usterud as Pinky. Fredrik Hognerud Træland plays Joachim, the kid who doesn't give up on his dream of the one and only King of the Sea.

Human? Machine?

The film was commissioned by the Workers' Information Association to motivate rural voters to vote.

Olav Astrup is a failed entrepreneur in his mid-twenties who has recently been refused contact with his newborn child. Without family or any form of social network, he turns to an eccentric gestalt therapist for guidance, and through their unconventional therapy sessions we get a glimpse into his innermost thoughts and feelings.

The summer of 2004, three teens are involved in a boat accident and an unknown girl ends up dead. Ten years later, the same group plus some others, travel to their summer cabin where the dark deeds of their past starts haunting them. Dangerous water skiis and a crazy person attacks them, and nobody knows why.

16 year old LP (Håkon Bolstad) has just graduated from junior high school. He lives in Oslo and he's the only-child to a middle-class couple. Wanting to get away from his parents he steals a sailboat, vaguely envisioning to look up some girl he once knew a bit down the Oslofjord. Not knowing how to sail he almost collides into a pier when the stunningly beautiful Line (Benedikte Lindbeck) rescues him. She jumps on board and joins LP on his journey. LP is sullen and introvert, however, the confident and well versed girl thaws him as they continue on their sunny escapade of the Oslofjord archipelago. Then LP's father (played by seasoned Norwegian leading actor Nils Ole Oftebro) appears and demands the end to the adventure. A battle of wills ensues between the equally stubborn father and his offspring. Neither has really learned to know the other, and Line becomes the catalyst which makes both realize new aspects about the other.

Blücher is a 1988 Norwegian thriller film directed by Oddvar Bull Tuhus, starring Helge Jordal, Frank Krog and Hege Schøyen. Two North Sea divers who have recently been fired plan to vindicate themselves by a pioneer expedition to the wreckage of the German cruiser Blücher, at the bottom of the Oslofjord. The expedition soon becomes entangled in political intrigues.

Kammermagi was recorded in 2011 during the Risør Chamber Music Festival and allows you to experience world-famous musicians such as Leif Ove Andsnes and Henning Kraggerud. The old wooden church, which is the music festival's main arena, offers a completely unique acoustic experience, you can not get closer to the music.

A Norwegian mistaken identity comedy. At Krogheby Manor, owned by the Vinkelkrogh family, four ghosts reside. Per Aabel plays Johnny Vinkelkrogh, who visits his aunt Clementine. He happens to look exactly like one of the ghosts, and confusion ensues when the two are mistaken for each other.

Short of breath describes a meeting between two people both lost in their own ways.

Anton is a teenage boy living with his father in the Norwegian countryside. When his father's mental health deteriorates, the local physician suggests that Anton's mother, who left them both many years ago, should take care of him. Anton, who resents his mother, struggles against the authority of his elders and also tries to help out an old neighbor and friend.

In the not-so-distant past, somewhere in northern Norway. The main character is Margit, an orphaned young girl. She has been sent to live on the farm of Krestian and Johanna, where we also find the farmhand Bæla, a physical giant but mentally still a child. Krestian and Simon, his brother, are constantly fighting with each other, and Simon tempts Bæla with "a thousand kroner" to get him to "beat the crap out of Krestian." Margit senses that something is about to happen and tries to prevent Bæla from becoming a murderer. Margit's surroundings include the helpless Vavva, the consumptive and malicious young boy Arild, and Magdalena, who has entrusted her life to the Lord.

Heng lives with his close knit deeply Buddhist family in rural Cambodia, who work hard struggling as farmers. At 6, he lost both his arms in a landmine explosion. Now, as a teenager hanging with the wrong crowd, and no future at the farm, his mother sends him to his older brother, Chana, who makes romantic music videos in the bustling city of Phnom Penh. Here, with a bossy brother, amid a So-Me, “wanna-be” culture, Heng must make it. A film about a family who are living the consequences of war which ended decades ago.

The unemployed performance artist Gritt struggles to make sense, as she moves below the successful surface of Oslo.

Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?

Making Sense Together investigates the relationship between power and powerlessness in psychiatric health care. The film is a hybrid, combining documentary with fictional elements.

About eviction policy. The film is based on Sørøya in Finnmark.

After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal liberationists find themselves under a vicious attack by the very groups they had expected the least trouble from: other (more moderate) animal liberation groups. At the instigation of these more moderate groups, the only rich boy in the group is arrested, and he becomes subject to a smear campaign which has him bedding all the women in the group - a particularly damaging libel, because one of the girls is underage. This is the first film to be directed by Thomas Robsahm, the Norwegian son of the great Italian actor, Ugo Tognazzi (now deceased)

Kurdish refugee, Renas, is living in the very north of Norway. In a remote desolate house. In the middle of snowy nowhere. But soon his special princess, Fermesk, will be joining him. Though the couple has never met, they have already fallen in love from looking at each other's photographs and talking on the phone. Their families have performed a wedding ceremony back home in Iraq, and Fermesk is put on a plane. The first encounter at the airport does not live up to their expectations, however. Neither looks very much like their flattering photos would indicate. Fermesk is now a much bigger woman, and Renas isn't quite the handsome young man anymore.

When Idunn stays home alone for the first time, her brother Even has big plans for her. Even thinks that his sister is the biggest sissy on the planet. This ordinary winter day turns out to be the scariest day in Idunns life, but are things as scary as they seem? And who is really the biggest sissy?

Bygdøy is the Peninsula in Oslo that has always been a place of residence for kings and clergy people. Now it has become a recreation area for Oslo's inhabitants, with museums, restaurants, beaches, and many other leisure and entertainment opportunities. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.