Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

The eccentric sound artist Eirik Havnes is preparing his most ambitious project ever: A symphonic masterpiece with the nature as his orchestra.

A retired farmer, battling dementia and the loss of his wife, receives help from his son to realize that life on the farm is no longer what it used to be.

Classic Norwegian Comedy from the 1960's. The Capital City of Norway is changing for the alleged better after WWII, yet not everyone wants anything to change, Living in their own way, not willing to accept truth, free enterprise and each other, As a result they spend plenty of time inside prison...

Life as a prima ballerina over 30 is tough enough for Maiko when she decides to start a family....

Henrik Ibsen's famous drama from 1886. As formulated by the protagonist Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, which means that the traditional ruling classes renounce imposing their ideals on the rest of society. The play's immoral, or amoral, "free-thinking" heroine, Rebekka, sets out to undermine Rosmer's religious and political views because he is an influential person in society. Rebekka has not only renounced Christianity, but also its entire ethical system.

We meet some characters from Sandnes city, following them through different -- sometimes uncomfotable -- events. The dockworker with a burden on his heart; the girl who needs pills to make it through the day; a lonely man watching his parent's house; and a man wandering through the forest. At a glance the stories may seem disjointed, but a greater whole might take shape...

Her parents have gone on vacation and Sofia moves into her childhood home for the summer. She's struggling to connect with new people, and in the absence of her best friend she spends the summer alone.

Pål and Catherine would like to have a baby, but their efforts are hampered by bureaucracy.

When his wife suddenly begins to wander endlessly and unresponsive around a meadow on their farm, Sigurd is thrown into an absurd and heartbreaking struggle to bring her back – while his nine-year-old daughter slowly slips away from him, and the truth about their family threatens to tear them apart.

A story of the fear of losing a friend. While attending her friend's 50th birthday party, Turid realizes she is no longer her closest friend, so Turid starts playing games to make sure she’s noticed.

Rolf Jacobsen talks about poetry and reads his own poems.

A thought-provoking meeting between two men, a hen and the local train from Jessheim. A classic, humorous short film with a short and concise point. And the title is not randomly chosen to put it that way.

We follow a maternity group for a year. Parents and babies who are put together in groups of the health station and who meet at each other's home and eat lunch. Some of them have big plans. They will buy and sell property. Some are concerned about doing things right. Can babies eat cucumbers? What about cheese?

An aspiring writer in need of money gets himself involved in a drug deal gone bad.

Anna wakes up the day after a date, but things are not what you expect. Where can one seek help when society has several man-made barriers?

A party ends in horror as a teenage girl is shot by her boyfriend. Friends Zipp and Andreas flee from the scene, apparently just innocent witnesses to the crime. A lonely middle-aged woman named Irma is receiving mysterious phone calls at night. Two seemingly different stories, but soon their paths will cross and it can only end in tragedy - as the Devil holds the light.

Odins once trusted advisors, the ravens Huginn and Muninn are thrown out of the Gods realm of Aasgard and down to Midgard. In desperation, they decide to seek out Tor who is last seen touring Midgard with his sister Loki, and steal his hammer to use it to get back home. But the fierce jotuns led by the avengful Mime also want to get hold of the mighty hammer to avenge their defeat by the Gods.

Martin hits a cat while driving, and has to tell the owner of what he has done.

Little Oddemann uses every means available to find Jesus, including his slingshot. The film takes us to Norway in the late '30s, where we meet a series of burlesque and humorous characters, whose antics convince Oddemann that growing up may be a bad idea. Yet Oddemann finds there are certain rewards to being grown-up, such as partying and chasing women, that merit closer examination.

What stories can old films and photographs tell? A movie camera, projector and 4 reels of developed film belonging to painter Edvard Munch, were donated to the Munch museum in Oslo some years ago. This find, along with the painter's photographical self portraits, written notes and letters, set the stage for "the narrator" (Frank Robert) to set out on a journey throughout Europe in the footsteps of Munch. He wants to see like the great painter did. Little by little, "the narrator" is able to see for himself ...

Street musician Markus goes from town to town earning money on accordion for a fee. He becomes popular with the boys in the street and also with Vivian who becomes his girlfriend. One day one of the boys is so unlucky pushing the accordion into a rivere. This causes Markus to lose his livelihood, and with a sick mother his existence is put to the test. It takes 10 boys to do something about. They raise money by putting on a show in the theater and bringing two celebrities to the play.

Three brothers wish to surf waves no one has surfed before them. The answer is to go to Bjørnøya, the island next to the better known Spitsbergen. For two months they live on the island, self sufficient in food and equipment.

A moment of false bravado and some imaginative letters allow shy, anxiety-ridden, thirteen-year-old Markus to connect with a Hollywood star, but when she returns home to Norway she wants to meet the thirty-six-year-old millionaire she believes him to be...

Civil war-torn Mozambique, where international aid workers, rival mine clearance companies, and corrupt politicians clash in an ambitious and unusual crime drama. Mine clearance expert Johan Stensrud arrives to take over the job after Stein Halvorsen's accident. It quickly becomes clear to Johan that his predecessor was murdered, but no one cares about his suspicions. All he can do is start his own private investigation, while throwing himself into the work he is actually in Mozambique to do.

The film describes how resistance fighter Knut Magne Haugland operated an illegal telegraph station on the roof of the National Hospital in 1944 during World War II.

Odd is terrified of his head, until one day he falls in love with Gunn who is both fearless and happy in life. Odd’s life is turned upside down and soon he plunges into an adventure he would never have imagined and is freed from his worries in the most unexpected way.

This short film tells the story of a forbidden relationship between two young girls, a relationship that is inevitably torn apart by the tension surrounding them.

Exile - Never Mind Reality depicts a growing phenomenon: young people developing an obsession with online gaming (MMORPG). Emil (34) from Oslo, Daniel (16), Morten (14) and Rasmus (15) from Lillehammer are all completely hooked. This has had serious consequences for them and has led to them dropping school, friends or jobs. At the same time, gaming is fun and gives them a sense of mastery.

An experimental short film.

Konrad and Roger robs a bank, but shit happens when Konrad discovers that Linda works there...

Four young women who survived the atrocious right-wing terror attack at Utøya Island have chosen to continue their political engagement. They were all severely wounded, but had to deal with losing so many of their friends.

A struggling young boy finds himself in a challenging time of his life. Trying to overcome his past he pushes everyone else away for the fear of his own failure.

Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again.

12 year old Torgeir is dyslectic, and his best friend Asta is hearing disabled. Together they make up a fantasy world, when and his grandmother has told about kids set out in the woods back in old times.

A hand is pulling the emergency breaks on a train, and a young military recruit has his live all changed. No one can answer a girl's question in court. What colour are dreams? A gathering of destinies. Can anyone answer why things happen?

30-year-old Ola lives in the small Norwegian village of Vidaråsen, where the 150 residents are a fine mix of people with and without disabilities. A community living a slow-paced life in harmony with nature and values such as empathy, respect and interdependence. Ola, who has an intellectual disability, spends his days in the village, working in the workshop, pulling carrots from the ground and chatting for hours with his best friend, Lasse, who lives in the village. The conversations and cordial friendship are a highlight of Ola's daily life, but in the background, there's always the threat of Lasse getting fed up with his work or moving back to Denmark.

In Rørland in the South of Norway the ship monger's daughter is in love with her childhood friend salve to her father's dislike. Salve goes out at sea and misses her, but get no answers to his letters from abroad.

Johnny is a photographer, he is also a rapist and killer, and suffers from sleep-paralysis. A dead girl tries to kill him in his dreams, or are the dreams in fact reality?

A 3-year-old girl and her family's long journey from a Greek refugee centre to Uppsala.

A portrait of Norwegian poet Odd Børretzen in his own words, featuring musical highlights from Børretzen's work with musicians Alf Cranner and Lars Martin Myhre.

A door-to-door salesman tries to sell the "Super Madsen" multi-function housekeeping appliance to a series of housewives at a block of flats. The eleventh in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".

An Israeli woman arrives in Oslo to give a lecture at the University. She meets a middle-aged journalist who takes her on a sightseeing tour in Munch's footsteps, a journey that develops into a love story.

11 JUNE 2013 is one hundred years since Norwegian women got full voting rights on an equal basis with men. Norway was among the first countries in the world to introduce universal suffrage for both women and men. The work for universal suffrage for women went on for many years and was an issue that many people got involved in. The Voting Rights Committee has chosen to highlight four women who played a decisive role in the suffrage issue.

When an alarm goes off aboard Rob’s spaceship, he has to determine what’s causing it.

The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, the Azores, Beijing and Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various film formats.

Young student Steffen Berg finds it difficult to adapt to society's laws and rules. After dropping out of medical school, he starts working in a shop to support his family, together with his brother Jørgen and sister Gerda, and to keep his mother out of a nursing home. One of Steffen's friends is going to America with his wife and needs money. Steffen takes 500 kroner from the store's cash register. The next day, there is an audit and Steffen's theft is discovered.

Little Grey Fergie has settled in on his life on the farm, but sometimes he feels lonely as the only machine. One day a random event brings the metal scarecrow to life and gives Fergie a new friend.

A six year old boy runs away from home with the family's big dog, a St. Berhard, who the grown ups wants to put down.

A personal story based on director Irasj Asanti's childhood and journey from Iran to Norway. The film is about two children's experience of fleeing their war-torn homeland.

Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.

German businessman Carsten Neuer travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some Norwegian poems by Tarjei Vesaas into Chinese, a project of his late wife. He hires Niko, a down-on-his-luck tour guide, to drive him to the poet's home and places of inspiration to stimulate his own translation. On the road, the ghost of Carsten's wife appears to him, while Niko struggles with the sudden consequences of his girlfriend's pregnancy. On this journey, two very different men come to realize the transforming power of love, the limits of language, and the human need for friendship.

Sara experiences another woman's orgasm and gets a new view on life.

Twenty-year-old Thomas Lindgren gets out of a youth rehab clinic, after being falsely accused of raping his ex-girlfriend's younger sister. He is looking forward to a new life and the summer in Oslo with his friends - But soon, he finds himself beaten, tied up and held hostage by the victims father who is desperate to find the truth.

The schools are in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Lilly (10) must stay at home and take care of her drunk mother. When the bad girl from class sees what’s going on at her house, Lilly thinks her secret is in danger. But sometimes help can come from where you least expect it.

Recorded live at the Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand, Norway, this concert features 17 of Rolf Løvland and Fionnuala Sherry’s greatest hits including “You Raise Me Up” – made famous in the States by Josh Groban; and “Nocturne” – the song that launched their career with a victory at the Eurovision Song Contest on 1995. The event celebrates the Norwegian-Irish duo’s two decade career that includes eight studio albums with sales in excess of 5 million copies. The concert features the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra along with special guest artists such as Ole Edvard Antonsen, Tracey Campbell, Cathrine Iversen and Espen Grjotheim.

The life of Maximo Guillermo "Max" Manus, a Norwegian resistance fighter, before and after World War II.