Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

The well off couple, William and Emma, attempt a couple swap, but in the heat of the moment everything goes horribly wrong for William.

A propaganda film about the beautiful country Norway, meant for tourists abroad.

A docudrama about the sisters Anne & Alet who killed several women with poison in the late 18th century. They were finally caught and judged to death by beheading.

The film is about the seemingly small, but extremely important steps children take in kindergarten to become big, empathetic people.

The story tells of the many misadventures, some comical, and trials and tribulations that Bør Børson, Jr. has to go through and endure in proving himself a citizen worthy enough to marry the squire's daughter.

Caught between the safety of a conventional relationship and her love for her sister, Amalie spirals into shame, secrecy and self-destruction as her fear of judgement takes hold.

A lone man’s ordinary life takes a surreal turn as strange and unexplainable events begin to unfold around him.

Ragnar Ulstein was the freedom fighter who did flee to England to join the resistance in 1941. After the war was over, he exchanged weapons with a pen and became journalist, writer and historian. Ragnar is telling his entire story.

A workaholic father is encouraged to spend more time with his daughter. It turns out to be harder than he would think.

Dunderland Valley, 1695. A young maiden is accused of witchcraft. Her persecutors end her life in the bottomless pits of the Djupkista Waters. In the years to follow, numerous horrendous events and tragedies strike the valley. In 2011, the young, aspiring theater director Laura arrives in the valley with an ensemble of Norway’s premier actors. They are soon made aware of the valley's dark and bloody history. Then the star actor disappears.

Two people wake up in the same bed after a night out. Pop star Alvin (18) does not remember a thing. Latifa (26) did not drink and remember everything. Through the course of the morning of anxiety and quarreling they challenge both each other and themselves. Perhaps they have more in common than they initially thought.

A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.

The Gang form The Dynamites. After winning a talent competition they are told by manager Pop-Johansen that the band will be huge in the U.S. But is he only after their prize money?

The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy is a gripping story about power struggle, failure, and the delicate balance between good and bad.

October Passed Me By is about the memory of an old love story that ended some time ago.

Three Sámi men travel to the capital of Norway. One of them is wearing gákti, the Sámi traditional costume, to attract Norwegian women. The second one believes it unethical to do this, and the third is bitter that he doesn't attract women when he wears the gákti. Indigenous Police is a Sámi short film told with humor and political sting. It is an identity satire about how people, both the Sámi and the majority population, consciously and unconsciously define what is the right way to be Sámi.

A young woman selling things online invites a male buyer into the apartment, only to discover that any opportunity to earn something is also a risk of loss.

Berta and Eiliv of over 80 years have been married for over 50 years and invite us into their lives and tell about their long life together.

Two friends find a working iPhone during the zombie apocalypse, but their longing to post pictures on Instagram soon turns them against each other.

A warm, dramatic story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run.

A young woman in search of love tries to figure out why she has a lot of stomach trouble, but instead gets sent to therapy.

Two estranged sisters reunite when the youngest shows up at her older sister cabin uninvited. The conversations that follow may unpack what have caused their split.

Three broke students try drinking in public to save money on alcohol.

Three artists, without any knowledge of ship building, construct a catamaran of garbage and fantasy - and sail from Kristiansand to Münster in Germany. Curating themselves into a high end art exhibition.

A young man goes on a journey to embrace his new identity.

A Swedish general is going to build an international ballet academy in the village of Tullingdal. But he faces a tricky problem: the village's finest snowmobile trail runs exactly where the academy is supposed to be built.

Set in Norway, Lykke Til is a story about struggling in a foreign land. Ann, who has moved to Norway, is facing obstacles on multiple fronts: visa, employment, cultural differences, racism and an unexpected pregnancy, which puts her relationship with her girlfriend in jeopardy, another secret hovering over the already strained relationship with her mother. Instead of trying to simply stay afloat, the worst person in the world now has to make a decision and reclaim her life. The director who also writes the script and plays the main role expresses through the short her own experience as a Chinese diaspora and creative talent living in Europe.

The unemployed and homeless orphan Bibbi, with background from jail and the street, but she is still very much herself. I jail she meets the rebel Elin, and the drunk driver Christina.

15-year-old Sofie has a secret that no one will ever know, as she puts on her make-up she reflects on what happened.

A group of friends travel abroad to party, but their holiday takes a turn for the worse.

A young girl, Linnea is surrounded by mysterious happenings and a ghost who appears in her dreams. In her class, Thomas, an innocent boy with sense of humor. Maybe he's the salvation.

Two brothers isolated on a remote island during a viral outbreak discover a drifting boat heading their way.

A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.

Two elves venture into the wilderness to explore the infamous ruins of Aldemore and the world of Aerindor. The road forces them to explore their friendship and ideologies, and how unsophisticated curiosity can argue with maturity. When met with danger, impulsive choices might lead them to endanger a prophesy of the end times at the hands of a heinous cult.

In the remote Norwegian woods, a filmmaker with a bleeding gut, a lovesick farmer, a lumberjack with a heart condition, and a depressed elk-hunter unite in the ceremony of drinking tea. A dark documedy about disease, disorder and death. Who says existentialism can't be funny?

Jernanger is a tale about the tempered Eivind who isn't scared of anything- except love. Eivind, lives aboard a boat in the South of Norway. The boat lies low and lopsided in the water. Thirty years ago Eivind left his homestead and his teenage sweetheart behind, and he has not been back since. He was meant to go back when everything was honky-dory- only that never happened. Then young Kris appears...

Theodor feels pressured by his exercise-obsessed girlfriend, Julie, to buy a treadmill. His life is about to change when he meets the eccentric, food-loving seller, Siren.

The film takes the theme of folk music as its starting point and puts old hardanger fiddle traditions from Telemark in a new perspective. Through a meeting between three women, "from soil to soul" reflects on what it is like to be human today: The need to be in contact with nature, the urge to create something of your own and express yourself, and the desire for community and to feel alive. Together, the musicians Johanna and Marianna and the gardener Ana get time to stand still.

Can love exist without madness? An ultra-intense, high-speed (self-)portrait of four women exploring the darkest corners of love without a filter. Hard, brutal and real – to a score by electro-queen Eartheater.

Anja Breien came across a box of glass plate negatives that her grandmother had photographed, many of them with remote trigger. Breien made contact copies of them and discovered a poetic talent. This film is an attempt to get a piece of her grandmother's life, of family life? an attempt to grab a forgotten past. Can we remember others' memories?

Based on a true story this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young woman doctor who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape for the border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and chased by the germans, the flight quickly turns into a tense fight for their life.

The Kingdom is the perfect blend of intense thriller and Shakespearean drama; Jo Nesbø’s version of Cain and Abel. It will challenge the viewer’s own perspectives on life choices, shame, inheritance, love, and destiny, in a way that forces you to realize that most people’s lives are different from what you might imagine. And as with all of life’s most difficult choices, there is no single right answer. The Kingdom is fundamentally about choices. What is right, what is wrong, what can you live with and how can you justify those choices to yourself. As the brothers’ father says at the beginning of the story: “The agony of choice, do you know what that is? When making the choice is what strangles you, not the choice itself. When you know that no matter what you choose, you’re going to lie awake at night torturing yourself over whether you made the right choice.”

A typical day for the two brothers who live by acting as juggling clowns between cars and exhaust in Guatemala City.

It is about a film director who has been engaged by the principal of a high school to be film teacher. The teacher comes into conflict with a talented but arrogant and deeply lonely student, who sabotages the teaching and are unable to get to school. But because the student shows film talent the teacher is trying to encourage student and get him to wake up and take school seriously. It should prove to be much harder than he thought.

After a chance encounter with her estranged best friend Petter, who stands accused of rape, Guro is thrust into a harrowing moral dilemma: should she stand by him, risking her own reputation and sense of self, or sever the tie, abandoning someone she once trusted most? MERCY premiered at the 48th Norwegian Short Film Festival, where it won the Golden Chair award for Best Norwegian Short, and it also won Best Short film at the Norwegian film award Amanda. The film’s stark, unflinching narrative examines the fragile line between loyalty and judgment, forcing audiences to wrestle with uncomfortable questions about friendship, stigma, and how quickly trust fractures under accusation.

The film is a personal reflection on the 1970s and the traces the era has set. The film is also an exploration of Nils Yttris's circumstances, mindset and destiny.

Tim is a proofreader at a newspaper in Oslo by day, and a pyromaniac at night. Only one other knows about Tim’s dark side: his childhood friend and editor of the newspaper. The two have kept the secret for years until the secretary, Margrethe, finds out.

Bored with his simple life in Norway, Espen comes to California as a foreign exchange student seeking a deeper purpose in life. At his new high school, he joins the tennis team and quickly wins new friends, but finds himself making compromising choices in order to fit in. After his girlfriend cheats on him at a New Year's party, Espen considers an early return to Norway. He seeks guidance from his host parents and his English teacher, who convince him to stay and finish the school year. When his girlfriend apologizes and wants him back, he finds the strength to forgive her and rebuild his friendships in the remaining weeks of the exchange program. When he gets humiliated in front of his classmates at prom, Espen must dig deeper than ever before to find the truth of who he is, before his sense of humanity is shattered

The secret smuggling of Wanted persons from the westcoast of Norway over to England during the WWII, based upon the novel by Nowegian novelist Sigurd Evensmo, telling the true story about his own experiences during the war.

Jonny and Pilla accidentally drives down a girl. What should they do next....?

The young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in Mrs. Knudsen's shop to establish himself, and after a short time he has the upper hand on Krøger...

Anarchistic fable where we follow the teaching of a modern witch, reconstructed by historical and anthropological knowledge, inspired by the books by Carlos Castaneda.

Extroversion is an attractive description, but why do we idealize this personality trait more highly? LISTEN TO THE WALLFLOWERS is a poetic short documentary about the need for quietness and spending time alone in a world that can't stop talking.

We meet the young violinist Øyvind Dahl at a time when everything has weighed him down and he is completely desperate for alcohol. He has left his wife and children and has teamed up with emaciated artists and suspicious individuals, and obtains his daily liquor by mortgaging his last possessions, even the wedding ring, and by pitifully barring money.