Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

A labor party leader is having an affair with the opposing party's secretary. Unfortunately for them, there seems to be a corpse in their hotel room just as they managed to sneak in unnoticed.

We meet a group of elderly people who meet every week to dance together - and they've done since they were young.

"Svalbard- Arctic Seasons" features the the wildlife, spectaculer nature and human activeties of the archipelago known as Svalbard, which lies to the north of Scandinavia. The jurney through the artic seasons also features the life of trappers and scientists in the kingdom of the polar bear.

A warm and humorous environmental portrait from Øksnes in Vesterålen where radio bingo is a widespread activity.

Radio personality Rolf Kirkvaag, playing himself, is appointed to design an apartment to be given out as the main prize in a lottery. He is in over his head, but is assisted housewife consultant Eva Lund. The third in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".

Three people wake up in an apartment at broad daylight, after a heavy party the day before. Christian is a family man and a freelance photographer is waking up in his studio, and his friend Nils, an artist. But who is the girl?

Randy Longbender has a terrible day, but it`s all about to get worse. A viral outbreak in the small city of Pitsaw Creek causes people to turn into flesh-eating zombies. The government chooses to isolate the city from the rest of the world, and Randy has to fight for his life. At the same time, american soldier Chip Connor (Daniel Eik) arrives with his team to sort of the panic within the city. His little son Timmy is suffering from leukemia, and Chip`s biggest hope is to one day see him again.

Shows footage from King Haakon the 7th arrival in Norway in 1905 to the beginning of the space age.

Sailor and engineer Sigurd Coates spent 20 years and everything he had to build a 148-foot-tall replica of the legendary British royal yacht Britannia.

A serious and terminal diagnosis changes filmmaker Petter Vennerøds life abruptly. He wants you to join him o his last film - but it's urgent. The illness in his head is taking his words and thoughts. We follow Petter until he gets the opening sequence he wants in the film; the funeral.

Based on the Norwegian fairytale.

Line is 17 years old, has downs syndrome and her dream is to make a film. Now she gets the chance! We follow Line as she writes, directs an edits her film.

Experimental gore horror film with music and samples from Merzbow, Tool and Aleister Crowley.

A bewildered young man seeks advice from a somewhat alternative psychologist.

Miko and his big brother Dimas, two brothers from Ukraine, grow up in Norway in a rough environment. Their days are filled with MMA training and driving their car. Miko convinces his big brother to let him tag along to the techno club, but the reveal of Dimas' sexual orientation may be too much for Miko to handle.

Kings of Convenience return with the first new music in 12 years. This documentary shares the band's history, as well as their journey to create the 2021 album ‘Peace Or Love’.

In a bed at a treatment centre, a severely disabled boy lies. Nobody understands him. Everybody has given him up, except for one person. A warm film about the fact that solutions are not always the solution.

"Dead Cold" - About a family in 2058. The father travels because the climate change makes it too cold to live on Nordkalotten/Arctic.

Gråtass celebrates Christmas in the barn together with Gamlefar, Goggen, and Grynet. As always, they have invited many adults and children to the barn—now they will all sing and dance in Christmas. The musicians have tuned their instruments, the barn is decorated for the party, and everyone is ready. Now they are just waiting for Goggen—he has to put out the porridge for the elf...

Norwegian film history narrated by Harald Heide Steen jr.

Living ordinary lives in the small island municipality of Flaugstad, the fisherman Frank, his brother in law Magne and the smuggler Ronny is deeply affected by a ban on motorboats, and a corner stone factory in the island closes down.

Jonas, a successful car-salesman is being suspected having driven over a child. His life is turned upside down and he realize that that we are all responsible, one way or another.

Egon and the gang is about to commit their biggest heist – stealing 6 millions from an undercover operation at a freight company. The money is stored in the most advanced security vault ever constructed, guarded by professional gorillas.

Kaptein Sabeltann is back! And when the people of Kjuttaviga also find a parchment that says there is another treasure from the pirate Grusomme Gabriel in Kjuttaviga, things really become wild.

Daniel helps his newly widowed grandpa buy something online, with the help of his cousin's neurotic new boyfriend.

A meditative film that explores modernist architecture in Norway, spanning from the late fifties to the early nineties.

Deciding to track down Odd Nerdrum's sources of inspiration, his former pupil Jan-Ove Tuv and his son Öde go on a world tour, visiting the museums and people that crossed paths with the painter in his pursuit of the immortal masterpiece.

Lars' first call at a helpline doesn't quite go according to plan.

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

The film deals with poverty in Oslo in the 1930s

During the great Nordic war in 1719, the Swedes have occupied parts of Norway. During the retreat over Tydal mountains most freezes to death. However, some seek refuge in mountain huts. The farmers chase them. The Swede hater Sjur come on tracks of Per Jons, seeking refuge in a mountain hut where Sjur's daughter Eli is located. She takes care of the wounded Per and there is a love affair between them. A relationship which does not fall in well with her ​​father.

In this film we can see how to slaughter a reindeer and cut the meat and skin.

Dalion, an ambitious boxer from the underground, is ready for the greatest match of his career. When his childhood friends come to visit, Dalion is plunged into his former Low Life. As a consequence of his gang’s actions, Dalion’s dream of becoming a boxer is in jeopardy.

Reconstruction of the first Norwegian film from 1908 which is lost. The film is made as a part of the Oslofilm series. ***** 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.

Sami dance students Birit and Katja Haarla dance through the villages and lost woods of Sápmi all the way to where the important decisions are made. The polarity of Nature and the Western way of life is filtered through sharp humour.

Based on the 1931 novel To levende og en død by Sigurd Christiansen. A post office worker is left wrestling with his conscience following a robbery at his workplace.

The drunk Jeppe has a life changing moment when he thinks he is in heaven when he wakes up in a rich man's bed.

The Psychonaut is a short hybrid documentary film showing how it's like to travel in one's own mind with the help of shrooms.

In Nigeria's Niger Delta, where oil extraction has poisoned the land for decades, poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey nurtures a new generation of writers to fight back.

An innocent cam session develops into a drama of life and death, and Lotte has some unexpected awakenings. Part two of a trilogy, after Transaksjoner (2021).

A filmed revue show of Gledeshus from Chat Noir in Oslo 1974.

Camilla and William are not able to adapt to the Norwegian welfare paradise. When the authorities want to take Camilla’s baby, the two drifters run away into the woods. There, William suggests that Camilla becomes a prostitute so they can buy themselves a camper and drive to Spain. But in order to sell sex they need a house.

David's grandfather Kåre has always been a fearless adventurer, an inventor with fabulous ideas and a collector of memories - but also David's childhood hero and inspiration source as a director and photographer. When Kåre is diagnosed with dementia, David fears the memories of their life together will be lost. Shot over a period of 9 years.

A bunch of friends meet after being at the cinema. AFTER THE FILM is a dialogue-driven film about a generation that is often bypassed in Norwegian film in general. Geir Grenis shorts tells intriguing stories with a hushed psychological insight into the human mind many labyrinths. A recurrent theme is often meta comments to our modern society yearning to become visible and be seen.

Kaptein Sabeltann is back! And when the people of Kjuttaviga also find a parchment that says there is another treasure from the pirate Grusomme Gabriel in Kjuttaviga, things really become wild.

Experimental short

Journalist Jørgen Lorentzen was in Turkey when the coup attempt happened in 2016 and followed the event the whole evening. In the middle of the night one neighbour said: “This is not a real coup, I have experienced many coups and know what a coup is”. From that moment Lorentzen started the investigation of the event and its aftermath. This documentary is a critical analysis of the coup attempt in Turkey throughout the night between the 15th and 16th of July 2016.

Erlend and Alexander became friends in eighth grade. Now they are 34-year-old and still friends.

A conflict between a taxi driver and his annoying passenger.

Portrait of the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø.

Three friends go on a hike and discover supernatural things in the forest.