Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

One Saturday night in 1996, Bjørn Granum's doorbell rings. Outside he finds a group of travelers who have been searching for him for 45 years.

A young woman spirals into darkness following the death of her mother.

A movie loosely based on a strike in the community of Sauda, Norway 2. June 1970. The strike lasted for five weeks, and was on the news almost every day.

Hidden deep in the remote Norwegian woods, a solitary woman lives in a small cabin, unaware that a mythical creature from her mother’s childhood tales is about to come to life.

A documentary following the Swedish ethnographer Dr. Gustaf Bolinder's expedition to South America 1920-21, to register the threatened native cultures.

A woman goes on a long journey to meet a man she has chatted with on Tinder.

The film is about an acquaintance of both Siem and Teige, who three years ago became seriously ill and incarceration in psychiatry.

In Round Two we meet Hanne and Danel who have just had a successfull date and ended up at Hanne’s place. Here a breakdown of communication in an intimate situation, leads a blossoming romance into muddled waters, making them both feel confused and hurt, while leaving the audience pondering important and difficult questions about the grey areas of what constitutes abuse

When Johannes does not find any traces of Santa in the Santa workshop, he becomes worried that it may not be a proper Christmas this year. Johannes can not risk it, so he and Brillebjørn do everything they can for Santa to visit them on Christmas Eve.

H is on a trip to scenic Lofoten with his boyfriend. Affected by an event the night before leads him to alienation and transformation. ‘Det likner en kropp’ is a genre-bending, intimate and evocative short about living on the inside and outside of flesh.

Oslo' cemeteries are being presented, from the oldest that is kept in Ruinparken in the Old Town, to Our Savior's graveyard and many other burial mounds in the city center and outskirts of the city. Tombs of famous people from the history of the city and the nation are also shown. **** 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.

Everything goes to hell for a single mom working as a cleaner, when she takes an extra shift to afford a special present for her son on his 14th birthday.

The dog - man's best friend. The promise of unconditional love. But what if your dog has problems of their own to deal with?

High summer, and eight scouts are on a hike when they discover a hidden motorbike. The bike is hidden by two post office robbers. They leave the find, but the robbers take one a hostage.

Brit's parents are divorced and she lives with her mother in Oslo. Brit loves composing, and her mother wants to keep her away from that.

The tenderness of different young people as they confront and navigate the beginnings of relationships.

A documentary showing how much pupils in a class at a school close to the Kings castle has common, even if they are of different background and personality, coming from all over the world.

Tells about the development of the large petrochemical industrial area at Rafnes, established in the 1970s, and how it affected the surrounding areas.

In 1923, a group of rebellious workers from Rjukan, Norway, led their families deep into the Brazilian jungle to build a utopia. Instead, they found ruin, suffering, and catastrophe. One survivor warned those back home, calling it “a hell beyond compare.” A century later, a filmmaker sets out to reconstruct the forgotten story. After many false starts and setbacks, the project becomes a utopia of its own, not an ideal society, but a fragile dream that seems almost impossible to bring to life.

Young Finn Olaf arrives at the Mo i Rana steelworks and, while befriending crane operator Trond and his wife Margot, embarks on a secret affair with Margot that shatters Trond’s stable existence.

A series of interviews of people, whose lives, for better of for worse, has been shaped by the Norwegian inheritance law "Odelsrett".

Not until four years after The Fox's Widow was the third fairytale movie, The Seventh Master of the House, released – Caprino's personal favourite. This is a wonderful fairytale and a sharp satire on everyday bureaucracy. Caprino knew all about that – in fact, you might say that the movie was an indirect stab at the bureaucrats who had considered all his funding applications.

An experimental film that combines elements of avant-garde, silent comedy, horror, science fiction and animation.

During a night in June, Kai is making an encounter with his wife's family, one after one. She has left him, and he wants to know why.

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.

A fast and furious documentary about a seemingly normal 15 year old driving a rally car with 600 HP accelerating 0-100 km/h in 1,9 seconds? Well, Oliver Solberg is son of multiple world champion Petter Solberg, and Pernilla Solberg.

After a night out celebrating with his German colleagues, a Norwegian trade union leader ends up getting mugged by two prostitutes. Owing to the help of an unlikely Samaritan, he rediscovers the joy of helping the little man.

Two girls' metaphorical journey through stages of womanhood. The metaphor being a game of hide and seek in an abandoned house

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

Tor is looking in the fridge for beer when he notices something strange.

Stian's mom goes missing and fails to show up for her weekly check-in with the police. In the search for his mother, Stian is forced to face himself and his difficult past.

The wealthy farmer sits safely on his ancestral farm, and the hard-working tenant farmer lives on the hill below. The horse dealer at the coach station will trick the innocent farmer, who is not so innocent after all, with cunning tricks. The mischievous boy who bullies the servants when his mother and father are away, the kind-hearted little boy who helps his grandfather when no one else will listen to the old man, the village eccentric who never tires of recounting his youthful adventures in the city, the worn-out wife who will not send her cow to the show at any price.

Shepherd Isa must obey his father's strict order to bring back the lost lamb. On top of the mountain, his little brother and companion, Hamid, is wounded and Isa must decide whether he should do as told or follow his own instinct.

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.

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

The motivations of two men running an illegal assisted suicide service to help relieve suffering change with the the appearance of two very different women in their lives.

Nine knights return from the Crusades in the year 1396. They have lost the Holy Land and the war weighs heavily on them – but as they approach their frozen and snow-covered homes, they discover that the war is not yet over for them, and that death travels with them in a most surprising way...

The poor but skilled woodcutter Simen is conned by the rich Pikajord. Simen's answer is to reenact his own death through disappearance, and come back as a ghost. But then his attractive wife looks like a widow.

A new short film

Recruiting for Jihad is an investigative documentary film about Norwegian ISIS recruiter Ubaydullah Hussain.

Two women share a room in a hospital. One has just given birth to a stillborn child, the other has had her ovaries removed. Bonding over their trauma, past and present, both women in turn taking care of the other, they become friends and try to help each other upon leaving the hospital.

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A meditative sci-fi drama portraying the relationship between an AI-robot and his human girlfriend. The film sheds light on objectification in modern dating scenarios, and questions how future technology might further alter how we relate to each other as humans.

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

Oslo' cemeteries are being presented, from the oldest that is kept in Ruinparken in the Old Town, to Our Savior's graveyard and many other burial mounds in the city center and outskirts of the city. Tombs of famous people from the history of the city and the nation are also shown. **** 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.

We don’t know a lot about Zara and the others. But Zara and the others seem to violently nose bleed a lot. And Zara and the others are allegedly stealing pots and children from other people. Besides, Zara and the others live in a caravan. And what do Zara and the others eat for dinner? Probably something terribly frightening.

A coming of age documentary where the young person's teenage years has been characterized by domestic violence and adult responsibilities.

A film that explores different women's desire, or lack of desire, to have children. Told in four chapters.

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.

Arthur Sellmann is marrying Irene, and his friend, the spiritual Diana makes him read his future in the palm of his hands every week. Maybe he shouldn't have started believing what he is told.

A young man arrives at an old mansion to visit the upper-class family living there. He is a stranger with a sinister reason about to make itself clear. They are not expecting this knock on their door. This is a most unwelcome visit, but it may turn out that the family have more issues among themselves than what the stranger is about to bring.

A movie loosely based on a strike in the community of Sauda, Norway 2. June 1970. The strike lasted for five weeks, and was on the news almost every day.