Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

A surprisingly large number of employees attend the parent-teacher conference at the kindergarten, and the parents soon discover that the kindergarten does not share their conception that their four year old son’s behavior is within the normal range.

A film about a plastic spoon and a society that has reached a high level of development – oil is being retrieved from subterranean depths, transported to processing plants, turned into plastic, transported to another plant, where it acquires the shape of a spoon, transported to convenience stores, where we buy it, and is then soon tossed into the trash. In other words, this is a film about the efforts put into making a spoon that can be thrown away so effortlessly.

In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.

Simon Klose’s kinetic and socially-pressing documentary follows award-winning Swedish journalist My Vingren as she goes undercover online as a white supremacist in order to expose a network of neo-Nazis and far-right organizations that are viciously fostering hate speech and extremism on a global scale.

There are people in the basement of Ila prison and administrative detention center with serious mental sicknesses isloated from the other prisoners and the world. They don't get psychiatric treatment and become more sick and dangerous.

I Faresonen is a combination of a documentary and fictional approach to the problem of alcoholism -- or alcohol dependency. Tackling a problem common to other Nordic countries as well, director Bjoern Breigutu has focused on the life of sailors, among others, and how alcohol is used or abused in that sector of the population. This was the Norwegian entry at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

Liva is the first live DVD released by the Norwegian band Gåte, and was recorded on December 30, 2005 at Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway.

After losing his young daughter in a car accident, a desperate father tries to make things right, but finds himself in a dilemma when the line between life and death is blurred.

Ingun is placed under house arrest in their cabin, by her wife Signe, accused of harming their mutual daughter. To withhold their social cultural status, she must continue life as normal.

Frank used to be a brutal hitman, according to himself, and has even killed a dog once. But now he has serious problems with his back, and with help from a socialworker he is trying to find a new life.

Erik accepts a suitable job. But it turns out that the job isn't quite normal...

A young female hunter bumps into an enemy in the wilderness.

Explores the life and times of an institution that has been described as 20 years of continuous improvisation.

Baldurs Draumar is a film about Geirr Tveitt, one of Norway's most colorful and distinctive composers, and his lost masterpiece "Baldurs Draumar".

Two apartments. In one, lives a couple tired of each other. In the other, young students. The couple becomes aware of a party in the neighbour apartment, and are longing for the life of the youths.

Revisiting a teenage crush on a female teacher, Angelica Ruffier embarks on a delicate journey of memory and desire. A finely woven, reflective essay on past longings and present selves infused with the subtle glamour of French cinema.

Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution?

A symbolic reconstruction of the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt in 1963-1965. Litigation against those responsible for the mass extermination in German prison camps during the Second World War.

Baby Blues follows the sleep-deprived, frazzled new mom, MARTE (33), as she embarks on her very first walk alone with her newborn.

Widowed Gunhild has two daughters, and one of them, Ragnhild has fallen in love with poor boy Asmund, to her mother's dislike.

Min Mors Hemmelighet (Suddenly Sami) is a personal film about identity. During the director’s childhood and youth in Oslo her mother never told her about her indigenous Sami background in the Arctic area of Norway. Why didn’t she? And how can the director suddenly become Sami in the middle of life? And does she really want to?

Stoned BBQ in the forest

A feature film with documentary inserts about freedom of speech in Norwegian film, from the "witch" dance in Hønefoss in 1977, to the challenging of Norwegian film censorship today.

A woman returns home to her father and childhood home, after being gone for over 20 years. Her purpose for the visit is to deliver the message that her fathers former wife has passed away.

A young student, Mary, has been heartbroken in her relation with Liam. She is trying to go out and live again. On her way she meets Michael, who seems like a nice guy, but Mary wants to have control and take it easy going forward.

In 1927, with a broken heart as luggage, the young poet Norah Lange voyages on a Norwegian freighter from Buenos Aires to Oslo as the only female passenger. The film reimagines in a poetic way the trip and the power struggles Norah is forced to negotiate with the crew, as the crossing of the ocean leaves an indelible mark on Norah’s life and career.

There Will Be Oil is a documentary portrayal of the oil debate in Loften and Vesterålen.

Why do thousands of whales commit collective suicide every year? A deep-sea diver thinks he has the answer.

Upcomming movie based on Norways most sold frozen pizza. Grandiosa

At an underground MMA club in central Oslo, we meet a group of young people, each struggling with personal challenges that constantly test their love for the sport. Fighter follows Sara, who dreams of becoming a professional MMA athlete. She also dreams of Andrea. And even though their feelings are mutual, their relationship must remain a secret. Her father, whom she looks up to, expects Sara to one day take over the family-owned halal butcher shops and sees martial arts as nothing more than a hobby. The film explores multiple themes. It is about family love and loyalty, but it is also a journey into the unknown—one filled with desperation, sorrow, betrayal, and the hope of new beginnings.

When the last tram of the evening stops due to technical problems and the tram driver runs away, the passengers have to figure out who will take responsibility and follow him.

Silje, Markus, and Bendik call themselves tower agents and have their secret club room at the top of the old church tower. Just before Christmas, the scary Klausen takes over as the church bell ringer. He burns the script for the children's Christmas play and plans to steal the money that will be collected on Christmas Eve. The tower agents discover what is about to happen and take action. Unexpectedly, they receive help from a mysterious key that allows them to travel 2,000 years back in time. They meet Mary and Joseph, the wise men, and others who put them on the trail of a new Christmas play. Now they must act quickly.

A mystery about a photograph which went missing many years ago

Pakistani Ali Reza is found dead under a bridge, with a stab wound in the back. He was last observed boarding a bus the night before.

Hamid is an Iranian teenage boy whose sexuality brings him into conflict with his family's Muslim beliefs.

On a farm in east-Norway lives Jonas Værn. He befriends a traveling finn Ahti who tells about his lost love and the man that took it from him. Ahti is later accused of murdering that fellow traveler....

A young man wakes up in what appears to be an abandoned building, and realises he may not be alone.

A short documentary about important people and events during the 2nd world war.

At Gråtasstunet there is a well with miracle water, water that makes people who drink it much healthier in the head! The scrap dealers are, as always, on the hunt for Gråtass, but suddenly find themselves on a new career path, something Gråtass also puts a stop to.

The 2nd World War in Norway. The police chief in Lillesand tried in vain to report that a German warship had been sunk by a Polish submarine off Lillesand on 8 April 1945, but no one believed it to be a warning of an upcoming invasion.

A girl in her teenage years starts to wonder whether or not to leave all of her childhood behind.

Sissel, a single mother, celebrates her son's 18th birthday. But the evening doesn't go as planned when their guest arrives.

A conservative old bachelor buys an apartment previously owned by an artist who died suddenly. He has a weird feeling about the place from the start, and gets more and more obsessed by the previous owner's possessions and way of living. Finding some loveletters written by the deceased's mistress, Dott, gives him an irressistible urge to get to know her better.

The parish priest Gard-Aune is forced to choose between his love and his faith, but news both good and bad gives him new perspective, and changes his view on life for good.

Tells the story of an unusual group of ordinary people, who search where others give up. Ordinary people from a small Norwegian mountain village who volunteer to go out, under all kinds of conditions and in all kinds of weather, to search for people who have disappeared in the wilderness.

A reindeer company is being robbed for reindeer. The police hasn't got a clue, and a new investigator is sent. The thieves want to get rid of him, but things don't go as planned.

In this short, the story of a mother’s recovery from breast cancer is touchingly documented through playful stop-motion portraits of her children playing with her hair. The confronting gamut of emotions experienced by her and her family unfold before us, layer by layer, face-to-face, as her son and daughters twist, braid, and blow-dry her locks into different styles, no matter how long or short they are.

Sara is seventeen and lives with her parents in a house by the sea. She has a dark secret.

A short essay from Anja Breien about her father

In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend.

Two young men skateboarding on the dock as they undress. A beautiful and intimate courtship ritual.

Voyeurs is an Norwegian drama thriller about psychic men. It is an independent production and shot on DV. The story is about a psychic man, Samuel who falls in love, but his ability gets in the way of an ordinary life.

Martine (24) is still developing her identity. She wants to be seen as a masculine individual – not a lesbian. Mette (35) – the film’s director – is dreaming of becoming a mother. She and her wife Stina, face the big question; Is our baby not going to have a father? Marja (78) and Bodil, part of the first openly gay generation, think their new apartment is too masculine and needs “gender reassignment surgery”.