Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

A young idealist has his faith in his own character and his ideals tested after a traumatic experience.

Larger than life, dressed in suit and tie, dad appears at the window one evening, with a gift for his son. Daddy is strong and brave, he frees animals from captivity, wins races with his superfast car, dives down into the depths of the ocean. Dad is a sorcerer who can make himself appear and disappear magically. The film tells of a childs poignant longing for his absent father.

The voyage to the scariest ski run of my life. The last voyage of Sofie and Captain Crocs. A ski odyssey to the far northern fjords of Norway, presented by Norrøna and Black Crows. After a decade of dreaming of the Kvænangstindan mountain range we board Captain Crocs' vessel Sofie in search of adventure. But when have you pushed it so far over the edge that you may never sail back home?

When twelve-year-old Erik is forced to choose which parent should have to move out during an ugly divorce, he struggles in the aftermath of his decision and how it ends up altering his relationships not only with his parents, but his two younger brothers as well.

Nowhere is a meditative journey through nature's calming landscape and man's chaotic reality in search of epic beauty and harsh truth. The film is based on Rogaland's cultural and industrial landscape, but as the title Nowhere suggests, the images are not tied to a specific place. The film sheds light on the contrast between man and nature, and on man's urge to shape his surroundings.

On Halloween Sara and her brother Jon breaks into an abandoned building, only to discover that the house they entered is haunted. Now they have to fight for their lives to get out alive.

Glimpse from the hospital operation in Oslo Municipality. ***** 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.

Get to know some of the people furthest down on the human rank. They have disconnected from society, which often had them written off as kids. They are gladly criminals, so they get their next fix.

In no. 47s café, the soldiers gather to hear his songs and stories.

This is Oslo Kinematografer's Christmas greeting from 1951, where a family invites the audience to sing Christmas songs with them.

The young boy Amir is about to freeze to death in the ice cold winter weather. He must seek shelter in a house, which leads to an unexpected meeting between past and present.

Inger Lise Hansen made the site-specific work Parallax during an artist residency in Linz, Austria, for the exhibition Höhenrausch at the OK Center for Contemporary Art. The film is shot entirely on the roof of a shopping center in Linz.

He was an anarchist and provocateur. Underground filmmaker and a cheeky fuck. Several of today's veterans in the Norwegian film industry started their career with him. Yet there are few today who know Bredo Greve. In Bredo Greve - filmrebell you will get to know the filmmaker's marvelous film history. Greve was always ready for a good fight, and he used film to pinpoint problems in society that are still scarily relevant.

The film deals with mental illness and aims to prove that psychological trauma can and should be treated just like any other illness.

A film showcasing various leisure activities available to young people. // 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.

A private detective investigates a serial bomber, but the criminal is already targeting him.

Constructed in 1955 to initially connect Kiruna in Sweden to Altavatn in Norway, the work with the Solitary road was stopped for military reasons. Five small villages had been connected by the road and they were left with a deserted 20 km stretch in the wilderness. Along the road Sami people and finish farmers continue their lives. They still have the road and they have brought really old cars over the ice of Torneträsk so they could drive during summer time. One of the old men that built the road, Sven-Erik Stöckel, writes a letter to the politicians in Kiruna, asking them to finish the road so people do not have to risk their lives getting to the road crossing the dangerous lake of Torneträsk. Will it ever be finished? And what happened to the children that were born as a result of the road workers coming into the wilderness meeting the local girls?

Magic occurs when the Swedish film composers Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg and Magnus Jarlbo together with the young multi-artist Emelie Markgren present new instrumental inventions in an encounter with northern Norwegian nature. Together, the two composers have created music for nearly 100 films. Sebastian Rubinstein Öberg for directors such as Jan Troell. Magnus Jarlbo composed the music for the Berlinale winner "A Soap".

Even though their parents are breaking up, the two stepsisters, Julie and Luna, will not accept that they can't be sisters anymore. A plan is put to motion to change things before it's too late.

Lightning sharp comedy about everything and nothing. Financed, directed, written and produced by Jonis Josef, with a handful of good helpers.

A comparison of women’s life in Niger and Norway. Film footage and photos taken in the beginning of the 1970s in the village of Maïné-Soroa, in Eastern Niger, are juxtaposed with audio-visual material from Tromsø in Northern Norway. Using a simple, didactic voice-over, the film questions many stereotypes about women’s life in Africa and Norway. It is an attempt to use audio-visual tools and fieldwork experience to teach cross-cultural understanding and ethnocentrism in Norway.

Documentary about 100 boys on a voyage with the school ship "Christian Radich" to Lisbon, Casablanca, Madeira and the Azores in the summer of 1947.

No one knows that the rich landowner of Borgan is the father of Anne whose parents work on the farm. The landowner's brother has bad times in the city and his son wants to be a farmer. he is secretly engaged to be married to Anne.

Iver loses his Romani-parents in an avalanche, and gets adopted by farmer Sjur. Years later, his background comes back to cause trouble in his personal life.

Silja escapes her mundane every day obligations into a world where she is the most comfortable, her element of choice, water. But what will she do when she realises that she’s not as alone as she thinks, and what is she really running away from?

Photo record of people by the titular waterfall. It is known that Hans Berge traveled around Minnesota at this time and therefore this may be his own recording, but it may also be a recording Berge has bought. Possibly it is a fragment from a production of Selig Polyscope Company.

Hasn’t she read his Facebook message, or is she ghosting him somehow? On the desperate wait for an answer in the loneliness of one’s own four walls.

Martin Slaatto is a trained dancer and actor from London and Oslo, and works to promote dance in everyday life and make people more aware of their own movements.

A man chops some wood, and then something else.

In this documentary, the author Roald Dahl presents the five monumental Norwegian artists Frans Widerberg, Arne Nordheim, Stein Mehren, Cecilie Løveid and Sverre Fehn.

A young man from Larvik never says no. One day he gets a magic salt grinder from a salt troll. The town's richest person steals the salt grinder, and it ends with disaster.

A documentary about Elsa Laula Renberg, a South Sámi activist.

A boy is taken to the big city by his mother and experiences the world as an open place full of impressions. At the end of the journey, he is about to enter a world where he does not belong.

An norwegian anthology horror film written and directed by Raymond Dullum with 7 tales of Murders, Misery, Maniacs, Revenge, A Rapist, A Strangler, A Strange Painting, Psychic Men, A Doppelgänger and a home made Voodoo Doll.

"The Underground" is a strong visual depiction of humans and the environment of Kolsåsbanen during an exciting time with political overtones.

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An experimental short film.

Based entirely on found footage, the film conveys the story of the Norwegian band Hangface as they move to Los Angeles in the early 2000's to take on the music world with legendary producer Eddie Kramer (Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones). Accompanying them is a mini-DV camera, that 20 years later serves as a portal into the inner lives of five overly ambitious boys who were set on conquering the world.

A celebration of the musical career of Norwegian singer-songwriter Lillebjørn Nilsen, featuring archive footage from his career from the 1960's to the 2020's.

A film about malicious compliance.

An interesting look into 1931, a year of unemployment and misery in the forests of Norway. The movie is important as both film history and social portrayal. We get insight into working conditions class differences between loggers and forest owners. Based on the events of the Julussa conflict the movie depicts early labour organization, unity and strike.

Knut is a middle aged, lonely man, in desperate need of company. Mirza is an illegal immigrant, in need of every help he can get.

In a world of fast cars and jealousy, one man must make the ultimate choice between two worlds: a world of love, friendship and commitment, or a world he knows all too well: the world of the bachelor. Will he make the right choice? In a perfect world he would, but the wild rugged coast of Western Norway is no such place. It's a place where real men make difficult decisions forged by the ancient conflicts of men, women and nature. For one man it may just be too much

REVOLUTIONENS DATTER starred Danish boxer Waldemar Holberg. Holberg held a version (Australian) of the welterweight title for a month in 1914. From what I could see he made two films, in Norway in 1918, while fighting there from 1917 to 1919. So his film's survival rate is 50%. Billed as a 'folke komedie' in 4 acts (I saw no comedy), it does end with the obligatory boxing match. An interesting note is that the actor playing his opponent is Fred Boston. Waldemar Holberg knocked out a boxer named Fred Boston in Oslo in 1918, but it is Boston's only recorded match. Makes one wonder.....

Straight out of the sewers in the south, Sørsia Gerilja established itself as something truly unique in the Trøndelag rap scene. With raw lyrics and an even rougher attitude, the group clashed with police, producers, and at times even themselves. You couldn’t ask for better breeding ground for hip-hop. But 20 years have passed, and now they are reuniting for the very first time — on stage at the Pstereo-Festival.

A documentary about 15-year-old Oksana who follows her mother's dream to see her become a prima ballerina.

During the shoot for an abandoned movie project set in Stavanger, Norway, something went terribly wrong. A sarcastic ping-pong verbal exchange between the selfie-taking father and his precocious nine year old daughter takes an unexpected turn.

A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.

A historical overview of Oslo’s main street, Karl Johan. // 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.

Bad Bulls is a puppet-animated parody of the spaghetti western films of the 60s and 70s. A classic cowboy story; a hero, his dog, a scary gang and a pretty damsel in distress. Almost all the characters are bulls or chickens, except for Hot Dog who is a dog and narrator.

Liberland tells the unusual history of a territory located in the Balkans, a micronation proclaimed by the Czech Vít Jedlička. Does this fanciful gesture conceal the willingness to construct a communitarian ideal, or the desire to build an empire of pernicious interests with impenetrable contours? This film skilfully combines geopolitical questioning and spirited satire.