Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

"Hello, I'm calling from the Asthma and Allergy Association ..." Telemarketers are a hated professional group, but the nuances and mission are as many different as the voices.

Young people from different countries talk about their thoughts and worries in regards to climate change, and how it will effect their future.

In a small fishing village in the Lofoten Islands, three figures from local folklore - a Draugr, a Huldra, and a mountain troll - emerge from the landscape as if they had always been there.

A hotel receptionist meets various characters.

When teenage dreamer Emil becomes obsessed with the idea that the moon is made of cheese, he alienates his girlfriend Emma and spirals into a lonely quest to save the world with dairy-based economics. As their relationship unravels, both must confront the quirks, hurts, and hopes that define them. A quirky and tender coming-of-age story about love, obsession, and learning to meet in the middle.

When an artist struggles with expressing herself and finally becomes tired of perfectionism, she decides to let the paintbrush do the work.

Over the course of a year, we follow the Raballder handball team, which plays in a regular series in Oslo. The goal is a promotion from the 4th to the 3rd division. Everyone on the team is gay. From curling princesses in the dressing room, they transform into testosterone monsters on the pitch. The players are also fighting a battle against homophobic attitudes on the sports field. With a lot of self-irony and humor, the players make this an entertaining documentary series. We follow the boys in matches against heterosexual teams, take part in doctor visits, gay tournaments, EuroPride in Oslo, football matches, ski races, and celebrations of Norway's National Day. The boys also travel to their home villages where they meet their parents and siblings. One of the players gets his shooting arm destroyed in a car accident.

A long time ago, people traveled collectively to Oslo City by horse-drawn vehicles. This was the beginning of Oslo Sporveier (Oslo Tramways). Today, in the city that awakens to life in the morning, lots of people travel by buses and trams. We also get a dramatized tram stop, before we get a view of Oslo Sporveier's daily work. ***** 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.

On the 23rd of March 1975 Geir Sundet was fired from hi work due to his political stand, and is supported by his colleagues who lays down their work.

A documentary portrait of the director's friend, Aileen, a painter, former model, and who has now settled in rural Normandy.

In order to get control of her own life, Tina starts filming herself regularly.

For a year, we follow the life of two farms, with calving, slaughter, dung spread and production of traditional food. We join in an entertaining journey into the realities of life, and get an insight into a disappearing culture.

In 2004, Olav and Heidi Aabrekk had a severely brain-damaged son. Despite poor forecasts, the parents refused to give up hope of a positive development for the boy Simen. With the help of a self-composed method for comprehensive sensory stimulation, intensive motor training and optimal nutrition, Simen learned to read, write and communicate already as a 3-year-old.

An animated film for the whole family, set in a fantasy world where adults are created by a machine and the existence of children is threatened. Only those who refuse to let go of the child within can save the world. With new music from artist Tix, who is also a leading character in the film.

Did you pay the TV license?

A little cinematic round dance.

Three young Norwegian women form a coven and start the black metal band Witch Club Satan. Before they know it, they are playing at major international festivals, but the battle has only just begun.

Two men and a bathtub walk around the city and we see what they experience on their journey.

A Norwegian customs officer, a Finnish poacher, and a mysterious Swedish woman meet at the border between their homelands, becoming entangled in a conflict over laws, language, and prejudice.

Slettnes on the island of Sørøya in Finnmark is one of many hundreds of small settlements along the coast that were abandoned in the 1960s and 1970s. Around 1990, the then Statoil (now Equinor) had plans to level the entire place and build a gigantic facility for the onshore landing, processing, and shipping of gas from the Snøhvit field. As part of the preparations, archaeological excavations were carried out, and the archaeologists discovered remains of some of Norway’s oldest settlements — dating back approximately 10,000 years. The film follows the archaeologists and the people who own houses at Slettnes at a time when it was still uncertain whether the demolition plans would be carried out. We also follow processes and pipelines through time-lapse footage and reflect imaginatively on our relationship to time. (Later, the Slettnes project was put on hold, and the gas facility was instead built on Melkøya outside Hammerfest.)

12-year-old Gaia discovers her great-grandfather’s collection of rocks are troll eggs. When one hatches, Gaia forms a magical bond that soon draws her into an exciting yet dangerous adventure. Forces beyond her control threaten both her own world and the trolls’ hidden existence.

Young botany student Jane heads out into the jungles of South America to complete her PhD. She quickly develops a close relationship with the mysterious professor (and hobby chef) Juan Carnívoro, who shares her "appetite" for knowledge. But one day, when he shows her around the campus, she discovers that she herself is on the syllabus...

A farmer and his apprentice are forced into a difficult dilemma when a little orphaned lamb on the farm suddenly falls seriously ill.

At a private business school during the pandemic, Margaret is trying to put together a team building event.

survivors at the lake is a two part installation: a16mm film shown as film or on digital small screen titled snøflekker and a large scale framed photograph. snøflekker was filmed in Summer at a lake high up in the mountains on the island of Lofoten in Norway. At 900 meters above sea level, two spots of snow, nestled between the rocks, survived the summer. They hold the image in tension between stillness and transition, as they remain fixed in spite of the rain and the wind that cause ripples on the water below. The snow-spots reach to the past and future and somehow cease to belong in our present. The work echoes the landscapes of Romantic Painting. The photograph was taken in the winter in the same location from the same position. Possibly the two spots of snow in the film are left over from this winter landscape or they are covered with snow in the photograph and might reappear next season.

Late at night, a young woman asks her drunken flatmates, who have just returned from partying, to help her with a small bathroom emergency. But her girlfriends are not up to the task. It takes quite a bit of convincing and strength of will to find a positive outcome for the crisis in the shared flat. A short grotesque about bodies, shame, and the demands that growing up can impose.

A blacksmith by the seashore extracts the cormorant out of the pit of fire. Over and over and over again.

A young man drifts through the city of Oslo, retracing old steps.

A single slice of Pizza turns the evening of three teenage boys, completely on its head.

A short documentary capturing the simplicity and melancholy of a family's New Year's Eve.

A unionist is kidnapped on the streets of Oslo. The film uses its form to convey a paranoid mood and place South American conditions in a Norwegian context.

A summer storm interrupts a party and leaves two children to play by themselves in the children’s bedroom. They build their own world out of bed sheets and lose themselves in it. But what happens when the adult world knocks on the door?

One day, a new girl, Ada, moves into Tore's building. Tore becomes fascinated with Ada and decides to set up a camera in her apartment. Ada and Tore develops good chemistry, but to Tore’s surprise, not everything is as it seems with Ada—she has a secret of her own.

Adaptation of Albert Henrik Mohn's novella about child abuse.

Documentary about the drug mafia at Agder.

Au pair means being on an equal footing and the arrangement is intended as a cultural exchange. Homage au pair takes a closer look at the asymmetric power relationship between host and au pair.

For three decades, Erling Brekke was a police officer on Askøy who was also a cinematographer, documenting everything that took place after Second World War to preserve the memory of the world as it was then, and filling it with love for the island and the people.

Vidar suspects his new roommate is a terrorist.

In a ragged kitchen, a towel sees the dishsoap get used to death.

A young woman is in over her head chasing her mother's old national championship swimming record.

Bjørn Eidsvåg turns 70 and is surprised with a secret concert in Oslo Spektrum.

A man finds himself in a dystopian world overtaken by nazi chairs.

Arthur Hauge is a serial killer who reflects over his life and looks for the reason of his existence. We follow Arthur from childhood and all the way to his final breath. He also works on an art piece that in his eyes will change the world; his Magnum Opus.

A room full of crumpled up paper, crumbling charcoal sticks, large wooden boards - and in the middle of it all - a naked person. Old and wrinkled, young and fit, with seeming naturalness, they pose completely still so that frustrated students can try to reproduce every detail of their bodies. But who are they? The Naked is an short documentary about the body, nudity, shamelessness and shame - and people we look at, but don't always see.

Wilde and Marin are sisters and best friends. Marin suffers from bipolar disorder and Wilde has been trying to save her for years. Wilde understands that Marin has decided to end her life. This presents Wilde with a major dilemma.

Something evil is on its way to Oppdal Cultural Centre, - time to get out!!!

The demo of the now re-named "A fly Up Close". The morning routine of a young adult gets interrupted by his best friend.

This short film tells the story of its titular swan, and of how he went from a beloved small-town icon to a wanted criminal.

A former couple meets up again. Is she still crazy?

30-year-old Ola lives in the small Norwegian village of Vidaråsen, where the 150 residents are a fine mix of people with and without disabilities. A community living a slow-paced life in harmony with nature and values such as empathy, respect and interdependence. Ola, who has an intellectual disability, spends his days in the village, working in the workshop, pulling carrots from the ground and chatting for hours with his best friend, Lasse, who lives in the village. The conversations and cordial friendship are a highlight of Ola's daily life, but in the background, there's always the threat of Lasse getting fed up with his work or moving back to Denmark.