Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

Norwegian film documentary from 1931. It begins with the ship "Stavangersfjord"'s arrival in Brooklyn, followed by scenes from different streets and neighborhoods, the Norwegian Consulate General and Consul General Wilhelm Thorleif von Munthe of Morgenstierne. Furthermore, the Holland Tunnel and chief engineer Singstad's home, and a number of Norwegian institutions. The Norwegian Seamen's Church and seamen's home. The Norwegian hospital, Norwegian newspapers and so on.

A friend of the surgeon Bøhmer has to have his appendix removed, but during the anesthesia he reveals he loves the doctor's wife, which makes Bøhmer want to kill him. Three days later the patient dies. Did Bøhmer kill him?

The film follows a journey with the ship DS «Stavangerfjord» to Western Norway and Northern Norway's biggest tourist attractions of its time

A short documentary examining the intersection of Islam and LGBTQ identity. Through meetings with the first openly gay Muslim in Norway, Kaltham Alexander Lie, the leader of the Islamic Union of Oslo, Basim Ghozlan and an anonymous interview with a gay Muslim, the director tries to understand what it means to live without the freedom and to love whoever you want to love.

The whole town of Trangvik are up-roared by a young woman dressed improperly in a bathing suit, and many gather to make sure the town's morale is restored. But miss Helene Dyring isn't willing to give up her bathing holiday.

Several animated men walking.

Jens Bådd - code name 0017 - Norway's most effective and deadly agent returns.

Two childhood friends meet up after eight months apart, but can it ever be like it used to?

A mother tells her son a fairy tale, inspired by their own lives, about a young wolf who moves from the city to the village in search of the good life. Close to nature, and new to a world where the distance between life and death is short, the son is looking for a new friend: 'Do you want to play with me, wolfy?'

Sara Bahai, the first female taxi driver and women's rights activist in Afghanistan, is garnering the recognition in the public sphere she has always aspired. However, her greatest conflict arises in her own home.

A processoriented documentary showing the artist working with a project that leads to drawings carved onto big stone sculptures.

Leikr – Journey Towards Light is an old Norse word meaning game fight or exercise. An exciting meeting after a journey in an animated and evolving Nordic landscape. Original music by Bendik Hofseth, saxophone player and composer. A diverse artist who has written music for ballet, movies and theatre.

The film chronicles the life of author Thorvald Steen, who suffers from facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; a rare waste disorder that gradually and irreversibly paralyzes his body. The disease, however, has never stopped Thorvald. He is still an active public debater, freedom of speech advocate, author and cultural communicator, although his ski jumping days are over. Through Thorvald's own wonderful sense of humor and storytelling abilities, the film paints an intimate and poetic picture of an unusual life and the man who's still very much enjoying it. The well-known Norwegian photographer Per Maning has followed Thorvald with his camera for 25 years and documented Thorvald's development. The result is a unique and rare portrait of the meaning of life.

Look at a mistake that is not human. Be present in the uncontrollable intervention of the material. Between control and chance, surface and void, a film will (perhaps) be found.

A man in a suit plays the saxophone

A summer love blossoms, but will it stand the test of time?

The seventh show with Honningsvågrevyen. You'll meet Hallelujakameratene, Elektron, Arnt Hjalmar and a grumpy old kven with an unstoppable amount of northern Norwegian superlatives.

A stop motion film based on the biblical parable about the good Samaritan.

Idunn travels to the secluded village Gunntra to bury her deceased father. They didn't speak for many years, while he was the local sheriff in Gunntra. Now he is dead. When she looks into his last case she finds horrifying statistics of disappearing children, and a theory that reveals a connection to the old mines.

A film shot entirely during six peak weeks as COVID-19 hits the world - and the small Arctic town of Tromsø. The filmmaker follows a group of individuals, that each in their own way are trying to grasp, interpret and cope with their existence being turned upside down. As apocalypse looms and one snow storm after another hits their town, their paths collide. What awaits on the other side?

When doing a syntactic analysis of “I was raped”, the receiver has to look and listen to the statement again and again. The sound of the words turns into a picture and the picture becomes a fact that we cannot turn ourselves away from or ignore.

An homage to playtime, Adult Wasteland is shot at Valnesfjord elementary school in Fauske municipality, commissioned by the public art project Noerart. The film is shot in time-lapse, featuring music from the band Cold Mailman from Bodø.

In a humorous and insightful way, the film tells about how yoik arises and is created, about how to yoik - and who you can yoik.

Iris and her twin brother Eik are told to stop playing video games and go outside and play in the forest. To avoid boredom, they continue playing the same video game in their mind.

Tone and Andreas have a normal conversation together while eating breakfast.

A man has isolated himself from the outside world in the struggle to protect his fox pack.

An attempt to show an unknown face of Norwegian youths. Two young men have had a difficult past, which involved drugs and crime as well as family traumas. Today, each of them tries to deal with the reality in a different way. One seems to continue the bravado by drinking himself unconscious. The other is searching for another solution, although he accompanies his friend. Rather than in a drunk tank, he can be seen in hospitals or centres for seniors where he gives concerts playing his guitar.

On Jæren, the large farmer Ommunn Brattevoll is in the process of organizing other farmers for cooperative membership. Finally, most people are convinced after a trip to Stavanger where they are given a tour of the consumer team's factories. The big farmer's daughter finds her new boyfriend and finally celebrates a double wedding together with the village's original and his chosen alternative two. At the wedding, the idea of ​​unity is emphasized by the bride's father in the speech to the bride and groom, who are now both registered with Samvirkelaget.

A father is tucking his young son to bed. As the child tries to fall asleep, mysterious events take place, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, and making the boy confront a tragic past.

On the 29th of April 1978, a quick clay landslide devastated large areas of the rural district of Rissa. One person died whilst 13 farms; 2 homes; a cabin and a community centre were taken by the clay masses. The Rissa landslide was caught on 8 mm cinefilm by two film amateurs. This is still used actively in avalanche preventative and educational work.

The film takes place 100 years ago at Prestegárden in Ovre Rendal. Johannes, Jacob's brother, falls ill with pneumonia. The road to Tynset and the doctor is long, so Vesleblakken has a difficult journey ahead of him.

A security guard at work in a vast shopping center, sees someone ominous from his personal history on the CCTV he is monitoring. And gradually, via a irregular customer announcement, he makes direct contact with his past.

Hungarian Lullaby is a journey through time, across space, from woman to woman, linking past to present. It is a quest for the truth, that delves into a vault of secrets, forgotten memories and family history.

The Oslo schools provide good test results, but they also have one of the country's most comprehensive test systems. In primary school, students have up to 325 tests in addition to regular exams. Who really wins all the testing? Are the good test results at the expense of something else?

A director is having trouble looking at the pictures in the movie she has made of breed dogs and dog owners since she is a fierce race breeding opponent.

A good teacher is an artist, said John Steinbeck. And you definitely remember her - or him - the teacher who gave so much more. Such teachers can hardly be described, just experienced.

The 24 year old midwife student Hanna and her boyfriend Andreas live happily together. Hanna's life is thereby turned upside down when she finds out that she's pregnant.

For twenty-four years filmmaker Pål Winsents filmed his niece Christina while she navigated through life diagnosed with Kleefstra syndrome. The rare genetic disease leads to learning disabilities and reduced cognitive behavior, giving Christina a challenging journey in many arenas. But is twenty-four years enough time to break the code of who and what an individual really is? Gåten Christina is a playful and warm take on the mission to answer this question. Who Christina is today and how she faced the school system and workforce growing up. The result is an authentic and sincere portrait of a unique individual journey that empathically puts the spotlight on the challenges a person with psychological disabilities meet in an every-day life.

Six strangers in an elevator each hold a black box, containing stories of shame and violence. But what will they do when they arrive at their respective floors?

A short documentary about Isak, a young trans man living in Norway. Isak's story reveals the transformative power of becoming your truest self through the lens of gender identity. From past to present, the film explores the physical, emotional, and social implications of transitioning. It combines cultural context with firsthand storytelling to explore what it means to be trans: do you have to forget your past to become the gender you were meant to be?

Sverre is a kindhearted but taciturn lighthouse keeper who lives alone on the isolated Hvaløya Island. Early one May morning, Sverre gets an unexpected guest, who forces him to face his past.

15-year-old trans activist Jo is discovered by Astrid, a commercial photographer. At a photo shoot they both cross a line, longing to be visible.

A documentary about a live dance show.

The women in daKings tighten up their tits and imitate men on stage. For two years they try to build up a drag king group in Norway. But can six strong women manage to work together? This is a film about strong wills and the dream of performing.

Paperboy Kurt walks in on his girlfriend cheating on him. Gry, his girlfriend, convinces him that what he saw was all in his head, and sends him off to a shrink. Everything goes downhill from there.

In the Arctic, the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen, located in the Svalbard archipelago, has been extracting coal for one hundred years as an energetic and economic source, which stirs many environmental paradoxes. In 2015, the mayor election year, the coal prices fall and the issue of sustainable development starts to emerge in the minds. According to some scientists, politicians and city locals, Longyearbyen is now facing a race against the clock.

Erffan, Amir and Carlos are enjoying a warm day in a Norwegian town, when a drunken man, who calls himself Jesus joins them.

In 1948, a secret club was established in Norway when homosexuality was a criminal offence. Although curtains were always drawn and new members were put through a screening process, this rare sanctuary provided a safe space for meeting and dancing at a time when being outed meant social ruin. With humour and a touch of sadness, some of the survivors of those days share their joyous stories of love, lust and politics.

The Heart Followers - Inside a glass dome in Northern Norway, lives a family of five. In the inhospitable Arctic climate the Heart Followers have found their unique way of life. In the garden around the little house, they grow their own food all year round. In this nature friendly shelter, they are protected from all kinds of weather, and lives in harmony with the spectacular surroundings, and the elves in the forest.

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover something about either the natural process(killing and eating) or the more removed process(filming and editing), in an experimental entanglement.