Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

Peeking into the stream of consciousness of a 24-year old.

Two strangers meet on a train station, after missing their train. While waiting they reminisce on their lost childhood.

Viking FK ends up in a disappointing 11th place in 2022, and the city's residents and supporters are about to lose patience with the club. This documentary follows the coaches Morten and Bjarte in their struggle to restore the club's honor and regain the trust and enthusiasm of the people.

After a career spanning over 60 years, painter Olav Nygaard has reached his last exhibition. But is he really ready to end his career?

Portrait of the band Motorpsycho in their early stages on tour in Europe.

Biegga savkala duoddara duohken lea soames (The wind whispers there is someone behind the tundra) shows a travel in time. The dancers travel in powerful landscape and meet their Sámi ancestors.

"Nuohttun" is an education film about how to fish with seine, a long fish net. The film also introduces Sámi language words for different kind of tools and chores related to fishing.

When two different cultures meet in Hammerfest, Norway. The second is old nomadism based on a large annual cycle, another contemporary urban culture that has risen around the oil and fish industry. The collision of these two cultures is inevitable but absurd.

Some people think that slightly weird, old ladies are scary, that they might are witches and eat small children. Snusa is a harsh film that is about exactly that - and about issues and things that maybe are different than they appear.

During the production of a documentary about a reconciliation attempt with a pride opponent, both parties are challenged to separate the professional and the personal.

A Semi-Educational, Semi-Fun, Tragi-Comic Film, “How To Make Friends In The Water” is about the mental and environmental blocks that keep us from connecting and thriving “in the water” especially if you weren’t taught to “swim” when young. The absurdist short film, which is inspired by 1940s social educational films from the U.S., will follow the journey of Susie as she tries to learn about both the people and the water that surrounds her.

‍Behind all important events in human history, even the most important one such as the landing on the Moon, there is always a woman.

The wedding between Else and Tommy was a grand affair at Oslo Spektrum, with Bjørn Eidsvåg as master of ceremonies, musical performances by major Norwegian artists, and comedy sketches by some of Norway's leading comedians. The protagonists themselves recount what it was like to get married in front of 7,500 spectators, how they fell in love, and the joy of sharing their everyday lives as husband and wife.

Norwegian experimental short film.

3 dancers expressing reflecting the feeling of the timeless words by the Persian poet Rumi, in a 10 chapter film.

Emine (10) lives in the small town, Pazar, in North East Turkey. Her best friend is Eda Nur (11). There has just been an earthquake 400 km away from where they live. Through the news they learn that many people have died and buildings have collapsed. With the backdrop of fearing the possibility of an earthquake hitting where the girls live, we learn about their friendship and its ups and downs. The girls have to prepare for their first Turkish bagpipe concert. But Emine is jealous of Eda Nur’s skills and that challenges her in keeping up the good friendship. Through the interactions between the two girls, we hope for Emine to acknowledge that she and Eda Nur are good at different things and that she sees the strengths of that in their friendship.

A meditative landscape film inspired by forests from childhood that have since been cut down. Exploring the impermanence of landscapes, and the relationship of place and memory, while longing for a shift in how people perceive nature.

A Japanese architect, Tadashi has lived his life in accordance with modern, rational, and constructive ideas of control and efficiency, ideas which also found physical expression in his life after retirement as a bodybuilder. This ideology faces dilemma after he has been diagnosed with an unusual and incurable progressive brain disease affecting his movements and speech.

A quiet moment at the horizon where the daughters and sons of Sápmi joiks the bright midsummer night until dawn. With their silky-smooth movements, they form silhouettes in the haze of tomorrow’s and future’s dreams.

A documentary film about a dark side of our democracy. Are there alternatives to sitting at home when trust in politicians and political parties is lacking?

A rainbow trout grows up in a safe fish farm with fixed feeding times. The fish are all protected from all dangers, but the life in the farm is so boring. When our little friend struggles to get something to eat, he collides with an another fish, and plump, he's suddenly outside the farm, left alone in the big, dangerous sea.

Time, the incessant rotation of everything on itself and around others. When our orbits, at times, get aligned, we build memory, we gain duration. Morhed images, animated abstract textures and Natasha Heidsieck Mak's text/voice compose the flow of the video It It brings into light the mutual - conflictual relationship between content and interface images

Øyvind Skogmo Hansen has for the past 10 years used tree climbing and ice bathing diligently as a form of therapy to counteract anxiety and depression.

Tells the story of Anna Stensholm and Anne Lånan, the last inhabitants on Vega.

A comedy special, musical bits, twists and turns that launch you into Martin's universe A show you will remember FOREVER!

A film by Kai Oka

A suitcase with valuable contents, an escaped prisoner, a corrupt jailer and a family on a trip are the ingredients of this zero-budget thriller.

Two desperate filmmakers decide to kidnap the minister of culture in order to finance their next movie.

A researcher uncovers an ancient entity in the High Arctic and is compelled into twisted servitude.

Over the course of smoking three cigarettes, a story of sexuality, betrayal, and friendship is exposed.

We are presented with a world where humanity's days are numbered, and nature has once again taken over. What happens when night falls and the office is closed?

The director looks back on her life and family, an upbringing marked by suicide and how the aftermath of that one incident has shaped her into who she is today.

Cecilie is confronted with her view of others, and herself.

Odd Nerdrum draws much of his inspiration for his paintings from Iceland. What is it about this lava island that makes him travel there every year? What is he looking for? We went with him to Iceland to find some of the answers.

You have probably seen it before and never even noticed. Metal bars dividing public benches. Perhaps tiny spikes sticking out of a railing or half wall. These are examples of a form of city planning that the general public has coined as hostile architecture. Hostile architecture, sometimes called defensive architecture, is a method of urban design that generally discourages the use of spaces in any other way than the intention of the owner. While at first glance this type of space design might seem logical it has a deep-rooted hatred underneath.

A journey through space where human bodies float, in anticipation of their first breath. We are brought with them down to earth and into the Norwegian winter landscape where they search for a glimpse of purpose, together with us.

Amiga demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

One house. An intruder. A family of four. Six security cameras running, all at the same time, with no cuts.

A young woman is losing touch with both herself and her girlfriend, as she is dealing with a melancholic mind.

This is a film about brotherhood and belongingness. A tender and somewhat alternative coming-of-age story, where country men bloom, both by breaking and maintaining old traditions.

A girl struggling with choices in life