Discoveries from Norway World Cinema

A boy named Adam is seeking to understand love, but is unsure of what he should be feeling. Through this process of understanding, he ends up hurting himself and the people around him

A drug deal gone wrong leads to a hand-to-hand fight in the smallest fighting space imaginable: a trailer.

Also a Life follows the daily life of residents and staff at a respite home for children and young people with developmental disabilities and autism. Through team leader Eivor, we see both the joys and challenges of life here, as they interact with residents, relatives, the staff, and the system around them. When Lilja, an 18-year-old with Downs Syndrome, becomes pregnant, Eivor must try to guide both Lilja, her parents, and the residence safely through the uncertainty and questions that arise, all while maintaining the routines and tasks of everyday life.

Kråkebollebilly wants to give hugs

Cape Verde, both literal and metaphorical epicenter of a world in crisis, is where powerful hurricanes are born. On these dry, wind-blown islands, filmmakers capture the will to live through humans and animals alike. Driven by the Coriolis Effect and worsened by global warming, storms grow ever more devastating.

This visual poem by Franciska Eliassen took me in and didn't let go. It builds its own world with few words. A powerful experience. - Marion Bouvier

Cartoon about a person who wants to break out of the framework around him - sometimes it's no use fighting back.

The life of a woman who became popular for painting dots on canvas

We follow the green city boundary from Ljan on the east side of the Oslofjord, up through Østmarka, Nordmarka and back down to the fjord. On the road we meet people and animals, railways, farms, agriculture and forestry. ***** 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.

Documentary about the Bingen log booms in Sørumsand, Norway. The film documents the work to restore one of the log boom foundations in the river.

Step into the chaotic realm of Deathhammer, where eternal unconditional brotherhood collides with existential dread in a hedonistic symphony of noise and fury.

This documentary film follows Sturm und Drang, an ensemble involving a number of established musicians, and performances on many music stages in Oslo. Their concerts at places such as Justisen, Krølle kro and Valkyrie restaurant are legendary for everyone who got to experience the concerts.

A young boy throws an apple from his balcony. In mid air he realizes the apple will hit a cyclist below him. What will be the consequences?

Dypt Vann is a short film about a young woman who enters a completely new form of therapy.

Someone's in trouble! Franco Bell impersonator, H.J., learns that he's related to a branch manager at Jack&Jones Eastern Region. What are they running from? Or worse/more specifically, who?

"Norwegians have a deep history, rich emotions and a highly dependent relationship with the nature that nurtured them. As a foreigner, I try to understand these subtle relationships and the philosophical thinking behind them. The film launches a series of exploration and questions on the process of raising salmon in Norway. Law, morality, nature, human nature, facts, data, production, consumption, these factors interact with each other and restrict each other, forming a unique balance of Norwegian style that is difficult to describe."

Wanting to prevent the growing number of physically challenged people, Aleksey Novikov has invented a wheelchair that will allow such people not only to move around the city environment safely, but also to play football.

Who are the hunters out there in the wild? It is not only the large predators that hunt. Almost everyone is hunting in one form or another. Now we will get to know more of them.

A self-balancing robot with a peculiar hobby gets his patience tested.

Stateless Arlen Khadaa lives at an airport in Kyrgyzstan. Without papers, he can neither enter nor leave the country. He lives on airport food, brushes his teeth and washes his clothes in the public toilet, and sleeps on the benches in the waiting hall. For almost two years this has been his life. His family lives in Norway; mother, siblings, wife and two children. It was a failed deportation from Norway that separated them. Arlen feels abandoned by the Norwegian authorities, but the family fights to get him home.

About a boy who should have locket the dog shed.

A research report on sausages. The film seeks to rehabilitate the hot dog, especially in relation to the hamburger, which has eventually conquered large parts of the fast food market.

A documentary film that addresses aspects of children's gender role patterns, in a serious, humorous way.

A film about an old man in a borderland between life and death.

Set on a rugged Arctic island where the sun sinks below the horizon for two months every winter, the film uses strikingly artistic imagery to investigate our relationship to the cycles of nature. It points an explorative lens at a remote island community, whose inhabitants know exactly at what place, on what day, and at what time they can see the sun again for the first time after the darkness of the polar night.

Brief moments of impermanence conjure forth the soul of the moment. “Something Is Other” explores the concepts of sensory memory, Associative Synesthesia and Ideasthesia, where fleeting moments of sensory input can evoke vague and often unnamed emotions, concepts or memories.

Comedian, magician and politician Per Inge Torkelsen chose the professional title "clown". Here are a selection of gems from his lively life as a "løgnas".

The film expresses what it feels like to have a learning difference in our school system. The film uses strong metaphors to portray these emotions, as we follow a boy named Johan who climbs a mountain in a world made of books.

The first production in the trademarked genre Symbiophonies - invented by director and composer Flint Juventino Beppe.

Not so long ago a childless couple lived beside the sea. Their monotonous life changes when, one day, a chest is washed up on the shore...

Ethereal Cascades II is a mesmerizing monochrome film that reveals the enduring allure of waterfalls through stunning slow-motion footage. Enhanced by tranquil Jazz melodies, this cinematic masterpiece invites viewers on a meditative exploration into the serene embrace of nature.

At a party, Lars is introduced to the drug dealer, Waylon. This is the start of a journey filled with drugs, violence and death.

José Rubén Zamora, founder and president of investigative daily El Periodico, and his family have been persecuted for decades in response to his newspaper’s exposure of corruption and crime.

A dirty little story about how life can be different when gambling addiction strikes.

We get the story of how Halvdan Sivertsen went from radical and narrow artist - to common property, hit-maker and entertainer. The story is crudely and humorously conveyed by Halvdan himself, with 30 of his songs.

The Norwegian municipality Bø in the Northern region of Vesterålen has reduced the taxes to attract rich inhabitants and make them invest in the small community of 2.500 inhabitants. But the opposition is not at all convinced of success.

15-25% of the population are childless. In this film, the director takes us on a difficult but at the same time heartwarming journey together with three other childless women. It looks at why having children in life is so important to many, and how it can affect our lives if the wish does not materialize. Grief, depression and feelings of alienation can be forever present for those affected by involuntary childlessness, but this film also contains a lot of hope and offers of reconciliation. An open and fragile journey into something deeply existential in a person's psyche.

Leon teams up with his childhood best friend, Morten, as they go on a search for the killer of Leons mother and Kjetil, his stepfather. They soon discover that the answers is approaching faster than they both could've imagined, and their search develops into a matter of survival.