Directing
Molecular gastronomy, pretentious self-realization and the weird choice to have children are all ingredients in this semi-apocalyptic double date from hell.
Iris, a mischievous and imaginative young girl, encounters a toddler who has ventured away from his parents, setting off a road movie filled with pills, cash, and a unicorn.
The eccentric sound artist Eirik Havnes is preparing his most ambitious project ever: A symphonic masterpiece with the nature as his orchestra.
An American dropout inadvertently triggers a zombie outbreak at a remote Norwegian nursing home while trying to save her grandmother from dementia. As if flesh-eating seniors weren’t enough, she’s also forced to contend with budget cuts, bureaucracy and Scandinavian conflict aversion.
In the mid 90s a gang of young criminals roamed the streets of Ranheim, a working class suburb of Trondheim. They receptively executed successful heists stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of soda and beer from the northbound freight train. No one expected the culprits to be young boys aged 11 to 15 years old.
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?'
Johan, a loner with horses and explosives, is never accepted by the local community. We follow his struggle for belonging in the village and the lifelong, unrequited love for the girl next door, which he accidentally blew up in his youth.
On a windswept cliff Birgit (54) fights a battle against wind turbines and for her marriage against the policeman Trond who has come to remove her. With knitting, chocolate cake and a will of steel, she challenges her husband to an unexpected duel.
A boy in a wheelchair gets a wild idea when he meets a free-range hen! He decides to help the hen do something he himself is not capable of.
The Psychonaut is a short hybrid documentary film showing how it's like to travel in one's own mind with the help of shrooms.
Four young men on the trip of their lives from Norway to Magaluf – the Mecca of party tourism. “Mågalúf” is a poetic and philosophical documentary film which tries to understand human behaviour and social mechanisms.
Hailed as the “godfather of Brooklyn pizza,” for forty five years Domenico DeMarco, Italian émigré and father of seven, has been slinging pizzas in his legendary corner shop, Di Fara. Employing five of his children, Dom works tirelessly from morning until night hand crafting each and every pizza himself while his kids take orders and manage the mob of devoted pizza aficionados. The Best Thing I Ever Done is a portrait of DeMarco and his beloved pizzeria, an exploration of his rise to fame and an ode to pizzaioli who take their time to 'make it right.'
One of Norway's most promising politicians is close to becoming the next prime minister, until scandalous stories of his past surface in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Director Håvard Bustnes sets out to make a film about him, but over time, he himself gets more and more drawn into Giske's publicity campaign.
