Einar Sverdrup

An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and she makes a crucial decision.

Making Sense Together investigates the relationship between power and powerlessness in psychiatric health care. The film is a hybrid, combining documentary with fictional elements.

A teenager's millionaire father goes bankrupt, and rumors about the girl's family finances make the school day a painful struggle.

In this kafkaesque meeting a mother and her son is fighting a clogged bureaucracy that intensify the personal suffering it is supposed to remedy.

The Green Valley is a short film that explores the connection between politics, art and daily life in a multicultural neighborhood in Oslo. The film is inspired by three real events that took place in the director's neighborhood.

A woman invites her mother to an underwater restaurant to celebrate her 70th birthday. Their seemingly everyday conversation opens up questions about the individual and society, privileges and responsibilities, belonging and rejection.

Defeated by her own brother's decades-long struggle with the mental health system, a filmmaker contrives a fictional TV channel to expose the injustices of modern mental health treatments.

What does it really mean to be good? What dilemmas arise when doing good? Through an episodic narrative structure, the good is explored across culture, class and ethnicity. With a humorous oblique look, Norwegian naivety, goodness and self-understanding are put to the test.