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A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has children, but is disillusioned by marriage and embarks on a journey among men.
The dream of flying, and how humans have failed it - on every level. Stills and moving images, an editing exercise.
Disappointment, shame and unanswered love. Anna has to experience everything in a single evening, only 15 years old.
In this documentary, the author Roald Dahl presents the five monumental Norwegian artists Frans Widerberg, Arne Nordheim, Stein Mehren, Cecilie Løveid and Sverre Fehn.
Herman works as a delivery boy for a flower shop after school. One day delivers a bouquet to Rosa Stern, a woman in her early 40s who lives behind heavy curtains in an apartment filled with a mysterious atmosphere. In the coming weeks, Herman will receive more bouquets to be delivered to Rosa. Rosa's visits are becoming increasingly important to him.
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Seb and Teo loves action, though Seb is the risk taker. One day they steals his dad's classic motorcycle, a red Indian.
While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.
Short film about a sinking friendship.
The Prognose Innerdalen is supposed to show when the world richest energy-nation (Norway) has to get 60% of the country's food from abroad. Isn't it soil we need for the future, rather than energy?
A group of young people have finally fulfilled their dreams from school days – they have got jobs and "freedom." But freedom brings with it new and heavier responsibilities. They decide to realize one last dream and breathe new life into their old school band – moving to the countryside and making a living from gigs. And it's a success! But there's a flip side to the coin: the long-awaited freedom isn't theirs – they're being controlled from outside.
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
This melodrama is based on the best-selling autobiography of Ida Halvorsen, a part-time prostitute with a life that was difficult to survive. Ida (Kristin Kajander) grew up with an alcoholic father, and after she married an alcoholic, her life went from early marital bliss to misery. She had a child during that marriage, took drugs, and turned to prostitution to get the money she needed. Along the way, many characters she met were dangerous and in more than one instance almost killed her. For Norwegians who are familiar with her story, the ending to the film will be recognized as incomplete, the story continues. For other audiences the ending might be a little grim.
A documentary about the most discussed working conflict in modern Norwegian history. In 1975 Geir Sundet was fired with no given reason. Could it be that he was a Marxist-Leninist? His colleagues lays down the work in protest.
A young man takes the train to Oslo, He expects that his life will change completely and that he will be noticed.
Much as Buena Vista Social Club revealed a rich and unexplored world of music and culture, Cool & Crazy introduces us to a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame, as members of a male choir in BerlevĂĄg.
