Knut Erik Jensen

Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A young girl tries to find her own way through life in the ruins after a war that has left everything desolate.

"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.

A follow up to the original "Cool & Crazy" about the men's choir in Berlevåg. Here they go on a trip to the United States, after becoming famous as a result of the first movie.

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 Berlevåg.

In a dystopian future set in the northern part of Norway, a big corporation have stripped the sea of fish leaving locals without food and income.

Residents of the fishing villages of Senjahopen and Mefjordvær are going on a tax strike because they are not getting the road connection they were promised

Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.

The northern Norwegian village of Rallkattlia is experiencing the problems currently ravaging the coast more severely than ever before. What happens when the fish are gone, agriculture is unprofitable, and the bank has gone bankrupt? We witness the residents' humorous ingenuity in their efforts to save the village. The television version was filmed in an environment strikingly similar to Rallkattlia, where the people and Oluf go hand in hand. Sei no more – sei cod or liver...

A fresh and colorful meet with the local revue on the island Magerøya in Finnmark county in North-Norway. We get to know all the local people in the revue - old, young, women and men - and hear their own stories.

A film that conveys some of Peter Wessel Zapffe’s philosophical ideas.

"Du må våkne" (You must wake up) is the only dialogue line in the feature film STELLA POLARIS, by the Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen. An experimental portrait of the director in the reflections in the windows of a train.

When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the scars of a childhood haunted by rumors. During World War II, the Russians and Americans become a presence in this remote landscape, which will have far-ranging consequences. Victimized by rumor and Norways shifting political allegiances, Simon is denied the final reconciliation he longs for with his community and with himself. When the Berlin Wall falls, his life is once more turned upside down.

A love affair between a Swedish nurse and a Russian prisoner of war during World War II.

A surreal portrait of the landscape of Finnmark, Norway

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

The acute man is a film about hope and despair. It is the story of idealism and arrogance of power, a story of friendship across borders and religions. But above all it is the story of a person who refuses to give in, a doctor who has a goal to work for.

This is a music film: ”When I am chilled by the sun, and burnt by frost, when I feel everything is lost. There is still a light burning in the fog, My home in Honningsvag...”

In the Avalanche forest, a boy and a girl give free rein to their dreams and imagination. Past and present intertwine, time fades.