The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner in Oslo, the police are able to find the thief after a few days, but the paintings are nowhere to be found. Barbora goes to the trial in hopes of finding clues, but instead she ends up asking the thief if she can paint a portrait of him. This will be the start of a very unusual friendship. Over three years, the cinematic documentary follows the incredible story of the artist looking for her stolen paintings, while at the same time turning the thief into art.
Kids Cup is a character driven coming-of-age family film from the world´s largest sports tournament for kids. We dive into a teenage universe and follow 13-14 year olds from different parts of the world, competing at the football tournament, Norway Cup, in Oslo.
From a Kafkaesque office for social media in Germany and on to Sudan, and to conversations with an Iranian Ayatollah, an Indian film censor and critical journalists in China. The Norwegian Håvard Fossum has travelled the world to understand what censorship is, and how censors work, both in theory and in practice.
Greek Orthodox nuns visit the small village of Valldal to have a majestic monastery built. The mayor is excited, but the villagers' opinions are different.
After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion of the poor. Ernesto is one of them. The much celebrated Colombian peace agreement throws Ernesto and the polarised society around him into chaos in which everyone is afraid of the future and their own survival.
Helge was lured away from his studies at the teacher training college and drawn into the magical world of Kaizers Orchestra because he was the only one in class who could play the harmonium and accordion. He never dreamed of being a rock star, nor even really liked rock music - but he has lived the rock-n-roll life ever since.
When you shatter your fantasies the pain may be crippling or trans formative. You will want to go back to the fantasies because you will never be sure whether you have really broken free.
Animated documentary about two Sudanese children who are abducted and used as slaves
Cecilia and Carlos, a daughter and a father, inspired a Norwegian play written by Elin Moe that deals with the consequences left in their lives by the Uruguayan dictatorship. Cecilia directed this film close to the premiere of the play, where Carlos talks about his unspoken truth: his years in prison and his exile.
The documentary film HUMAN study what’s human – out of context. Without familiar purposes and surroundings, the film plays our labeling instinct against the factual meeting with another person. How close can we get to another human before it gets inhuman, – or maybe too human?
The four young Scandinavian women Helene, Marte, Pauline and Wilde are all fat, and they’re not ashamed of it. They are part of a growing fat-activism movement that supports fat women and fights for body positivity and inclusivity. The message is that you’re beautiful just as you are. The women connect and support one another at group activities and outings.
With the distinctive technique of using multi-level glass tables, Norwegian animator Elin Grimstead has created a darkly mystical fairy tale. A girl and a boy seek to remove death from the world as they create their own funeral rites for the dead animals they find.
A sister and a brother and the fear of fornication.
The story about the poor Polish Moritz Rabinowitz who fell in love with the town of Haugesund, Norway, and became a wealthy clothes salesman, and was deported by the Nazi regime when they took control over Norway.
One of six children today live in a war zone. This is a meeting with three of them, where they in simple terms describe their experiences of war and daily life. The film is set in Iraq, but could be set anywhere in the world.
The last remaining all-male orchestra in Norway, Kampen Janitsjar, has an average age of 60, and is in desperate need of new members to keep their legacy alive. But with a lack of sufficient young male musicians, and quite a few women knocking at the membership door of this popular orchestra, the leaders are forced to take a long, hard look at the price of maintaining old traditions.
Mary Reklev (84) is Norway’s first female private detective. With over 40 years of experience, she solved more than 1000 cases. The people that came to her for help all had something in common – a fear of being deceived. But what they did not know was that Mary shared the same fear. The man who taught her everything about detective work, with whom she shared both an office and a home, betrayed her. In “the Shadow” Mary attempts to solve her last case: herself.
With the solar eclipse in 1999 as her mirror image, an exiled film artist turns her analogue film camera on her family in ex-Yugoslavia in a work that maps how a dark past remains embedded in the present.
A documentary of the complicated friendship between the filmmaker and a poverty-stricken Peruvian family.