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Browse 14 movies from Trollfilm
A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.
Apr 2009
An elderly photographer studies a series of photographs, attempting to reconnect the broken thread of memory with the people they depict — who they were, how they lived, and where they are now.
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The ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. Nothing escapes her deadly pincers. For the blind fish Milva, it's a daily struggle for survival.Fran finds her magnificent and wishes she could see the ocean that way too. Will they be able to overcome their differences ?
Jun 2025
What was young gets old, what was healthy is sick. Uncertainty has crept in. What started out tough ends in melancholy. In that sense, this is a farewell.
Jun 2023
Petr, a kind-hearted baker, falls in love with Elena, a copper-haired nurse, while hospitalized. In a tender moment, she sedates him—and together with her accomplices, replaces his heart with a mechanical one. When she vanishes without a trace, Petr is thrown into a desperate search, driven by hope and despair.
Deep down in an empty silo, an intense, but silent battle for a young person in distress plays out. As parents, we don't always know what's going on in our children's heads. Little things can have a big impact in giving them energy to take on life.
Jun 2020
Whenever Vanja searches for her older sister, who is hiding from her, everything scares her: the giant snake that lurks for her in the dark courtyard and the cellar with its strange noises. This artful animation film tells of the power of the imagination, which turns shadows into monsters, but which can also give one the ability to become a true tiger which is afraid of nothing.
Feb 2022
A modern fable about a king who disappears from his castle.
Oct 1999
In this short, the story of a mother’s recovery from breast cancer is touchingly documented through playful stop-motion portraits of her children playing with her hair. The confronting gamut of emotions experienced by her and her family unfold before us, layer by layer, face-to-face, as her son and daughters twist, braid, and blow-dry her locks into different styles, no matter how long or short they are.
Mar 2018
The musk ox calf Musky is trying to find his way home after he, and a heard of young musk ox has been captured by hunters and transported from Greenland to the unfamiliar and unwelcoming Norwegian mountain Dovre. The tender, and heartbroken Musky believes that his family is waiting for him in Greenland, and becomes determined to find his way home. Blinded by his strong hope and belief, he sets out on a dramatic, yet magical journey. A story about finding your place in a new and unfamiliar world, when all you know and love has been taken from you.
Lävrasiid Äigi, the original Sami title, means "a time during autumn". From ancient times this was the time of year when the Sami people hunted reindeer. A Sami boy dreams about this hunt in the beginning of the film. Suddenly he hears singing, he has never heard before – it is called joik. He falls in love with the joiker: the Daughter of the Sun. To keep her, he needs to hide her for three days and three nights without lighting a campfire inside his tent. In a cloudy night though he takes a chance, but the star, which is her father, sees her through the cracks in the clouds and takes her home. The boy looses the Daughter of the Sun but has learned to master the power of the joik. He gets a large herd of rein deer, and experiences the greatest love of all.
Jan 1996
A baseball is thrown into space with enormous force. There is a race between this ball's fall to the ground, and a bird in growing panic plucking feathers from its own chest, to make a nest to save the "glass ball".
Jan 1992
Two children play together every day until they get separated by a war that brings their respective communities into conflict. They don't understand what's going on. When the war is over they meet again.
Feb 2002
Fragments from childhoods in dysfunctional families, where children are neglected by their caretakers. Children often protect their adults out of loyalty, and feelings of responsibility and being threatened make them quiet.
Jun 2018