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Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality and identity. One has a same-sex encounter without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity. The other finds himself in dreams where he is seen as a woman.
Mar 2024
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Feb 2006
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
Sep 2017
Johanne falls in love with her teacher and records her fantasies and feelings in writing. Together with her mother and grandmother, they debate the literary potential and whether to publish it.
Oct 2024
2021, Afghanistan right before the Taliban’s return. Naru, the only camerawoman at Kabul’s main TV station, struggles to keep custody of her three-year-old son after leaving her serial cheater husband. Convinced no good men exist in her country, Naru is caught off guard when Qodrat, Kabul TV’s most important journalist, gives her a career opportunity. As the two crisscross the city reporting on its last days of freedom, sparks fly and Naru starts to doubt herself: could there actually be a good man out there?
May 2026
Magnus is a photographer specializing in family portraits. When he plans for his mother’s 75th birthday he discovers family secrets that will change his life.
Oct 2006
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Aug 2014
In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.
Aug 2011
An aspiring musician nearing thirty grapples with the end of her carefree twenties as life demands she embrace maturity and responsibility.
Oct 2026
A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background.
Jan 1986
A documentary following Norwegian punk, new wave, post punk and hardcore music from 1977 to 2015.
Nov 2015
A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
Oct 2015
Frozen heart tells the story of Roald Amundsen, a well known polar hero from Norway.
Jan 1999
Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself.
Oct 2002
The investigation of a mysterious serial-killer in a mountain village, set in Norway in the mid 1300s.
Oct 2014
This movie is about at least two things: 1. Lies and self-deception often creates trouble. 2. Pride has never made anyone happy.
May 2006
Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.
Nov 2024
Three siblings, Jiwan, Dinesh and Rainu grows up in Northern India, knowing their uncle living in Oslo, Norway. Jiwan stats to learn Norwegian, because he hope to follow his uncle to Norway.
Mar 1986
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Jul 2018