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Browse 41 movies from Medieoperatørene
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
Mar 2024
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.
Sep 2020
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.
Nov 2022
How do we choose to tell the stories from our past?
Sep 2012
A sister and a brother and the fear of fornication.
Aug 2000
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.
Sep 2019
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.
Apr 2014
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.
Oct 2019
How happy can you be? is an attempt to make the practical manual – “Your guide to happiness” by using a modern, scientific approach: science, practical empirical attempts to measure happiness.
Oct 2005
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.
May 2021
In 1948, a secret club was established in Norway when homosexuality was a criminal offence. Although curtains were always drawn and new members were put through a screening process, this rare sanctuary provided a safe space for meeting and dancing at a time when being outed meant social ruin. With humour and a touch of sadness, some of the survivors of those days share their joyous stories of love, lust and politics.
Dec 2003
A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.
Oct 2011
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.
Mar 2022
In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children. It revealed generations of negligence, abuse and suffering, supported by a mass of evidence and previously unseen archival footage. As the case goes to court, the community remains defiant against a judicial system whose attitudes highlight fissures in the purported equal treatment of all citizens. The community’s battle aims to break a vicious cycle of racism and to achieve meaningful lasting change for future generations.
Apr 2022
Roza's song gives a unique insight into the Norwegian-Romanian community. The film follows Roza's dream of making the Norwegian-Romanian community's first CD.
Apr 2016
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.
Mar 2015
Hidden between a row of fishermen gutting fish, standing on a floor full of blood and intestines we find Tobias (10). In front of him is a big box filled with cod heads. With an almost frightening pace he slices and cuts the tongues off the heads, and puts them on a big nail. In the northern part of Norway Tobias and many other children work as cod tongue cutters. The tongues are considered a delicacy, and they are exported around the world to countries like China and Japan. But in Northern Norway they are simply everyday food when in season. The children start from the age of 6, and can earn a lot of money during a winter season. This job has always been reserved for the children, as long as the fishing industry has existed.
Mar 2017
In 2016, director Charlotte Røhder Tvedt sent out an open call for people all across Norway to document their world in the form of a film clip. More than 900 entries were submitted and from these contributions, Røhder Tvedt assembled a collage of beautiful everyday moments, personal confessions and kinetic bursts of dance and movement. As the film cycles through expressions of love, loneliness, joy and sorrow, patterns and connections appear and it becomes clear that Between Us is a film about how we relate to one another.
Jun 2017
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.
Aug 2003
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?
May 2009