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The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla that picks Jonna for adoption. It soon becomes clear that they have more things in common than they initially thought. When they start becoming a family, Tord from the local authorities shows up and threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.
Apr 2021
A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He contacts Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who will become his mouthpiece and articulate what is wrong. But along the way the director becomes distracted by another person, a young, fumbling girl reminiscent of himself.
Jun 2005
The comedy-mystery centers on Helge, a prime suspect in the theft of millions. What follows is a narrow trash can escape and the acquaintance of an obnoxious dump-dwelling rat named Dante.
Mar 2026
Time of Plenty is an essayistic documentary about man-made climate change, Easter Island, and our place in the universe. Written and directed by Robin Jensen Narrated by Renate Reinsve Produced by Mikrofilm AS
May 2026
Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?
Jun 2024
Two construction workers have a serious conversation about life.
Sep 2008
Inspired by "Me and My Moulton"
Jan 2014
A marathonrace takes place in Lappland during the cold beutiful winter.
Jan 2015
When 17-year-old Anna Lorentz returns to Narvik in 1940 with her older sisters and brother, they find their town destroyed. They recover the family home, and survive the years that follow by running a hair salon. All this time, Anna nurtures her own dream.
Oct 2021
Is there really such a thing as coincidence? R. is scouring bookstore after bookstore in search of a remarkable book that he yearns to read. He finally finds it in the most unexpected way. A playful and offbeat reflection on the surprising moments where you get the feeling that everything is somehow connected. Based on a short story by Paul Auster.
Feb 2015
A young girl becomes instantly famous after she catches the most average-sized fish in the world.
Jan 2017
A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.
Feb 2006
A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.
Sep 2014
Five-year-old Mathilde will soon have guests, and her father asks her to clean his toy cars. But Mathilde would rather have a car race on the living room floor with her imaginary friends Morning Bird and Marmot.
Aug 2024
It's summer and the rain is pouring down. Mathilde feeling bored, wishing it was winter and snow. Then she could go on winter holiday right away. Mathildes imaginary friends Morningbird and Murmelton are small enough to go on winter holiday in the freezer and an big adventure awaits them all.
Aug 2014
In a big city, several characters in need of affection are each looking for a relationship and they find themselves in absurd, comical and touching situations.
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Contemporary tale of young forbidden love, inspired by Norwegian folklore and medieval gore. Set in Norway during The Black Death, the film turns on the pious noble girl Astrid (18) who falls in love with the pagan outlaw Eilev (18), whose blood is believed to hold a cure for the deadly disease. When Eilev is captured, Astrid faces a devastating dilemma: lose him or become the monster she fears most - Pesta - the plague itself.
Tindra is the lighthouse keeper’s daughter. One night, while her father is out fishing, the lighthouse goes out and a boat is heading straight towards the reef. Tindra tries to fix the lighthouse, but instead she sets it on fire.
Jan 2016
Toothbrushing is not always easy.
Jan 1994
There are people in the basement of Ila prison and administrative detention center with serious mental sicknesses isloated from the other prisoners and the world. They don't get psychiatric treatment and become more sick and dangerous.
Apr 2018