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Browse 38 movies from Den Norske Filmskolen
Ida bumps into her old music teacher from elementary school. This unexpected meeting sets off a journey through a city where many people speak, but few manage to express anything worthwhile.
Jun 2024
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Between the darkness of her dying mother's hotel room and the heat of the sun outside, 17-year-old Fanny is split between grief and lust.
Weekend-dad Kim-Andre is trying hard to be the perfect father for his daughter Mina, but must deal with his mother when she steals the trump card of his - a newly renovated Ford Mustang.
Dec 2016
Anarchy emerges at a public pool birthday party when a group of small girls push the limits of their strength and power. Underdog Ronja challenges the girls' alpha female to battle for dominance. The game escalates quickly, and as the thirst for power grows, Ronja and the other girls lose control.
Aug 2018
A teenage girl and her band of misfits form a young group of hipster-Nazis. The friends are like family. They live by their own rules and push the limits of morality, but eventually loyalty is put to the test.
Jan 2021
Vebjørn (soon to be 30) has never had a girlfriend. He works as a mascot and ski instructor at a skiing resort. One day he crashes into the ski tourist, Polina, ruining her holiday. While he tries to make up for the accident, unexpected chemistry between the two arises. But Vebjørn's anxiety around girls soon catches up with him, as he struggles to get over the idea that no one can like him in a romantic way.
Aug 2022
We follow Renate, a boundary-pushing theater director who is fighting to keep her career alive. When she starts to encounter resistance, she takes extreme measures to fight her cause. But where is the line between artistic freedom and responsibility in creative art, and when is enough enough?
Sep 2024
A foreign ice skater moves to a very small norwegian village
Jan 2006
Dounia is in love with Norwegian Erik, which makes her cultural chameleon way of living challenging when he wants to get to know her Moroccan culture. Can her different worlds unite, and can love overcome the cultural differences?
Jun 2021
Psykodramaterapauten Solveig comes to the secluded island "Nidøy" for trying out their methods on the island's amateur theater company. A seemingly simple task is shaping up to be a trip to the 'self' - and the beginning of a surreal, metaphysical and very Jungian trills fable.
Jun 2008
The Comet follows 20-year-old Gustav and his search to find his father who mysteriously disappeared 12 years ago when a comet passed close to earth.
Dec 2017
When Tyra returns to visit her family, on the 20th anniversary of her beloved father’s death, everything changes when her Dad comes knocking on the door that same evening - forcing the family to examine what grief has done to them.
Sep 2022
The Oslo schools provide good test results, but they also have one of the country's most comprehensive test systems. In primary school, students have up to 325 tests in addition to regular exams. Who really wins all the testing? Are the good test results at the expense of something else?
Jan 2015
A window into the limbo-like life-on-hold situation of two brothers, Peshawa and Komar, at the Drevsjø asylum center.
Jan 2020
After surviving a car accident, thirteen-year-old Edvin isolates himself from friends and family. When his father forces him to go to rehabilitation, he can no longer avoid dealing with his trauma.
Jun 2018
In Sorry season we follow 10-year-old Tyra, who finds herself in the middle of a confusing family tragedy as the adults shield her from the truth about what is happening to her playful and cool uncle.
Lea lives a protected life, traveling alongside her father on his business trips. During one night in Oslo, their tightly knit bond is tested when her father's business associate takes interest in her.
Aug 2014
Martin is going on a blinddate and in his internal government the ministers are preparing for a routine State visit. But then Nora is revealed and tactics need to be changed. Fast! Nora is not interested in foreign political smalltalk, she is after government secrets. The ridiculed Home Secretary is slowly coming to life, but in his way stands a paranoid Defense Secretary. Only a coup can save Martin now!
Jun 2002
Semir, a man with one foot in Norway and one in Bosnia, finds that his two separate lives suddenly collide. After a fight, he is hospitalized and wakes up to find both his Norwegian and Bosnian family in the same room.
Jun 2012