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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shepherd Isa must obey his father's strict order to bring back the lost lamb. On top of the mountain, his little brother and companion, Hamid, is wounded and Isa must decide whether he should do as told or follow his own instinct.
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
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
A foreign ice skater moves to a very small norwegian village
Jan 2006
While driving to a wedding, a Kurdish family hits a wild animal. When they get out of the car, they see the animal, still alive, at the side of the snowy road. The father, Aram, is forced to decide whether he should kill the animal or attempt to rescue it. This is not Aram’s only struggle as he navigates his place both in his new country as well as within his own family.
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.
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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.
A boy is pressured to lose his virginity, and now his childhood trauma will no longer be ignored.
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