The Ultimate Introduction to the Cinema of Norway

Un gruppo di studenti indaga su una serie di misteriose uccisioni di orsi ma scopre che ci sono cose molto più pericolose in giro là fuori. Iniziano a seguire un misterioso bracconiere, scoprendo che egli è in realtà un cacciatore di troll.

A man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.

In a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.

A scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.

When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, sensitive would-be poet Elling is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and woman-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own. Initially, the simple act of going around the corner for groceries is a challenge. Through a friendship born of desperate dependence, the skittish Elling and the boisterous, would-be ladies' man Kjell Bjarne discover that not only can they survive on the outside--they can thrive. But as their courage grows, they find oddball ways to cope with society and strike up friendships in the unlikeliest places.

Due investigatori criminali arrivano in una città nel nord della Norvegia per aiutare la polizia locale a risolvere l'omicidio di una ragazza. Quindi, si verifica un secondo omicidio.

On the background of a hunger strike to save a famous salmon river from being dammed up for electrical power development, the Sami Ole Raino believes in his own protests. He plans a sabotage.

"That Fancy Furcoat of Yours" is a Norwegian anti-fur movie made by Bredo Greve and Svein Krøvel back in 1977. Greve was hired to make the movie by the Swiss company "European Committee for the Protection of Seals and other fur Animals", and was shot guerilla-style at a fur-animal farm near Oslo. Despite its good reception, it has rarely been seen by the public.

Anarkistic fable where we follow the teaching of a modern witch, reconstructed by historical and anthropological knowledge, inspired by the books by Carlos Castaneda.

Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car.

A meta-film about a film and the common man in our own political reality. A reality that is just scenes of a film without any cinematic development, but which might be plain reality tomorrow.

Kristoball can be seen as a unique expression of the time; 1960 heading towards 1968 - individuality and playful modernism, the Vietnam war and awakening political consciousness .. Kristoball was in 1995 named one of the 100 best short films made under the short film festival in Clermont- Ferrand.

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.

A Norwegian fairy-tale about a young man trying to find shelter for the night.

"The Underground" - A strong visual depiction of people and the environment on Kolsåsbanen and at the same time an exciting time frame with political overtones.

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. Nevertheless, all the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

A young man named Ashlad is getting out on a journey in which he attempts to win both the king's daughter and half the kingdom. But it shall be more difficult than he had imagined.

Two men attracted to the same woman are attending a trip with her in the Mountains during the bird hunting season. A triangular love drama ending with tragedy. Or is it, really?

During World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun.

Once upon a time there was a poor boy with a fiddle, enthusiastic courage, and with no worries whatever hit him. Oe day he went out in the world to make a living.

A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

In the poor Norway in the early 1800s Gjest Baardsen starts off like a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. Based on the real character which became the poor mans hero, and got lots of help to get away from the law.

The motherless moose calf acts like a cow, and the strange animal is the start of a lot of stories. Hunter's aren't interesting in hunting him down, except one. He has decided to do it in, the troll-moose.

Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a forest hut with his faithful dog. Meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant, they feel strongly attracted to each other, but neither understands the other's love.