Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.
The poet Eirik Havnes performs a self-written poem as 50 filmmakers, dancers, extras and musicians are in action. Livet av Havnes is a hybrid between poetry, theater and concert. A live existential journey through Oslo's streets over the course of 45 minutes on 12 September 2020 between 19:02 and 19:47.
Who are we? Where do we come from? With private recordings, unique archive footage and stories from famous and unknown people, Trondheimsreisen takes a close and personal look at the history of Trondheim.
The world is uninhabitable and flooded, and everyone has fled. Except for John and his concerned boyfriend Benjamin. When Benjamin finds a radio and wants to flee, John’s utopian dream of creating a self-sustained world starts falling apart. John embarks on a destructive mission to force them to stay together.
Director Guro Saniola Bjerk has followed the children in a school class for ten years. How did they do? Educators, parents and politicians discuss the Norwegian school like never before, but there is one voice that is almost absent in the debate - namely the students'.
Every year an average of one thousand American police officers are arrested for misconduct or corruption, and the abuse of power is a legacy that stretches back to the dawn of US policing. BLUE CODE OF SILENCE tells the true story about a crooked police officer in 1970s New York who brought down the most corrupt police unit in American history. Who was detective Bob Leuci?
A teenage girl sneaks out of her bedroom window to get drunk and must use all her strength to get home safely.
Off the grid is a documentary about Ola Ravn’s (27) dream of living on his own terms. He decides to build an off-the-grid mini house in the middle of Trondheim, Norway without taking out a loan. The house purifies rainwater, gets its power from the sun and all garbage and waste are composted, giving him economical freedom and a sustainable lifestyle. This way he wants to prove that you can live both soberly and richly. His father, however, isn’t convinced that this is a good idea.
From Japan to Copenhagen, and from the sophisticated to the grotesque. Opposites meet in the Japanese pianist Eriko Makimura, who now has to break with her past.
The Psychonaut is a short hybrid documentary film showing how it's like to travel in one's own mind with the help of shrooms.
Driven by the desire to understand her inner truth as a marginalised woman in Iran, Negin Ahmadi embarks on a self-exploring precarious adventure to meet the Kurdish women fighters in the war zone of North Syria.
A photshoot begins as a professional meeting between two modern and successful women, but gradually develops into a power struggle with roots in their past.
In the mid 90s a gang of young criminals roamed the streets of Ranheim, a working class suburb of Trondheim. They receptively executed successful heists stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of soda and beer from the northbound freight train. No one expected the culprits to be young boys aged 11 to 15 years old.
A lonely Norwegian man loses his eye while celebrating Christmas by himself in China.
Four people. Two stories. An indictment. Who owns the truth? We follow the consequences of an indictment.
The eccentric sound artist Eirik Havnes is preparing his most ambitious project ever: A symphonic masterpiece with the nature as his orchestra.
Mina (8), a Kurdish girl raised in Norway, has indirectly become a victim of the war on terror. She knows more about the situation than the adults think.
A boy in a wheelchair gets a wild idea when he meets a free-range hen! He decides to help the hen do something he himself is not capable of.
