Norway

Plot summary:
The storyline centers around Sonell, a 30-something bachelor working as a translator of comics, who, when he laughs, makes a weird sound, frightening people away.
In order to deal with this he sees a psychiatrist…Read More »

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A harrowing and even ironic story of the first large, well-educated generation that was born after the war. The film tells the story of psychiatrist and Assistant Chief Athletic, and his good friend, theater director Eigil. Both are now past their youth, when they were politically active on the left. Now both are well established in powerful positions in the community. Both Athletic and Eigil have broken marriages behind them. Both have children who do not live with them. Both are struggling to keep up a facade that constantly threatens to fracture.Read More »

Synopsis:
‘The main character Dag falls in love with his young French language teacher. It becomes a complicated love story when Dag’s class mate Karin is also fancying Dag, and Dag’s best friend, Roald, is deeply in love with Karin.’
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Aina wants to escape from it all, but the house of fools is not a peaceful place to be. After throwing herself through a shop window, Aina is taken in for treatment. She is forced to join therapy groups, riding lessons and cleansing conversations with those who wish to help her. Especially with Stetson, named after his own hat, who considers it honourable to bring a broken soul back to life. In the house of fools, Aina learns that sheer madness usually makes a lot of sense.Read More »

Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.

It is a film about pigs, cows and chicken. Black and white. Without words. Without music. Victor Kossakovsky is offering not just a mesmerizing poetic work of art but also a wonderful life experience. We get to know Gunda the sow, her family and neighbors, and it gives us the reason to think about the secret of consciousness and the value of life of those with whom we share this planet.Read More »

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, while French Left Bank Cinema flourished, parallel movements flowered in other countries; in Norway, the trend enabled director Erik Løchen’s career to flourish.
Løchen had made The Hunt in 1959, a fascinating, modernist work that paralleled the better-known experiments with cinematic storytelling of Resnais, Godard, Antonioni and others. Løchen returned to feature films in 1972 with an even more radical cinematic experience.
The story of a film crew trying to make a political film, Remonstrance brilliantly captures the posing and grandstanding that sometimes accompanies political discussions around correct form in art, but Løchen goes his characters one better. He designed Remonstrance so that its five reels could be shown in any order, rendering 120 possible versions of the film.
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An unexpected selection of Munch’s late paintings are collected for the exhibition Karl Ove Knausgårds sets up at the Munch Museum. Joachim Trier follows him on the way to the opening.Read More »

Synopsis wrote:
The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as “Søndagsengler”, is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher’s Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her father.Read More »

The legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal’s epic 4,300 miles crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, to prove that this could have been done in pre-Columbian times for South Americans to settle in Polynesia.Read More »