Norway

  • Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen – Izzat (2005)

    2001-2010ActionCrimeNordic NoirNorwayUlrik Imtiaz Rolfsen

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    Izzat paints an image of Oslo, Norway’s capital, and its crime-environment in the mid-90’s. We follow Wasim and his involvement in Eastside Crew, the crime-gang mostly consisting of second-generation Pakistanis in Norway. What makes this movie extra special, is the realness of it all. Based on actual events, the film marks a flashy debut for Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, the director.Read More »

  • Eskil Vogt – Blind (2014)

    2011-2020DramaEskil VogtNorway

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    Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home – a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. But Ingrid’s real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take overRead More »

  • Iram Haq – Jeg er din aka I Am Yours (2013)

    2011-2020DramaIram HaqNorway

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    Mina is a young single mother livingin Oslo with her 6 year old son Felix. She is an Norwegian Pakistani with a troublesome relationship with her family. Mina is constantly looking for love and has relations to different men, however none of the relationships bearing any hope of lasting very long. So when Mina meets Jesper, a Swedish film director, she falls head over heals in love. ~ nfi.no

    Twentysomething single mother Mina is seriously at a loose end. She wants to be an actress but blows every audition. She seems uninterested in, and incapable of pursuing, any other career. And she’s in a casual relationship with an already-attached and painfully self-absorbed man. A chance meeting with a Swedish filmmaker opens up new possibilities, but looming over everything is the one constant in Mina’s life: her mother’s disapproval – a disapproval so deep and so gargantuan it’s brought about Mina’s relentlessly self-destructive behaviour, which has apparently made her entire family outcasts in Norway’s expatriate Pakistani community. ~ tiff
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  • Ferran Audí – The Frost (2009)

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    A liberal interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Little Eyolf. When their only son dies from a sudden accident, a rift breaks Alfred and Rita’s seemingly trouble free marriage, and they rush headlong into catastrophe. As they do so, theirs and their friends’ lives are changed for forever.Read More »

  • Hans Petter Moland – Kjærlighetens kjøtere AKA Zero Kelvin (1995)

    1991-2000DramaHans Petter MolandNorwayThriller

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    The opening sequence of Zero Kelvin scrolls across a bleak, vast Norwegian wilderness that is virtually inhospitable for men and most beasts. This white, magnificent landscape exudes tremendous beauty, but it also represents death for those foolish enough to fight its dominance. What happens to a civilized human being when he spends enough time is this environment? In this tightly constructed character study, director Hans Petter Moland explores the effect of this land on the fragile human psyche.

    Gard Eisvold is a restless, poor young writer living in Oslo who decides to get a little more worldly by joining an Arctic fur-trapping expedition. Leaving behind his girlfriend, Eisvold travels to Greenland, where he’s confronted with the dual harshness of the elements and his profane station-captain, played with brilliant malevolence by the great Stellan Skårsgard. The captain doesn’t take kindly to having a violin-playing, poetry-writing college boy around the cabin, and he begins to torture Eisvold in a cunning if none too subtle fashion. Soon, of course, they’re at each other’s throats despite each needing the other’s help to survive the wilderness.
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  • Aksel Hennie – Uno (2004)

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    Taken from IMDB:Uno is a story from inner-city Oslo about David, a twentyfive-year-old with few prospects for the future. His days are spent hanging around with petty criminals at an inner-city gym. Still, it’s better than home: His father is terminally ill, his brother is mentally handicapped, and he’s unable to connect with his mother.But then, as his father is on his deathbed, the gym is raided by the police. David chooses to betray his friends in the hope of reaching his father for a last farewell. But it’s too late. With his father dead and his mother grief-stricken, he’s also forced to take responsibility for his brother on top of fighting off his former underworld friends. The crisis makes David realize what’s truly important in his life: his family. He starts assuming responsibility for both his past and his future. By losing everything, David is given a chance to start over from scratch and rebuild his life.Read More »

  • Joachim Trier – Oslo, 31. august (2011)

    2011-2020ArthouseJoachim TrierNorway

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    Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn’t seen in a long while. Thirty-four-year-old Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, all the people he has let down. He is still relatively young, but feels his life in many ways is already over. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope to see some future by morning. Read More »

  • Liv Ullmann – Changing (1977)

    1971-1980BooksLiv UllmannNorway

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    By Liv Ullmann
    (Translated by the author in colloboration with Gerry Bothmer and Erik Friis)

    Published by Knopf, 1977
    (Origianly published in Norwegian as Forandringen, 1976)

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    She opens herself to us as she writes about working with Bergman (“No studio is as silent as his… To film with Ingmar is long stretches of happiness where everything seems real”): about living with Bergman (“His dream was the woman who had been created in one peice, but I crumbled into bits and pieces if he wasn’t careful”):about travelling with him: about his monumental genius and idiosyncrasies; She lets us feel the almost overwhelming flow of her own feelings for her young daughter; She tells us about her first love, about the husband she left, the family she came from, the people she relies on..Read More »

  • Erik Poppe – Schpaaa aka Bunch of Five (1998)

    Drama1991-2000CrimeErik PoppeNordic NoirNorway

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    Jonas and Emir are members of a criminal gang of 14-15 year-olds in Oslo. Emir has slight brain-damage after being beaten by his father as a 5-year-old, and Jonas’ biggest problem is stopping Emir from hitting people on the head. One day, they are offered a job by a gang of drug-dealers: Deliver a packet of heroin to one guy and beat up another. This is the start of a chain of events that sends their lives spiraling out of control.Read More »

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