100 norske filmer du må se (100 Norwegian films you must see)
This is a list of the one hundred and one films listed in the book "100 norske filmer du må se" (100 Norwegian films you must see), published in 2008.
The list, as stated in the book, is more a list of Norwegian films worth seeing, rather than an attempt to create a definitive list of "the best Norwegian films of all time". Something that's made pretty clear by the inclusion of for instance Aune Sands 1995 film Dis - en historie om kjærlighet. A film that is in fact commonly known as the "the worst Norwegian film of all time", but is also known as a film that i so bad it's hilarious. But the list is first and foremost a presentation of lots of evidence that Norwegian film is better than it's reputation.
The list, as stated in the book, is more a list of Norwegian films worth seeing, rather than an attempt to create a definitive list of "the best Norwegian films of all time". Something that's made pretty clear by the inclusion of for instance Aune Sands 1995 film Dis - en historie om kjærlighet. A film that is in fact commonly known as the "the worst Norwegian film of all time", but is also known as a film that i so bad it's hilarious. But the list is first and foremost a presentation of lots of evidence that Norwegian film is better than it's reputation.
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- DirectorGunnar SommerfeldtStarsAmund RydlandKaren PoulsenRagna WettergreenAfter the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it's criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsEinar SissenerTove TellbackStub WibergTore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgården on the other side of the river, where beautiful Berit lives. Tore falls in love with her, but her father has promised her to rich Gjermund. As her wedding to Gjermund draws near, Berit runs away and seeks refuge with Tore and his parents. She soon falls deathly ill but recovers, asking for, and getting, her father's permission to marry Tore. Jealous Gjermund is determined to prevent their wedding, however, in a dramatic climactic scene playing out around the rushing river.
- DirectorRasmus BreisteinStarsAase ByeGunhild Schytte-JacobsenHenry GleditschBased on the novel "Marit Skjølte" by Kristofer Janson, this Norwegian silent movie tells the story of young Marit and her love, Anders, who travels to America to seek his fortune. Without Marit's knowledge, he returns to marry a farm heiress.
- DirectorWalter FyrstStarsTove TellbackBengt DjurbergEllen IsefiærThe journalist Karl Kraft solves a case about weapon and ammunition-smuggling in Oslo, which leads to him getting to know Lilly, which is involved, at least until she meets Karl.
- DirectorGeorge SchnéevoigtStarsMona MårtensonTryggve LarssenHarald SchwenzenA spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsEinar SissenerAase ByeAgnethe Schibsted-HanssonDen arbeidsløsa Harald får bo hos dobbelt-Petra, hvor også Alvilde bor med sitt barn som hun har med en sjøgutt som stakk av. Harald treffer sjøgutten og denger ham opp. Harald har trodd han ikke kan arbeide, men oppdager nå at han er frisk og sterk. Alvilde blir forelsket i ham. De gifter seg samtidig som barnet blir døpt sammen med alle andre "løsunger" som en fanatisk kapellan har holdt borte fra kirken, men som kirketjener Evensen har så meget til overs for.
- DirectorEinar SissenerStarsEinar SissenerTore SegelckeHans Jacob NilsenEight young people decide to detach themselves from all moral prejudices in their love life. They travel to an idyllic island in the archipelago. A paradise is founded, based on a thesis that the great love is no more. Eroticism is their choice. The friends is strongly influenced by the ideas of Sigmund Freud.
- DirectorGyda ChristensenTancred IbsenStarsHans Jacob NilsenUnni TorkildsenJan VaageA postal clerk is robbed and threatened to his life, giving up the money. In his community he is seen upon as a coward, ruining his family. After moving he meets a man who seems to knows it, wanting to help him regain his life and honor.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsAlfred MaurstadLars TvindeGuri StormoenAn orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with him, however, as he forces himself on her and makes her steal and beg for a living. Meanwhile Fændrik's sister, who has been left penniless on shore by her deceitful brother, joins forces with Josefa's fiancé, Oscar, in a search for the missing pair.
- DirectorRasmus BreisteinStarsEva SlettoHarald Heide SteenRagnhild HaldMilja and Julius are a happy couple working at the factory, and everything is good until Petrina shows up at the arena. Julius is bewitched by the girl, who gets him to drink and steal. Milja is soon left alone with the shame - and a bastard child. The child is placed with Hønse-Lovisa while Milja is at the factory, but a doctor casts his eyes on Milja's young. He's looking for children to adopt to rich west-side people. In her desperation, Milja gives away the dearest thing she owns, for the kid to have better conditions than she manages to give him. It is Hønse-Lovisa that convinces her that the material benefits can never compensate for real love and care.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsAlfred MaurstadVibeke FalkJoachim Holst-JensenIn 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.
- DirectorLeif SindingStarsHenny SkjønbergEinar VaageHans BilleUnder julefeiringen hos sorenskriver Bals blir det hemmelig forlovelse mellom to av hans vakre døtre og to studenter på julebesøk. Husdragen, tante Pose, spionerer på de unge. Tante Pose vil også gjerne bli gift, og kaster seg over den blyge sakfører Plum. Han redder seg i siste liten, og så blir det rett fra for de unge.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsAlfred MaurstadFolkman SchaanningWenche FossYoung fisherman Tønnes want to get rich, to get his revenge over Consul Krøger, who has taken over his childhood home. After acquiring a shop he gets in position of getting what he wants.
- DirectorToralf SandøStarsLeif JusterErnst DiesenJoachim Holst-JensenThe detectives Gløgg and Rask is put on the task of finding out what has happened to the lost sausage maker H. Brand. They find him after a lot of trouble.
- DirectorRasmus BreisteinStarsAlfred MaurstadEva SlettoKarl HolterKnut Skaret, nicknamed Trysil-Knut because of his skiing abilities is in love with Åse to her father's disbelief. A major conflict arises between Sweden and Norway, and Knut is assigned to ski all the way to Stockholm to prevent a war.
- DirectorJean DrévilleTitus Vibe-MüllerStarsRaoul DautryFrédéric Joliot-CurieLew KowarskiA factual reconstruction of the sabotage which took place to prevent Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during World War II.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsOla IseneSonja WigertEgil Hjorth-JenssenA conservative old bachelor buys an apartment previously owned by an artist who died suddenly. He has a weird feeling about the place from the start, and gets more and more obsessed by the previous owner's possessions and way of living. Finding some loveletters written by the deceased's mistress, Dott, gives him an irressistible urge to get to know her better.
- DirectorEdith CarlmarStarsClaus WieseBjørg Riiser-LarsenEva BerghThe story of a working man who has a gorgeous fiancee but she falls for a rich older woman - who turns out to be a femme fatale.
- DirectorUlf GreberArne SkouenStarsTom TellefsenIvar ThorkildsenPål Bang-HansenThe movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like unemployment, strike, poverty, alcoholism, absent fathers, wise and tired mothers, the dream of a better life and the friendship between the boys in the street.
- DirectorThor HeyerdahlStarsThor HeyerdahlHerman WatzingerErik HesselbergA documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsPeter LindgrenIvar SvendsenBritta Lech-HanssenTwo police officers lie dead. Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav are on their flight. Originally a 1926 story, this film was banned for more than 50 years, due to a high court order banning the film for the sake of human privacy.
- DirectorNils R. MüllerStarsHenki KolstadInger Marie AndersenNanna StenersenPetter and Kari meet, fall in love, and get married. But it is not easy for a young couple of limited means to find a place to live. Moving in with Petter's parents proves impossible, Kari can't endure her mother-in-law's constant interference. Trying to build a house of their own is halted by so much red tape, and affordable rentals is hard to come by. When Kari gets pregnant things doesn't get any easier.
- DirectorEdith CarlmarStarsAstri JacobsenAdolf BjerkeEspen SkjønbergA young teacher comes back home after a mountain trip, and finds his wife missing. Noone has seen her since the day he left for the trip. The police starts an investigation starts to find out what has happened.
- DirectorEdith CarlmarStarsTurid HaalandStig Egede-NissenVigdis RøisingThe Bråten family lives on the top floor in a sublet appartment in the suburbs of Oslo. The father, mother and 5 kids all share the space of this 1 room and a kitchen appartment. The father is mostly silent, except for when he screams for thr kids to "Shut Up!" The mother is the one keeping the family together, as the kids keep giving their parents a hard time. 16 year old Maiken suddenly wants to move out, while 14 year old Sverre is caught for car theft. It's never a quiet moment for these 2 parents, all the while the neighbours are shaking their heads, and sigh: "Never anything else but trouble".
- DirectorMichael ForlongStarsLeif LarsenPalmar BjørnøyAnthony OliverDuring World War II, a small group of Norwegian sailors take refugees from Norway to the Shetland Islands in small fishing boats, equipped only with low-caliber weapons to protect themselves from German airplanes and patrol boats.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsClaes GillElisabeth BangHarald Heide SteenTim works at a newspaper during day time, and is a pyromaniac at night. Only the newspaper's editor, which also is a childhood friend, knows about Tim's dark side. Until Margrethe also gets to know.
- DirectorErik BorgeStarsGrete NordråMartin GistiWilliam NyrénThe little village is exited after their prodigy the poet is back on a visit. But he's not the only one back on a visit.
- DirectorKåre BergstrømRados NovakovicStarsMilan MilosevicMilivoje ZivanovicAntun NalisYugoslav Partisans, captured by Germans, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population helps some Partisans survive or flee to neutral Sweden.
- DirectorEdith CarlmarStarsLeif JusterUnni BernhoftFrank RobertAt a high mountain hotel in Norway the porter Poppe tries to do the best he can for the guests with an often unhelpful piccolo Rudolf. This, however, leads to a lot of problems, and Poppe thinks some of the guests behave inappropriate.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsJack FjeldstadHenny MoanAlf MallandDuring 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.
- DirectorEdith CarlmarStarsTore FossSonja WigertAtle MertonThe movie takes place in a company that sells baby toys. It is time to fill a leading position, and it is known the owner of the company only places married men on leading positions. This leads a young bachelor to "borrow" his best friends wife to have a chance at the position.
- DirectorKåre BergstrømStarsErling LindahlBjørg EnghHenny MoanA group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It's a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.
- DirectorErik LøchenStarsRolf SøderBente BørsumTor StokkeTwo 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?
- DirectorEdith CarlmarStarsLiv UllmannAtle MertonRolf SøderThe story of a young Gerd, played by Liv Ullmann in her first leading role, who falls in love with a young boy. She is considered a 'loose' woman, and the boy's family does not accept their relationship. The young couple run away to a cabin in the woods where they meet a rogue man who tests their relationship.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsIvar SvendsenKari ØksnevadRolf KirkvaagFrom his secret radio transmitter in the tower of a woman's hospital in Oslo during WW2, Per keeps contact with London, while being sought after by the German occupiers. Based on true events about war-hero Knut Haugland.
- DirectorNils-Reinhardt ChristensenStarsMargrete RobsahmToralv MaurstadHenki Kolstad(1961 aka LINE) Margarete Robsahm, Toralv Maurstad, Henki Kolstad, Elisabeth Bang.. Youthful drama about a young guy and his struggles with his hatred of his father. Not even a relationship with a good-looking girl seems to cool his emotions. This video has been manufactured from the best quality video master currently available; audio or image quality may vary.
- DirectorPer GjersøeNils R. MüllerStarsPer ChristensenWenche FossLiv UllmannTonny is a schoolboy in fostercare who serves his first sentence in a jail for adults. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release. We get to see his experiences in prison and his relationship with his mother, friends and girlfriend Kari. Just like Bjørneboe's novel, the movie is a critical note to the debate how society took care of youth on the edge during the 50s and 60s.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsToralv MaurstadHenny MoanAlf MallandWartime 1944. Oddmund stays at a remote cabin in the high mountains, about to lead 12 refugees out of the country. But he also awaits the most important person is his life, Ragnhild, which isn't coming.
- DirectorNils-Reinhardt ChristensenStarsRolf Kirkvaag Jr.Gisle StraumeArne LieStompa starts a new school, Langåsen in Stakavik where he meets his new friends Bodo, Bergen, Nottero and Sorlandet, and finds tangled up in troubles with a spider, a fire drill and a swimming contest leading to detention.
- DirectorKnut AndersenStarsHenki KolstadTone DanielsenSolfrid HeierAfter his divorce, a lone writer receives a summer visit from his daughter and two of her friends. He has for far too long revolved around his own problems falling into dull idleness. But not so old that he can't be touched by young love.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 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 his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorPål LøkkebergStarsVibeke LøkkebergPer Theodor HaugenBente BørsumA day in the life of photo model Liv. But it's no ordinary day. She's break up with her fiance, father and her own empty life as a model, and has to find a new place to live. But is it that easy to make a clean break?
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsLiv UllmannPer OscarssonWolf von GersumIn Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.
- DirectorKnut BohwimStarsArve OpsahlCarsten ByhringSverre HolmEgon Olsen has been behind bars for some time, but that hasn't stopped the criminal mastermind from making a plan to steal a very valuable golden statue and to never land behind bars again. So as soon as he gets out of prison, the first thing he does is contact his old associates, and together they prepare for one of the most daring, and hilarious, robberies Norway has ever seen.
- DirectorØyvind VennerødStarsSigrid HuunLillebjørn NilsenGeorg RichterNorwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from the west end of Oslo, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is safer than alcohol. Together with some friends they decide to try the drug.
- DirectorPål Bang-HansenStarsRolv WesenlundTom TellefsenPer ChristensenDouglas is a slippery stuck-up policeman, working in the intelligence services, who thinks his status makes it ok to make other people's life miserable.
- DirectorPål Bang-HansenStarsRolv WesenlundBjørn SandThea StabellThe married couple Ingrid and Olav Femte meets unforeseen troubles and bureaucracy when they build a new house. A hopeless and hilarious meet with the system.
- DirectorErik LøchenStarsEspen SkjønbergPer Theodor HaugenKari RasmussenA 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.
- DirectorKnud Leif ThomsenStarsIngerid VardundRoy BjørnstadEdith CarlmarLina is strong willed and self confident due to her life without a man on her farm. Still she longs for the man in her life, but have never seen the opportunity to live out her longing. But then Gilbert is back after 20 years in America.
- DirectorArne Philip FraasStarsAndreas DiesenÅge AleksandersenNick GrahamThe first Norwegian music film shows the connection between folk music rhythms and rock rhythms through a concert Sunday June 17th 1973 at the Holmenkollen ski jump.
- DirectorArnljot BergStarsErik AnderssonRoy BjørnstadMorten AndresenRobert and his son, Bobby, are having a difficult time in Oslo, Norway during WW2. Robert is trying to take care of his son, but at the same time he is struggling with his addiction to alcohol, women and scams. Bobby befriends a German soldier, who is teaching him fencing, but Bobby's connection to his father is mixed-up between idolizing and observing his many mistakes.
- DirectorBo HermanssonStarsRolv WesenlundAud SchønemannFinn MehlumFleksnes has a good life, but misses the woman in his life. His mother is helpful, and has several solutions to the problem to prevent him from being the last Fleksnes. Charm school must be a solution.
- DirectorPål Bang-HansenStarsIngerid VardundSvein ScharffenbergJulie EgeA choking cry before a man carries his wife down in their basement freezer. Alex has killed off his wife on his remote farm. Then Helen turns up fleeing from her silver wedding celebrations. All alone.
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsGeir WestbyGro FraasKerstii AllumThis biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life
- DirectorIvo CaprinoStarsWenche FossPer Theodor HaugenHarald Heide-Steen Jr.Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car.
- DirectorAnja BreienStarsAnne Marie OttersenKatja MedbøeFrøydis ArmandThree women decides to go on a male-like ramp for a week instead of cooking dinner for their husbands for the sake of female liberation.
- DirectorArild KristoStarsSverre HorgeYvonne SparrbågePer-Axel AroseniusThe former convicted Eddie from Oslo meet Suzanne, the daughter of a tyrannic Swedish police chief, in a discotheque by coincidence. Together they run off to France. The father starts the hunt for them, thinking they're doing drugs.
- DirectorSvend WamStarsTorgeir SchjervenLasse TømteKjersti DøvigenThe teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home. To Geir's alcoholic mother and to Lasse's father, who is terrorizing the entire family.
- DirectorOla SolumStarsHanne KroghKnut RisanBente BørsumA small princess in a small kingdom in Adventureland disappears on Christmas eve. She has gone out to find the Christmas Star. The Queen follows and the King curses the Christmas Star, so it disappears for years, until young Sonja arrives.
- DirectorAnja BreienStarsEspen SkjønbergAnita BjörkHäge JuveGathered at a funeral for a successful business man, the testament is to be read. They will all inherit, with a big IF; if the family company is to be joint run by all the heirs.
- DirectorLaila MikkelsenStarsSunniva LindekleivLise FjeldstadArne Lindtner NæssLittle Ida's mother is working for the Germans during World War II, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
- DirectorVibeke LøkkebergStarsNina KnapskogKenneth JohansenHelge JordalA young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as she befriends a boy. This endangers her.
- DirectorMorten KolstadStarsTrond Peter Stamsø MunchKristian FigenschowGuri JohnsonRonny and Jørgen live in a Norwegian town called Svolvær (Lofoten, Norway). They come up with the brilliant idea, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio Feskslog".
- DirectorOla SolumTristan de Vere ColeStarsHelge JordalSverre Anker OusdalHans Ola SørlieA group of seamen from Norway find a Soviet listening station and they become targets for both America and Russia. Another cold war takes place.
- DirectorPetter VennerødSvend WamStarsSvein Sturla HungnesKnut HusebøJorunn KjellsbyA harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975. We follow shrink and doctor Atle and his good theater working friend Eigil.
- DirectorOddvar EinarsonStarsBettina BanounJørn ChristensenSigrid HuunPhotographer John Gabriel, in his mid-twenties, coincidentally meets 13 year old Flora, who's run off from home and has nowhere to sleep. They start a love affair due to both of their need for affection.
- DirectorNils GaupStarsMikkel GaupIngvald GuttormNils UtsiA young Sámi man witnesses a band of vicious raiders slay his family and flees to a nearby village, where he learns he must become a Pathfinder.
- DirectorSvend WamStarsJohn EgeAmanda OomsØyvin Bang BervenBased upon the novel "Jord!" by Erland Kiøsterud about Jor, living in Copenhagen, trying to make a living as an artist. Meanwhile he has to live off his girlfriend Gerda's prostitution. Then Morgan turns up, creating trouble.
- DirectorSigve EndresenA warm story about the fight for a decent life. Deals with teenagers having problems with alcohol and drugs.
- DirectorMartin AsphaugStarsEspen SkjønbergNicolay Lange-NielsenCamilla Strøm HenriksenGothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
- DirectorEva IsaksenStarsHåvard BakkeTommy KarlsenHelle Beck FigenschowA young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.
- DirectorErik GustavsonStarsAnders Danielsen LieFrank RobertElisabeth Sand"Herman", based on Lars Saabye Christensen's novel of the same name, tells the story of the young boy Herman who suddenly loses his hair and becomes bald at the age of eleven. Movie follows him through what is a very difficult period in his life, through big mood swings and irrational behaviour until he finally learns to accept himself for who he is.
- DirectorBerit NesheimStarsMaria KvalheimEllen HornHelge JordalFrida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...
- DirectorKnut Erik JensenStarsAnne KrigsvollKetil HøeghEirin HargautA woman returns up North to her rural fishing village, and re-lives the village's history through work, war, rebuilding and depopulation.
- DirectorMarius HolstStarsMartin Dahl GarfalkTrond HalboJan Devo KornstadThe young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60s Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
- DirectorAune SandStarsBeate HalkjelsvikEinar LundBeate Charlotte LundeTwo young people stand on a street corner in a run-down part of New York, kissing. Despite the lawlessness of the district they are left unmolested. A short distance away walk Maria and Andreas. They are on their first date. In an episodic style the film tells of encounters and love among young people. The stories are set in Cairo, Paris, on the coast of Normandy and in New York.
- DirectorBent HamerStarsSverre HansenKjell StormoenLeif AndréeTwo brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd...
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdGard B. EidsvoldBjørn SundquistA young writer whose proposal was recently rejected goes to Greenland to spend a year at an outpost for hunting and trapping animals for furs. At the outpost he meets two men who are none too keen to spend the winter with the newcomer.
- DirectorPål SletauneStarsRobert SkjærstadAndrine SætherPer Egil AskeA lazy postman puts his nose where it doesn't belong.
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsStellan SkarsgårdSverre Anker OusdalMaria MathiesenIn a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.
- DirectorTorun LianStarsThea Sofie RustenJan Tore KristoffersenAnneke von der Lippe"Only Clouds..." is a film about eleven year old Maria, who has lost her little brother. Her mother disappears into her own sorrow, then Maria meets Jacob.
- DirectorPål JackmanStarsMads OusdalHildegun RiiseIngjerd EgebergDaniel Jul is a 28-year-old psychiatrist still living with his mom. He and his friend Ronny have one thing in common: they like searching for metallic objects in the ground. One day they find a jewel with the name "Janne" imprinted. This is the beginning of something big for Daniel. His life will never be the same. He's about to discover a lot of hidden secrets about himself and others.
- DirectorArild Østin OmmundsenStarsPia TjeltaKristoffer JonerGeir Vegar HoelPia is coming home for Christmas after traveling in England for about 6 months. She wants to catch up with her boyfriend Kristoffer, who was supposed to join her on the trip, but backed out at the last minute. Finding him turns out to be quite a task. While searching, she meets several more or less disgruntled and dissatisfied people. And when Santa turns up, things start happening.
- DirectorKnut Erik JensenStarsOdd Marino FrantzenEinar F.L. StrandArne WenselMuch as Buena Vista Social Club revealed a rich and unexplored world of music and culture, Cool and Crazy introduces us to a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame, as members of a male choir in Berlevåg.
- DirectorPetter NæssStarsPer Christian EllefsenSven NordinMarit Pia JacobsenWhen 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.
- DirectorMarius HolstStarsKim BodniaMikael PersbrandtMaria BonnevieDragonfly is the story of a couple that wants to get away. They want to spend time together in peace. They want to put something behind them. There is no such place. Someone will always find you. Someday someone will be at your door. Dragonfly is the story of people who collide, after a long time in separate lanes. Dragonfly is a modern chamber play, a triangle drama and a suspense story. A portrait of love and loyalty.
- DirectorUnni StraumeStarsLena EndreBjørn FlobergRebecka HemseSara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.
- DirectorBent HamerStarsTomas NorströmJoachim CalmeyerBjørn FlobergA scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.
- DirectorRunar HodneStarsThorbjørn HarrAnna DworakEspen Reboli BjerkeSomewhere in Eastern Europe, Vassi leads a theater troupe with ambition, though the audience doesn't seem to care. If only he gets to Moscow, everything will change.
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsTrond Espen SeimJan Gunnar RøiseEvy Kasseth Røsten"Hawaii, Oslo" is the story of a handful of people who cross one another's paths without necessarily knowing one another, during the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla are having their first child, whom they are told will not live long. Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer, tries to commit suicide. Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac, is waiting for the arrival of Åsa, with whom he has a 10-year deal to get married. Leon's brother Trygve fetches Leon from the institution to celebrate his birthday, but Tryge actually plans to use this leave from prison to run away. And the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, sees things no one else can see and just might be able to save everyone.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsAhmadAnne-LiseCristinThe movie follows students at Hauketo Continuation School the last months before the exams.
- DirectorSara JohnsenStarsAnnika HallinKristoffer JonerFridtjov SåheimAfter her son is hospitalized, a doctor cheats on her husband with a snow plow driver who is a suspect in her investigation of the recent death of a young Arab boy.
- DirectorPål SletauneTony SpataroStarsKristoffer JonerCecilie A. MosliJulia SchachtJohn has just been left by his girlfriend Ingrid. That day he allows himself to be seduced into a mystical and scary world, where it is impossible to separate truth from the lies
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsKristoffer JonerAne Dahl TorpAnne RygA drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era dominated by Marxism and Leninism.
- DirectorChristopher NielsenStarsWoody HarrelsonSimon PeggPhil DanielsFour stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters, and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
- DirectorJens LienStarsTrond FausaPetronella BarkerPer SchaanningIn 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.
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsAnders Danielsen LieEspen Klouman HøinerViktoria WingeFueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.
- DirectorErik Richter StrandStarsNils Jørgen KaalstadMikkel Bratt SilsetEdward SchultheissTrouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in Lars, and he embarks on a crusade to stop the abuser. But it soon spins out of control, and Lars' actions end up endangering those he set out to protect.
- DirectorRoar UthaugStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalRolf Kristian LarsenTomas Alf Larsen5 young Norwegians head up to the mountains to snowboard. One breaks his leg and it's getting dark soon, so they spend the night in a big, abandoned hotel, closed 30 years ago. They are not alone.
- DirectorBård BreienStarsFridtjov SåheimKirsti Eline TorhaugHenrik MestadThe local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.