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Unforgivable 2024
Investigative journalist Lena-Christin Kalle discovers that the story of the Norwegian "German Girls" is sealed in Norwegian archives. This leads to a year-long hunt for what is hidden in the secret archives. Shocking stories from the few surviving women and witnesses reveal an unknown chapter in Norwegian post-war history.

I Got Words 2023
Runar Gudnason, best known from the rap group Side Brok, travels back in time to find out why he became a rapper.

Can Somebody Tell Me That Everything Will Be Fine 2023
How do we talk to each other online? Based on authentic chats from an internet forum.

The Happy Worker - Or How Work Was Sabotaged 2022 star_border 7.1
Our premise is that work has become an act of self-sabotage. Empty corporate jargon, ever-changing management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency hijacked the purpose of work. Creative documentary The Happy Worker will show how we got to this point and the very human behavior that led us here. We want to show how this unhealthy system is maintained and what keeps us from calling bullshit.

Dying to Divorce 2021 star_border 7
As rates of femicide and domestic abuse soar in Turkey and democratic rights for women are increasingly eroded, a lawyer and her clients bravely risk everything for their freedom by standing up to the government and putting violent men behind bars.

CODE NAME: Nagasaki 2021 star_border 10
"CODE NAME: Nagasaki" tells the story of Marius and Fredrik, two young men who forged their friendship through filmmaking and decided to put their skills to a unique challenge: finding Marius’ long lost Japanese mother.

Bergen - A City West of Reason 2020 star_border 5
A poetic and beautiful tribute to the city of Bergen, Norway. Based on archive footage from the last century and packed with Bergen music from Grieg to Vaular.

The Winds of Change 2020
Norway has long had some of the strictest drug laws in Europe – with an emphasis on punishing, rather than helping, addicts. In recent years, the little country has also been on top of the European death by overdose statistics. In this humane and insightful documentary we follow three drug-user activists who are fighting to change the way we think about how we treat men and women with an addiction.

Riverbed 2020
Two young sisters go to great lengths to fulfill their mother's dying wish. Pursued by the grown-ups who want the conventional funeral procedures to start, the kids embark on a last journey with their mother to fathom the process of her death.

Wild Relatives 2018 star_border 5
Deep in the earth beneath the Norwegian permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. For the first time ever, seeds held there from a major gene bank in Aleppo are now being replicated, after its holdings were left behind when the institution had to move to Lebanon due to the civil war. It is refugees from Syria who are carrying out this painstaking work in the fields of the Beqaa Valley. In the Levant, dry conditions and the power of global agricultural corporations are the biggest challenge, while in the Arctic Circle - where the seed vault was supposed to withstand anything - it is rising temperatures and melting glaciers.

The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa 2017
Art director Naoki Hayakawa works 16 hours daily in a creative, neo-totalitarian advertisement company in Tokyo. The working pressure causes a mental condition between sleep and wakefulness where he has strange and wonderful dreams.

Democracy Road 2016
After living in exile for 20 years, Aye Chan Naing can finally return to Myanmar's homeland. As chief editor of the radio and television station The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), Naing, together with reporter Than Win Htut and their colleagues, fought for democracy and freedom of speech from an office in Oslo. The journalists go home to test the newborn democracy in their home country, and with them in their luggage they have a dream of freedom of the press and the opportunity to continue their work in the country they hold so dearly.

Kapteinen, piloten og sangerinnen 2014
The captain and the pilot are both deeply captivated by the beautiful opera singer who performs in the opera house and competes to become her best friend, but the fight gets out of control and they are about to lose their entire friendship.