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- Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
- An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
- A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
- On 11 August 1999, most of Europe was engrossed in the total solar eclipse, which momentarily enveloped the Earth in darkness. But in Serbia, people were busy barricading themselves in their homes and shelters for fear of the dark. Filmmaker Natasa Urban returns to the eclipse as motif and metaphor in her paradoxically evocative and thoughtful film about her own upbringing during the war in the former Yugoslavia, to which she travels back in THE ECLIPSE to collect stories and anecdotes from her family and acquaintances. A cotton curtain in the wind on a spring day, a lush forest floor. The war is far away - or is it? Shot on analogue 16mm film with an artist's eye for how traces of the past remain deposited in the present - both physically and mentally - Urban creates a rich, existential work of imagery with a quiet, philosophical weight that is rare and precious. As when her father wanders the lush landscapes while you hear him reading from his journals about the wanderings he took while the war was still going on.
- A tip-off in 2014 gives a group of journalists access to silenced stories of abuse from indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway.
- Friendship, trials, victories and loss - the world's biggest soccer tournament Norway Cup has a lot of challenges also outside the football pitch.
- Berat tries to save Mamo by letting him move into his home. But Berat is no ordinary community worker. He's been a criminal and is trying to deal with it. In a police interrogation his past is used against him, and Mamo has to move out.
- Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, travels around the world in a quest to eliminate the use of genetically modified foods and seeds in her home country of India and other developing countries.
- In 1999, Serbian military forces and Albanian guerrillas were fighting in Kosovo. Serbs and Albanians lived separate lives. As their country verged on war, a group of brave students decided to meet their opponents for the first time.
- Todd talks to his sister Stella about his worries and the fear of leaving kindergarten to start school. But Stella is too little to understand his complicated words. In Todd's eyes she seems carefree, but she soon misses him when he is not in kindergarten anymore. She wants to understand what he is talking about.
- A feel good film about depressions. About being able to do it all, but losing it in a severe anxiety attack. About controlling angst together with the family, and be able to laugh of it all, even the electro shocks.
- The peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government throws the country into chaos. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the 'wrong' thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle?
- Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum travels the world to understand what censorship is, allowing the censors themselves to state their case.
- Four young women, two from Norway, one each from Denmark and Sweden, on being overweight and beautiful. How to be comfortable and proud of your body, even though it doesn't fit into the norms dictated by the media.
- At Schous Plass in Oslo a very diverse group of ping-pong players regularly meet to play and to hang out. Some of the players have liberal views on drugs. As the city government threatens to remove the tables, the community fights back.
- As the members of a group of suicide bombers in Syria wait for their turn to go on a final mission, this film lays bare the faith and doubt at the core of men who give their life for their cause.
- Four inmates on maximum security have chosen to enter a three-week Jesuit silent retreat in prison. They are guided by two priests. The film slowly observes this paradoxical situation, while looking beyond the question of religious belief: How does ethical exercises, rituals and communal silence affect us? The setting evolves into a prism for gauging a portrait of the existential landscape of the convicted.
- A youth doc about young kids from the age of 5 working as cod tongue cutters in Northern Norway.
- A theater director wants to tell the story of her life. A Norwegian playwright decides to write it and a father agrees to talk about his years in prison and exile.
- Host country Korea will face the world's best hockey nation Canada in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ethnically Korean, but mentally North American hockey coach has four years to prevent national embarrassment.
- A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.
- For the 4000 inhabitants of the town of Myre, Christmas without a hunt of Santa Claus means no Christmas at all. A bunch of men manage to turn the village upside down on the 23rd of December, but there's a lot of elfs diverting the hunt.
- Thorvin and Tilde are the only second graders at their small seaside school. Their days are beatific, and everyone knows each other, plays together and helps one another-until the school shuts down. School by the Sea catches the rainbow of sadness and excitement, resistance and resilience, loss and growth, of a child adapting to change.
- 15 year old Noah from Oslo is arrested and charged on four accounts of robbery of other children. He is moved away from his childhood friends to Bærum to start anew. The film follows three of 19 accused of these robberies in Oslo 2013.