The unemployed performance artist Gritt struggles to make sense, as she moves below the successful surface of Oslo.
Social & External
The people behind it
Axel Hoffart
Man
Andrea Bræin Hovig
Andrea
Birgitte Larsen
Gritt
Mattis Herman Nyquist
Mattis
Hanne Skille Reitan
Hanne
Marianne Stormoen
Sister
Anita Uberoi
Neighbour
Marte Wexelsen Goksøyr
Marte
Kari Onstad Winge
Lady
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Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.
A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.
The 12-year old Dolores, a feisty preteen desperate to be seen as a grown-up in 1976 suburbia is on her humiliating, hilarious journey from girlhood to growing up. She fantasizes about sex, womanhood, work... and Freddie Prinze. The girl thinks she's got the lowdown on being a woman, but when her overworked single mom Janice hires Cleo to babysit her world collides with the super cool black 16-year old's, each learns painful truths about what it really means to grow up.
Lourdes and Humberto have been married for 21 years. Edgar seeks refuge with Venus, his dog. A waterpark, an afternoon to enjoy. A day that should not be ruined.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
After he traveled the city by foot, a mathematician stuck his gaze onto the overpasses, cable-stayed bridges, and light beams randomly colliding at night. Tired of only seeing things on the ground, he decided to take off from a bridge, and hunt his “angles” while cruising through the sky.
A summer trip with his friend Motor takes an unexpected turn when Gentle’s motorcycle breaks down, revealing feelings neither expected.
In the school cafeteria, 10-year-old Victor buried his face in his plate. Are his parents really abusing him? The legal system is in motion. An investigation is underway. Together with social services, we delve into the private life of this perfect couple to try to understand what really happened to this "beloved" child.
Darling, he came to see me again today. I end every session more shook than the last. Because, unlike all my other patients, he shows no discomfort whatsoever with his sexual freakishness. On the contrary. I maintain my diagnosis: acute melancholia and flight from reality. He goes so deep in his delusion sometimes that he imagines he's some kind of prophet. As if he was part of a cult.
A story of a hopeless romantic, who's only means of communication are voiced through a sketchbook.
Begoña, Pelayo and María are saying a last goodbye to their mother. Confusion arises when they discover she wanted to be buried in a very special outfit.
In an isolated and unknown place during a war, a child is forced to flee. Along the way, he sees horse corpses everywhere. Only dead horses. Why? Why have the horses decided to kill themselves?
"Blood Sisters", Danish filmmaker Louise Friedberg's sophomore short film, is the kind of flick that you simply can't take your eyes off of. It's a relatively simple story that has been played out time and time again: a young girl feels threatened by her best friend's new friend/neighbour, jealousy brews, and tempers flare.
Through his struggle with gender identity, a young boy stands up for himself and embarks on a difficult journey of self - discovery and contentment
A distant boy and a disturbed girl discover a blue tongue nest, but not all is as it appears.
Yoon-hye likes Da-joo more than just as a friend but denies her feelings for the sake of their friendship. After some events following Da-joo being introduced to a boy, Yoon-hye is not able to hide her emotions anymore.
Karin and Peter have been married for almost 15 years. From the outside, they seem happy, but behind the closed doors of the house there is a repression. Then the dog Orion steps into their lives ...
A portrayal of girlhood through the eyes of an average teenage girl.
A man and his daughter, living in an isolated log cabin built in an open field near an inhospitable forest, are terrified by the mysterious mist rising from the trees.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again.
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
