Norsk Filminstitutt Movies

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm...

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...

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of...

Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father...

A woman, Selma, almost 40 years old, figures that she has not achieved what she wanted in life and wonders "what now?"

In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives...

Inheriting a piece of land with a really old oak of which they are very attached, a family believes the grandmothers soul lives in the old tree. When...

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.

A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to...

During World War II, enemy fighter pilots find themselves face to face after shooting down one another's planes over a desolate landscape. In order...

When 17-year-old Anna Lorentz returns to Narvik in 1940 with her older sisters and brother, they find their town destroyed. They recover the family...

A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. When the mommy-fish dies, Boj has had enough, and gets power from his own fantasy to go further.

After Anschluss — the Nazi invasion and incorporation of Austria in 1938 — a group of Jewish children travel from Vienna to Oslo for...

A glimpse into the raw and simple power of nature through encounters with farm animals: the eponymous Gunda, a mother pig; two cows, and a one-legged...

A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression...

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the...

The film marked the debut of cartoonist and illustrator Christopher Nielsen as an animator. This is a crude cartoon with period humour depicting...

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his...