The Street of Absalon Beyer A rhythmic and repetitive text explores the details of a girl entering and leaving an apartment. Why is the girl there? Sometimes your body tells you one thing while your senses say the opposite. |  |
Fireball Childhood friends Håvard and Stian have a tradition of meeting once a year to play a game they invented called Fireball. It is that time of year again and Håvard is looking forward to it immensely. |  |
Like Father, Like Son A ten-year-old boy wants to follow in his father's footsteps and be a butcher. The boy reflects about slaughtering animals. |  |
Sing Me To Sleep Robert is a 45-year-old postal worker living with his sick mother. To fulfill his mother's last wish, Robert needs to find a girlfriend, fast - or at least someone who will pretend to be. |  |
Water Lilies in Bloom The disgraced synchronized swimming guru Labanosov entices overweight women to join him in his mission to prove Isaac Newton wrong at the championships. |  |
E18 Ten-year-old Julie, with her mother and little sister, walk the E18 highway, heading south. They have with them all that they own. |  |
Thanks to Life Wenche was a drug addict with AIDS. Renowned photographer Roar Christiansen documented her final 15 years. This is a story about dignity, love and endurance in the shadowy outskirts of Bergen, Norway. It is also the story of a ruined life and an improbable friendship. |  |
Grip Easy-going Sigve has found a job as an assistant at a sheltered living institution. He is attending his first training session for an injury-prevention program for when residents lose control. |  |
A Town Betrayed The Bosnian War was the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II and became a symbol of long-lasting political and religious conflict. Small-town Srebrenica was the scene of one of the war's most intense battles. But the background to the attack has never been revealed. |  |
Sarajevo Ricochet The Bosnian war was the most horrendous in Europe since World War II and created a new geo-political landscape in the Balkan region. Sheltered by the war, Al Qaeda could establish in Europe and create a launch pad for worldwide activity. |  |
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 | Murder In Nicaragua abortion in all forms is prohibited by law, due to a pact made between Nicaragua's president and the powerful Catholic Church. The film brings us face to face with affected women, and we meet courageous people fighting against the consequences of this political power-game. |
 | Blood Calls You How do you break a vicious circle of violence within a family? Visiting Havana, Linda Thorgren meets the love of her life. They get married. But then her life collapses, weighed down by her husband's control obsession. Linda searches for an answer to why she ended up in a relationship marked by violence and abuse. |
 | Auf Wiedersehen Finnland The unwritten emotional history of wartime Finland. Elma, Roosa, Terttu and Kaisu were among the hundreds of Finnish girls who left Lapland with the retreating German troops on a journey towards Germany in the fall of 1944.
Only now can the women speak about their forbidden love, their journey and bitter homecoming. |
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