Norway
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He cant say no to the urge to burn. In a peaceful and closely-knit Norwegian village, fear spreads like wildfire, as night by night, an unidentified arsonist goes on a wrecking spree of starting a series of fires. Unbeknownst to villagers, the pyromaniac is no less than an avid fireman himself, Dag - the son of the fire brigades chief. As suspicions among his closest grow, Dags reach becomes increasingly sinister and audacious, and dread takes over the village.
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One teachers fate hangs in the balance, but can he reach his students and change their lives? Ghani is in crisis mode. With a new government in power in Macedonia, it typically means everyone will lose his/her job to make room for educators of which the regime approves. Most of the teachers at the school are willing to sit idly by, go about their day, slap around some unruly students, and wait to see what happens.
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What lasts longer - art, or the relationship that inspired it? David invites Sarah to his summer lake house to help finish his play. But Sarah has her own ideas about its subject: their decades-long, tumultuous love affair, and despite the peaceful solitude, both are thrown into re-examining the multitude of eras they've survived together. All the Beauty is an intimate and acute anatomy of a complicated relationship.
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A love poem (with attitude) to shedding your skin and growing into your true beauty Four very different people are all facing crossroads: Sigrid, a young woman aching to find her voice; Kare, who's trapped himself inside his egotistical persona; Trine, a very pregnant performance artist with a bad attitude who's running out of options; and Agnes, an aging author with a 40-year case of writer's block who wonders about the son she gave up for adoption. Their paths weave together, intersect, and fall away from one another like the flight of birds.
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Kristoffer Joner (The Revenant) thrills in Norways foreign-language Oscar submission. Nestled in Norway, a picturesque village, Gejranger, brims with spectacular beauty, nature, and soon disaster. Just as family-man geologist Kristan (Joner) is about to retire from Geirangers warning center, he witnesses a colossal rockslide tumble off a fjord. It sets off a cataclysmic 325 foot tsunami, barreling towards Kristans family where the wave will hit hardest. To make matters worse, the villages residents have only ten minutes to escape impending doom.
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When life gets you down...pick yourself up. Perhaps Marianne doesn't make waffles like "the other woman," but she sure knows how to bring the sugar to a relationship. When her husband of fifteen years cheats on her with his young, hot co-worker, what does Marianne do? First comes the rage...then the tears...and then...the fun. Between revenge tips and late-night shots with a handsome stranger at the bar, Marianne is ready for a wild ride into the heart of what it means to be alive. She has the support of her best friend and the strength of her spirit to get her through the ups and downs.
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Two brothers on a journey to bring their father home War changes you. Like a raging storm, it sweeps you out the doorand you're never quite the same when you return home. Oscar and Fredrik see this change in their father when he returns from his deployment in Afghanistan. Then, one day, their father sets off on a hunting trip in the icy mountainsand he doesn't come home. Determined to find their father, the two boys set out into the night. Together they must negotiate rocky shoals in the hopes of making their family whole again.
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A sudden encounter between a lonely tramp and a young girl leads to an unexpected friendship.
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Berlusconi thunders down the home stretch A down-on-his-luck harness racer, Bjarte Lem, gets entangled with the wrong crowd in this madcap Norwegian comedy. Previously, a star in his field, but now a little older, he turns to fixing race odds in order to pay back his wife's enormous debt to a pair of shady Finnish loan sharks. Hilarity ensues when he hires a pair of blockheads to do his dirty work. Their plan goes awry when the prizewinning horse is kidnapped.
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Norwegian Wood - isnt it good? It's the sixties in Oslo, and four friends are teetering between adolescence and adulthood as only teenage boys can. They fancy themselves to be the Fab Four, though their band, the Snafus, has yet to master a single song. For these boys, listening to the new Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is like "listening to God say 'let there be light' on day one." They navigate the treacherous shoals of young love and early adulthood to the innocent beat of early Rock 'n Roll, against the backdrop of the nascent global anti-war movement.