Mikkel Gaup

Forty years ago Norway was closely following the drama surrounding the Alta controversy. For Ester, the protests become more than a fight against the construction of a dam.

This hilarious short film Covid side effects shows how pandemic and physical distancing times can be helpful when trying to break up with a partner with whom one hasn't had strong passionate feelings in long time.

Cityboy Niilas (12) is sent to his mother in Lapland. The only one succeeding in making contact with him is his new sister Suna (11). She takes him on a journey in the magical woods where shy Niilas turns into a wild cloudboy.

German businessman Carsten Neuer travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some Norwegian poems by Tarjei Vesaas into Chinese, a project of his late wife. He hires Niko, a down-on-his-luck tour guide, to drive him to the poet's home and places of inspiration to stimulate his own translation. On the road, the ghost of Carsten's wife appears to him, while Niko struggles with the sudden consequences of his girlfriend's pregnancy. On this journey, two very different men come to realize the transforming power of love, the limits of language, and the human need for friendship.

Después de dos años de prisión por participar en una carrera callejera ilegal, Roy dice que no a una nueva carrera ilegal de invierno, en el norte de Rusia. Pero luego escucha que su hija participará con su novio.

The Isogaisa festival runs for a week starting with lectures, workshops and nature walks from Monday until Thursday and then has its main events during the weekend. Another festival in this area of Norway is Riddu Riddu that is similar in the way that it has a focus on Sami culture and connection to other indigenous people but is without the focus on shamanism, traditional beliefs and practices. The festival 2014 included joiking courses, name giving ceremonies, shaman performances, chocolate ceremony, concerts, folklore, dance parties, nightlife, archery training and much more.

A young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world. This does not turn out as planned, and instead he ends up as a reporter for the celebrity magazine Se og Hør. We are observing a man who gradually loses all inhibitions in order to reach the top in the country's largest weekly magazine.

Una pareja se ve obligada a tomar una desviación que la lleva a lo más profundo de los bosques noruegos, donde comienzan a sufrir una serie de incidentes demasiado extraños para ser coincidencias. Pronto descubren que ellos han sido elegidos para ser las estrellas de un macabro espectáculo, del que posiblemente no salgan con vida.

Película basada en la revuelta de Kautokeino, al norte de Noruega, en 1825, cuando la comunidad sami se reveló contra la explotación de las autoridades noruegas (también contra la venta de licor, que afectaba a los samis).

Cuatro ladronzuelos de poca monta y un elefante adicto a las drogas son los personajes principales de esta película de animación que poco tiene que ver con el cine para niños. A medio camino entre "Liberad a Willy" y "Trainspotting", "Free Jimmy" supone un torbellino de acción y humor negro en la que los protagonistas deben rescatar al elefante pastillero de un circo.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: a guard, an Episcopalian priest, and a church organist. Minimalizing dialogue and plot intricacy, Tregenza concedes only kernels of information, demanding that the viewer breathe dimensionality into his archetypes. Acting out primal instincts of lust, envy, fear, and love, subjects teeter vulnerably on the brink of sanity and insanity, freedom and repression in their attempts to navigate their existence.

A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love.

A principios de los años 70, Bess (Watson), una ingenua joven de un pueblo costero de Escocia, se enamora de Jan (Stellan Skarsgård), un hombre mundano que trabaja en una plataforma petrolífera. A pesar de la oposición de la rígida comunidad puritana a la que pertenece, Bess y Jan se casan. Tras la boda, él vuelve a su trabajo, y ella cuenta los días esperando su vuelta. Bess, una creyente devota, cree que su amor está bendecido por el cielo; pero un día sucede un terrible accidente. Primera película de la trilogía "Corazón dorado" de Lars Von Trier.

Jimmy y Rose son dos adolescentes de un pequeño pueblo costero de Irlanda que intentan enriquecer sus vidas urdiendo fantasías sobre los turistas que visitan el lugar. Pero su amistad se pondrá a prueba cuando Jimmy intenta seducir a una actriz americana que está visitando el pueblo.

Basada en una leyenda lapona del siglo XII, narra la historia de un joven que lucha para tratar salvar a su gente de una tribu invasora. Obtuvo buenas críticas, además de ser una de las pocas películas noruegas de la década de los ochenta que tuvo éxito en el resto de Europa.

A modern take on old Sámi legends about the battle between man and evil.