Øystein Mamen

After a bed bug infestation at her shared flat, Emilie becomes temporarily homeless. Rejecting every offer of help out of pride and fear of rejection, she instead gets entangled with the other so-called parasites of society.

A meeting between a young woman and her dad at a hotel in Oslo.

Una empresa de videojuegos está creando un videojuego para niños sobre la Unión Europea. Juega como un ave nacional que necesita reproducirse y anidar a través de las fronteras, pero solo puede volar según lo permitan sus derechos de visa. Seguimos a dos diseñadores de juegos mientras transforman la Unión Europea en gráficos de píxeles en un esfuerzo por hacer que Schengen sea atractivo. La pregunta a la que se enfrentan: ¿será posible?

Susanne is visiting with her two daughters, and starts a new collaboration with the dramaturg Tor. Her daughters gets involved with choreographers Toon And Thomas who is experimenting on a new performance project, while the artist couple Viktor and Damla is making a video about a troll in the forest.

Viken Filmsenter invited filmmakers to create visual mood reports from their own isolation life. This film is the result of a simple visual concept that captures fragments from filmmaker Lilja Ingolfsdottir's everyday life in a pandemic. A cinematic document from a very special time.

Viken Filmsenter invited filmmakers to create visual mood reports from their own isolation life. This film is the result of a simple visual concept that captures fragments from filmmaker Lilja Ingolfsdottir's everyday life in a pandemic. A cinematic document from a very special time.

Viken Filmsenter invited filmmakers to create visual mood reports from their own isolation life. This film is the result of a simple visual concept that captures fragments from filmmaker Lilja Ingolfsdottir's everyday life in a pandemic. A cinematic document from a very special time.

The documentary is a portrait of an artist and a portrait of a deadly disease. Lene Marie Fossen was a gifted photographer who suffered from severe anorexia. Self Portrait is a film about the power of art and survival, but it also raises important questions about what treatment one who suffers from severe anorexia needs.

A film about the challenges in shared lives, but also about one woman's opportunity to become more aware of herself and adapt her dysfunctional patterns.

A film about the challenges in shared lives, but also about one woman's opportunity to become more aware of herself and adapt her dysfunctional patterns.

Durante un recreo en la escuela, Lykke, de 13 años, hija de un destacado miembro del Partido Laborista, hiere gravemente a su compañero de clase Jamie, hijo de un político de alto nivel de la derecha. Cuando Jamie muere más tarde en el hospital, las versiones contradictorias de lo que realmente sucedió corren el riesgo de empeorar una situación difícil y traumática. ¿Fue sólo un juego inocente? Liv, la directora de la escuela y amante secreta del padre de Jamie, debe encontrar la fuerza para enfrentarse a una comunidad en apuros, y a sus propias emociones, altamente conflictivas.

On a Saturday afternoon at a Norwegian play-land, a couple witness an argument between two mothers and the play-land manager. While the couple are wondering if they should intervene, something odd happens. Before they know it, the situation triggers underlying issues of their own.

Dagne (13) experiences mastery and independence in the stable. She and the other horse girls measure strength by defrosting the strong horses. Inside the gang is an expectation of what awaits them in adulthood. When the 34-year-old blacksmith arrives at the stable, obscure performances quickly turn into a brutal reality.

A journey through one year in the life of Ole and his family, living in Brochmannsgate 12A, Oslo, Norway, Europe, Earth, Universe. What if you would take a break from the rollercoaster called life and just sit and ask yourself: how did I get here? Do you live alone, with a family, or roommates? In a small village on the countryside or maybe in a big, foreign city? Was this the place you were supposed to be by now? And how do you keep going, even if you know that at some point the sun will burn out and everything around you will be gone forever?

Fanny is in her mid-twenties and has just moved back to her hometown to start at the local University. During student orientation week she struggles to bond with the other students, and decides to seek out an old friendship.

Which human skills are we trying to learn the forthcoming generations? Childhood is observing 6-year-olds in a pre-school in Nesodden outside Oslo in the Direkt Cinema-tradition, made to debate when children are put into a school situation.

A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.

We follow Rebekka in her everyday life. She is independent, ambitious and full of initiative, at the same time as being addicted to attention and intimate relations as a mean to avoid closeness to her real problems.

We follow Rebekka in her everyday life. She is independent, ambitious and full of initiative, at the same time as being addicted to attention and intimate relations as a mean to avoid closeness to her real problems.

Un viaje al interior de Martin, un padre de familia, treintañero, viviendo en un pequeño pueblo de Noruega. Cuando decida realizar una excursión a la montaña, seremos testigo de sus pensamientos: esenciales, existenciales, estúpidos e incluso absurdos sobre sus sentimientos y fantasías.

"Si los edificios pudieran hablar, ¿qué dirían de nosotros?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE ofrece seis respuestas sorprendentes. Este proyecto de película en 3D sobre el alma de los edificios permite que seis edificios icónicos y muy diferentes hablen por sí mismos, examinando la vida humana desde la perspectiva inquebrantable de una estructura hecha por el hombre. Seis cineastas aclamados aportan su propio estilo visual y enfoque artístico al proyecto. Los edificios, nos muestran, son manifestaciones materiales del pensamiento y la acción humanos: la Filarmónica de Berlín, un icono de la modernidad; la Biblioteca Nacional de Rusia, un reino de pensamientos; La prisión de Halden, la prisión más humana del mundo; el Instituto Salk, un instituto de ciencia revolucionaria; la Ópera de Oslo, una simbiosis futurista de arte y vida; y el Centre Pompidou, una máquina cultural moderna.

Twenty-year-old Maria is a troubled and lonely girl who falls in love with the grounded and patient Adam. He is the first boyfriend to treat her nicely, but Maria struggles with her past and the relationship with her dad, who left her when she was very young. When her dad reappears it makes Maria vulnerable to the fear of being rejected once again.

Boys On Film showcases short works from around the world that challenge genre, initiate discussion and explore issues of sexuality in beautiful ways. Volume 11: We Are Animals contains eight complete films: Dominic Haxton's "We Are Animals" starring Daniel Landroche, Clint Napier, and Drew Droege; "Burger" from director Magnus Mork; Shaz Bennett's "Alaska Is A Drag" starring Martin L. Washington Jr., Spencer Broschard, and Barret Lewis; Carlos Augusto de Oliveira's "Three Summers" starring Morten Kirkskov and Simon Munk; Nicholas Verso's "The Last Time I Saw Richard" starring Toby Wallace, Cody Fern, and Brian Lipson; Eldar Rapaport's "Little Man" starring Daniel Boys, Darren Evans, and Jamie Thompson; Rodrigo Barriuso's "For Dorian" starring Ron Lea and Dylan Harman; and Bryan Horch's "Spooners" starring Walter Replogle and Ben Lerman.

It's late night in a burger bar in Wales...

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. They should be returned to their country of origin when they turn 18. In Norway child welfare custody of their children without close caregivers. This does not apply to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children between 15 and 18 years.

In 1999, Serbian military forces and Albanian guerrillas were fighting in Kosovo. Serbs and Albanians lived separate lives. As their country verged on war, a group of brave students decided to meet their opponents for the first time.

Behind the success of Hariton Pushwagner we find a dramatic story about a son of a wealthy family who became homeless, only to end up as a celebrated artist. Pushwagner himself says, "It's not true but it's a good story". Against this backdrop, the film reflects on what the reality of Pushwagner is, both as an artist and a human being.

In this humorous, yet bitter-sweet, short film Dear Lisa, we start out with the speeches Lisa have received through life - from her father's confirmation speech to her friend's birthday speech, her husband's words for her on their wedding day, and during her funeral. The last speech, however, is given by Lisa.

Emanuel's identity is unknown, and his life has been put on hold for eight years. He claims to be from Liberia, but the Norwegian authorities believes he's from Ghana. He can't be returned to a country he's not registered in.

This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women advance on their trip, the closer they come to the place where a tragic incident happened two years earlier; one that changed their lives completely...

10 year old Julie walks with her mother and little sister, and everything they own along the highway. The mother is mentally unstable and during the journey Julie is confronted with embarrassment, shame, guilt and responsibility.

The documentary film HUMAN study what’s human – out of context. Without familiar purposes and surroundings, the film plays our labeling instinct against the factual meeting with another person. How close can we get to another human before it gets inhuman, – or maybe too human?

A teenager relocates to a new environment but can't quite escape the reach of his traumatic past, in Yatzy, a haunting coming of age saga from Norwegian director Katja Jacobsen. At the age of 15, Daggi has fallen in love with the wrong girl, and has experienced horrors so extreme that circumstances force him to move out and take up a new residence in the country with new parents.

6 Conceptions of Freedom is a study of Alexander Kiellands plass in Oslo, looking at the social and physical frames of imagination. Its a documentary that explores loneliness and powerlessness in our ideal of freedom. Is freedom a question of uncertainty or happiness, action or condition?

6 Conceptions of Freedom is a study of Alexander Kiellands plass in Oslo, looking at the social and physical frames of imagination. Its a documentary that explores loneliness and powerlessness in our ideal of freedom. Is freedom a question of uncertainty or happiness, action or condition?