Erland Bakker

1940年4月9日、ノルウェーの首都オスロにナチスドイツが侵攻。ノルウェー軍も交戦するが、圧倒的な軍事力によって主要都市が次々と陥落し、占拠されていく。ドイツ軍はノルウェーに対し降伏を要求し、ドイツ公使とノルウェー政府国王のホーコン7世との謁見の場が設けられるが、ホーコン7世はその場で、ナチスの要求に従うか国を離れて抵抗を続けるかの選択を迫られる。＜第2次世界大戦時、ナチスドイツの侵攻に激しく抵抗したノルウェーの国王ホーコン7世の下した決断と運命の3日間を描いた歴史ドラマ。本国ノルウェーで大ヒットを記録し、アカデミー外国語映画賞に向けたノルウェー代表作品にも選出された。＞

Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.

Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the year, in Oslo. We follow Frode and Milla. They are having their first child, who they are told will not live long. We follow Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. We follow Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac who is loking for Åsa, to whom he has a ten year old deal to get married. We meet Leon's brother, Trygve, who fetches Leon at the institution to celebrate his birthday, but who himself has plans to use his leave from prison to run away. And most of all we meet the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone - except himself?

Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the more theoretical aspects of life. He spends his time in their apartment reading books and looking at the neighbours through the living room window. Elling doesn't seem to need to be around others like most people. That's why Elling is less than enthusiastic when his mother suddenly decides to take her son on a beach vacation to Spain. Reluctantly, Elling agrees. After all, a lady at her age needs a good man by her side. But what Elling refuses to realize is that Mom is not only old, but also sick. Very sick. On her last vacation she tries to get Elling to see that life is bigger than their living room.