Knut Halmrast

Sailor and engineer Sigurd Coates spent 20 years and everything he had to build a 148-foot-tall replica of the legendary British royal yacht Britannia.

A husband and wife living under impoverished conditions far into the forest. One day they get the chance to improve their lives with 3 wishes. Based on a Norwegian folk tales.

13-year old Rikke sees Bea, the new girl in her class, as a challenge. After an endurance test to find which of them can lie longer in a circle of flames, they become friends. However, as a result of some unfortunate truths and half-truths, the friendship falters. Rikke feels that Bea has let her down, and resolves to continue the rivalry between them, but now in a less physical, more artful way. In addition we meet Rikke's elder sister Ninni, who has been in England to learn the language, and has had to leave her great love, a man twelve years her senior. The film is also about the problems Rikke encounters in fulfilling the expectations of those around her as she approaches womanhood.

An experimental portrayal of a woman driven to collapse in her attempts at human approach and to master her surroundings. Intense, frenetic and confused, she stakes it all on shining shoes.