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Li-hua is a single mother in Oslo struggling to make ends meet. "En Midnatts Vuggesang" is a subtle look into the life of a working-class immigrant in the Western world, navigating life moment by moment.

Journalist Jørgen Lorentzen was in Turkey when the coup attempt happened in 2016 and followed the event the whole evening. In the middle of the night one neighbour said: “This is not a real coup, I have experienced many coups and know what a coup is”. From that moment Lorentzen started the investigation of the event and its aftermath. This documentary is a critical analysis of the coup attempt in Turkey throughout the night between the 15th and 16th of July 2016.

In 1967 three students started the Experimental High School of Oslo - FGO. They wanted to make a free and democratic school, where pupils and teachers were equals, and the curriculum focused on freedom, learning and mutual respect.

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.

21 died in the explosion in the kings bay-accident in Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen i 1962. The accident led to the fall of the Norwegian labor party government ruling since WW2. Was this really an accident, and was it under Norwegian control?

On July 22nd 2011, Norway experienced incomprehensible terror. However, it was not the first time one in our midst used extreme measures to create fear and panic.

노르웨이 핀슬랜드의 한 농장에 살고 있는 19살 '대그'는 지역 소방서장인 아버지를 도와 지역의 크고 작은 화재사건을 처리한다. 그의 주변 사람들은 제대로 된 자신의 직업을 찾지 않는 '대그'를 무시한다. 그럴수록 그는 자신의 분노를 방화로 해소하려 한다. 조용하던 마을은 연쇄 방화사건으로 혼란에 빠진다.

Tindra is the lighthouse keeper’s daughter. One night, while her father is out fishing, the lighthouse goes out and a boat is heading straight towards the reef. Tindra tries to fix the lighthouse, but instead she sets it on fire.

2004년 노르웨이에서 실제로 발생한 노카스사건을 그 원작으로 하였다 10여명의 강도가 약 20분만에 한화로 80여억원의 노르웨이 지폐를 턴 사건으로, 노르웨이에서 일어난 가장 큰 은행강도사건을 영화화햇다.

There's 27 million slaves in the world today. We find them in the sex industry, as child soldiers, as unpaid housekeepers and in production and as shop workers. We have all a responsibility for this.

A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.