Maria Ekerhovd

Maria Ekerhovd

Perfil

Maria Ekerhovd

Filmes

Let the River Flow
Producer
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.
More Than Ever
Co-Producer
Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to follow her instinct. Despite all the love she has for her life partner Mathieu, who is very supportive through her illness, she leaves him behind in France and will cross all Europe to Norway alone in search of a new path and to meet a blogger named Mister that she found on the internet.
War Sailor
Producer
War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their families' fate during and after the Second World War.
Memory of Water
Co-Producer
Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true.
12 Dares
Producer
Criminal coups and risky tests of strength as a suburban gang makes its own rules in snappy, action-packed antihero epic.
Os Inocentes
Producer
Quatro crianças tornam-se amigas durante as férias de Verão. Fora da vista dos adultos, descobrem que têm poderes escondidos. Enquanto exploram as suas habilidades recém-descobertas em florestas e parques das proximidades, a brincadeira inocente sofre uma reviravolta sombria e coisas estranhas começam a suceder.
Flee: Nenhum Lugar Para Chamar de Lar
Co-Producer
O documentário animado nos apresenta Amin Nawabi (pseudônimo), um intelectual altamente graduado de 36 anos, luta com um segredo doloroso que manteve escondido por vinte anos e que ameaça desestabilizar a vida que construiu para si e para o futuro marido. Recontada pelo diretor Jonas Poher Rasmussen, seu amigo próximo, a história extraordinária da viagem feita por Amin na infância, como refugiado afegão, vem à luz pela primeira vez. História de autodescoberta, a animação mostra que só quem confronta o passado pode criar um futuro, e só quem para de fugir de si mesmo descobre o verdadeiro significado de ter um lar.
Gritt
Producer
The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the name of art.
O Turista Suicida
Co-Producer
Max (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Game of Thrones) é um detetive que está em meio a uma crise existencial enquanto tenta resolver o caso de desaparecimento de Arthur (Anders Mossling) no Hotel Aurora. O local clandestino possui uma instalação secreta única, especializada em fantasias elaboradas de suicídio assistido.
Disco
Producer
On the surface 19-year-old Mirjam's life appears perfect. She is a world champion freestyle disco dancer and the pride of her modern, evangelical church. Yet her body is calling out for help and at the dance world championships, where she is defending her title, she collapses on stage. Her family's solution is for her to focus more on her faith. In search of answers, she turns to a stricter, more conservative church.
Divino Amor
Co-Producer
Brasil, 2027. Uma mulher profundamente religiosa usa sua posição em um cartório para evitar o divórcio entre casais em dificuldades. Enquanto espera por um sinal de reconhecimento pelos seus esforços, ela se vê confrontada com uma crise no seu próprio casamento que a aproxima ainda mais de Deus.
What Will People Say
Producer
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture.
From the Balcony
Producer
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?
The Tree Feller
Producer
Anders moves from the city to a quiet small farm that belonged to his deceased parents and spends his days out in the forest, aimlessly chopping down trees. His only desire is to be out in nature, and to lose himself in the physical work. His attempt to escape is soon interrupted by the constant involvement of his pushy relatives who want to tell him what to do and how to do it. Soon it becomes clear that Anders has just traded in one claustrophobic existence for another.
Alt brenner
Producer
12-year-old Anna has volunteered to clear garbage along a beach in Northern Norway. There, she falls in love with the group leader Aaron, who awakens something intense in Anna that she has never felt before.
A Região Selvagem
Co-Producer
​Alejandra é uma jovem mãe que, ao lado de seu marido Angel, cria seus dois filhos em uma pequena cidade. Seu irmão Fabian trabalha como enfermeiro no hospital local. Suas vidas provincianas são abaladas com a chegada da misteriosa Verônica, uma mulher sexy que põe em cheque os valores familiares, a hipocrisia, a homofobia e o machismo que até então regiam a moral local. Verônica convence a todos que em uma mata próxima, dentro de uma cabana isolada, habita algo que não é deste mundo e que servirá de resposta para todos os problemas. Leão de Prata de melhor direção, Veneza 2016.​
The Disappearing Illusionist
Producer
In midwinter the German illusionist Dirk Ohm arrives in the small town Grong, a place ridden by the disappearance of a young local woman Maria. Dirk soon finds himself searching for Maria side by side with the villagers of Grong; and slowly he falls in love with the missing woman. This fictional story pays tribute to a real character, and to his mysterious disappearance in the winter of 2003.
Tudo Vai Ficar Bem
Co-Producer
Certo dia o escritor Tomas (James Franco) briga com a sua namorada e decide dirigir sem rumo. Nervoso, perde o controle do carro, atropela e mata uma criança. Afetado pelo trágico acidente, ele não consegue mais ter uma vida tranquila.
Aqui Está Harold
Producer
Após 40 anos de sucesso, o comércio de móveis de Harold vai à falência quando a Ikea decide abrir uma superloja na vizinhança. Harold e a mulher, Marny, perdem seu estabelecimento e a casa onde vivem e, para piorar, Marny também perde a memória. Com raiva e desesperado, Harold planeja a vingança perfeita. Ele vai sequestrar seu inimigo, o fundador da Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad. Infelizmente, Kamprad está feliz em ser sequestrado e vê no episódio a chance de melhorar sua imagem pública.
In Natura
Producer
Martin está sozinho em uma trilha nas montanhas para buscar uma renovação espiritual de sua vida cotidiana. Ouvimos todos os seus pensamentos sem censura e suas observações brutalmente honestas sobre si mesmo e as pessoas ao seu redor, desde o trivial e infantil até o existencial e profundo.
Vegas
Producer
You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
5 grøss fra Vestlandet
Producer
5 directors were invited to direct their own short film - a horror story. The idea was to let the directors tell their own worst nightmare. 5 short films were produced and edited together as one movie for the cinema with the duration of 33 minutes. An unusual cinema project, but then again, more exciting!
Sniffer
Producer
A man wakes on the ceiling of his bedroom and breaks a lamp to alert his wife to his predicament. She puts on her heavy boots, unstraps herself out of her bed and uses a hook on a pole to drag him back down. The next day he goes to his job where he works as a deodorant tester, sniffing the armpits of exercising test subjects. On this day though, he faces an event that will change his life forever.
Let the River Flow
Producer
Based on true events, Let the River flow is a story about Ester, recently graduated teacher who turns into an activist, and is ready to sacrifice her life for the rights of nature and the Sámi.
The Second Sex
Producer
A story about three women from three different generations, and how growing up as a woman affects choices, ambitions and relationships with others.