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Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

Four inmates on maximum security have chosen to enter a three-week Jesuit silent retreat in prison. They are guided by two priests. The film slowly observes this paradoxical situation, while looking beyond the question of religious belief: How does ethical exercises, rituals and communal silence affect us? The setting evolves into a prism for gauging a portrait of the existential landscape of the convicted.

A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.

Todd talks to his sister Stella about his worries and the fear of leaving kindergarten to start school. But Stella is too little to understand his complicated words. In Todd's eyes she seems carefree, but she soon misses him when he is not in kindergarten anymore. She wants to understand what he is talking about.

As the members of a group of suicide bombers in Syria wait for their turn to go on a final mission, this film lays bare the faith and doubt at the core of men who give their life for their cause.

Eclipse explores filmmaker's upbringing during Yugoslav war through interviews with family, acquaintances. It meditates on traces of past in present through poetic imagery of landscapes overlaid with father's journals from wartime.

Friendship, trials, victories and loss - the world's biggest soccer tournament Norway Cup has a lot of challenges also outside the football pitch.

For the 4000 inhabitants of the town of Myre, Christmas without a hunt of Santa Claus means no Christmas at all. A bunch of men manage to turn the village upside down on the 23rd of December, but there's a lot of elfs diverting the hunt.

Berat tries to save Mamo by letting him move into his home. But Berat is no ordinary community worker. He's been a criminal and is trying to deal with it. In a police interrogation his past is used against him, and Mamo has to move out.

A tip-off in 2014 gives a group of journalists access to silenced stories of abuse from indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway.

The peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government throws the country into chaos. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the 'wrong' thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle?

A youth doc about young kids from the age of 5 working as cod tongue cutters in Northern Norway.

Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, travels around the world in a quest to eliminate the use of genetically modified foods and seeds in her home country of India and other developing countries.

Greek Orthodox nuns visit the small village of Valldal to have a majestic monastery built. The mayor is excited, but the villagers' opinions are different.

Four young women, two from Norway, one each from Denmark and Sweden, on being overweight and beautiful. How to be comfortable and proud of your body, even though it doesn't fit into the norms dictated by the media.

Helge was lured away from his studies at the teacher training college and drawn into the magical world of Kaizers Orchestra because he was the only one in class who could play the harmonium and accordion. He never dreamed of being a rock star, nor even really liked rock music - but he has lived the rock-n-roll life ever since.

For an estimated population of 4 million, Lebanon boasts some 200,000 foreign domestic workers, contracted under a system of full custodianship that deprives them of basic rights. Implemented since the start of the civil war (1975), this system is borrowed from similar ones in the Gulf countries. It is predicated on a transaction whereby the worker is not providing a service, but is rather commodified as a product, with specialized agencies organizing their import under conditions not unlike modern-day outposts of slavery. Director Maher Abi Samra places his camera inside the offices of the El Raed agency with the full complicity of its owner Zein. Diligently, unobtrusively, he observes and probes.

Host country Korea will face the world's best hockey nation Canada in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ethnically Korean, but mentally North American hockey coach has four years to prevent national embarrassment.

'Jenter' follows the Norwegian teenagers Iselin, Mahsa and their friends through 1 1/2 years of junior high.

We were abducted my mother, father, sister and me. Then they killed my parents and separated me from my sister. I was five. Abuk tells us in a low voice. I stayed with one of the men who kidnapped us and took care of his goats. Slaves is about Abuk, nine, and Machiek, fifteen. Like thousands of other children they were taken from southern Sudan by government sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves. They were later liberated by the organization CEAWC (Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children) now in South Sudan headed by James Aguer. This took place before South Sudan was a nation of its own. Slaves is based on an interview made in 2003 and is the second film in a series of animated documentaries with and about children in difficult and dangerous situations.

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.

When you shatter your fantasies the pain may be crippling or trans formative. You will want to go back to the fantasies because you will never be sure whether you have really broken free.

A feel good film about depressions. About being able to do it all, but losing it in a severe anxiety attack. About controlling angst together with the family, and be able to laugh of it all, even the electro shocks.