Films produced by Norsk Filminstitutt

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

A glimpse into the raw and simple power of nature through encounters with farm animals: the eponymous Gunda, a mother pig; two cows, and a one-legged...

Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of...

A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.

PLEASE is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. In a...

November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers...

During World War II, enemy fighter pilots find themselves face to face after shooting down one another's planes over a desolate landscape. In order...

Ambulance driver Joe loses his job when self-driving vehicles take over. He's then absorbed into a government system under which people without work...

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the...

In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives...

Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm...

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his...

The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community....

The smoking corner at school. Here some teachers stand and smoke, some come, some leave, the days go by. Some words are said, but mostly they stand...

A woman, Selma, almost 40 years old, figures that she has not achieved what she wanted in life and wonders "what now?"

Dissociated from their own personal lives, two women form a bond over an impromptu karaoke performance that is as unexpected as it is heartfelt and...

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées...

The film marked the debut of cartoonist and illustrator Christopher Nielsen as an animator. This is a crude cartoon with period humour depicting...

After Anschluss — the Nazi invasion and incorporation of Austria in 1938 — a group of Jewish children travel from Vienna to Oslo for...

A documentary about youth politicians changes radically on July 22nd 2011, when a right-wing extremist murders 69 people at a summer camp run by the...