Janne Heltberg
Minutes before a plane's departure, a situation develops. A passenger refuses to sit down to prevent the deportation of another man. The pilot then finds himself having to take a political stand, the last thing he wants to do.
Tara was the victim of a brutal attack and attempted murder. 63 days later, the police and Correctional Service ask her to meet with her attacker as part of his rehabilitation process. For Tara, the meeting is the beginning of her hell. Based on a true story.
The Love Europe Project is a collection of 9 short films by various directors from different European countries.
On a Saturday afternoon at a Norwegian play-land, a couple witness an argument between two mothers and the play-land manager. While the couple are wondering if they should intervene, something odd happens. Before they know it, the situation triggers underlying issues of their own.
Jonas has started a new life and lives in Scandinavia's least criminal town. But the facade falls when Jonas realizes that other inhabitants are former criminals with dark secrets. They will do anything it takes to protect their new lives.
After Nader and Janne share a tense moment in a bus doorway, this chance encounter transports them into a shared reality. As one door closes behind them, countless others open. Coincidence (or is it fate?) causes their paths to cross a second time, and they step through yet another doorway, into their future. Together, the couple must fight to face both minor challenges and major surprises.
The film is about the special phenomenon where convicted murderers receive love letters from strangers. Those who write these letters have never met the inmates. And the disturbing fact about this phenomenon is that the women who write don't know anything about the prisoner, other than what they are sentenced for.
For more than two years, Nader has been head over heels in love with Janne but unable to let her know — an untenable situation for both his work and creativity. At last, one night at the bar, it appears Nader may be able to finally speak and free himself from the writer's block that has plagued him.
Bill Benson was the toughest and hardest hitting hero in the wild west. But one day it happens. He gets stuck in a moment he can't get out of.
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
A big new home, a lovely wife and a new job seem to steer Henrik firmly towards the middle age and a bourgeois lifestyle. There is, however, a substantial amount of boyish prankster still in him - sometimes a little bit too much. Director Martin Lund's understated, offbeat humour often evokes Bent Hamer's delightful studies of lone males (O'Horten, Kitchen Stories)
A moment of false bravado and some imaginative letters allow shy, anxiety-ridden, thirteen-year-old Markus to connect with a Hollywood star, but when she returns home to Norway she wants to meet the thirty-six-year-old millionaire she believes him to be...
