Category: Documentary

Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.

A film about a man’s fight against the chocolate giants and a billion-dollar industry that ruthlessly exploits illegal child labor. Twenty years ago, the largest cocoa producers signed an agreement to abolish child slavery. But nothing has happened and the use of child labor has only increased – all to keep prices down.

In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year…

Forty years ago, policeman Bob Leuci and a group of prosecutors brought down New York’s most corrupt police unit; a case that launched the careers of his prosecutors but gave Bob Leuci the legacy of NYPD’s biggest “rat”.

Three Russian women in their 30s all seek the same things: security, a higher social status, and eternal happiness. Not an easy wish to fulfill in today’s Russia, where the patriarchy dominates. So our heroines take matters into their own hands and join a course in the art of seducing a man–preferably a rich one.…

In search of the anonymous faces of the people freed from Nazi camps, who debarked in Malmö, Sweden, on April 28 1945.

A three-part essayist documentary look into the universal human desire to be somewhere else in the form of traveling abroad.

Mike Stilson and Sven Bisgaard Sundet have decide to live a whole year without scrolling on a phone. But this is gonna be a tricky challenge they’ve put on themselves.

In SOMMERBARNA, filmmaker Linn Helene Løken explores her mother’s untold story and the programme she was part of. In 1957, a four-year-old girl named Gaby came from West Berlin to Sandefjord in Norway to spend the summer with a new family. She was one of about 70 000 children sent to Norway and Sweden during…

A personal family epic, where Danish-Pakistani director Anita Mathal Hopland looks back at the history of her two families over 15 years in Karachi and Copenhagen. Moosa Lane is the name of the street in the Pakistani capital Karachi where one half of Anita Hopland’s family lives. The other half lives in Denmark. In her…

A documentary film about classical music, female agency and the cultural clashes and contradictions experienced by the Japanese classical pianist Eriko Makimura. Director Jannik Splidsboel Stars Ramona MachoEriko Makimura See production info at IMDbPro

In 2007, Morten and his classmates start first grade at a small school in Northern Norway. We follow his upbringing at school, how he is met and tackled by the teachers and how he develops over 10 years. He starts motivated and enthusiastic, but quickly becomes bored when he does not get enough challenges and…

Ola Ravn (27) dreams of living on his own terms. He decides to build an off-the-grid mini house that purifies rainwater and gathers its own solar power. He wants to prove that you can live both soberly and richly with economic freedom and a sustainable lifestyle.

A funny and sometimes dramatic time travel, from 1906 up to our own time. A collage of small films from national archives and private homes, some never shown. A film about the common and human Norway from new nation to oil era.

Can one make music with nature as the instruments? The eccentric sound artist Eirik Havnes is preparing his most ambitious project ever: A symphonic masterpiece with the nature as his orchestra.

Mads Ousdal discovers as an adult that his babysitter at one time was Norway’s most hated man after a national crisis in the 1960s. Was the babysitter a criminal, or was he used as a scapegoat to save Norway’s most powerful politician?

This is the story of Roghieh, a woman in Southern Iran who is trying to secure jobs for women in her community through a Bazaar she established and runs, where over 800 women work, but a local politician, the mayor, threatens her. He wants to destroy the Bazaar and build a big shopping mall.

Liv Grannes from Mosjøen became Norway’s highest decorated woman after World War II. But, both her achievements, and Stalin and Churchill’s false flag operation in Helgeland, disappeared in the darkness of history. Why?

Dilya became a human rights activist the day her brother was thrown in prison, accused of being a terrorist. She challenged the dictatorship, escaped her home country but realized that the regime was closer than she could ever imagine.

We follow Jan Erling from Norway as he gets his first real chance of a major breakthrough on tour with his childhood hero Joe Lynn Turner.

Det forførte menneske: The Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth has provoked audiences world wide for a lifetime. He is living his life as an observer, governed by his senses. After 40 documentaries, and 20 years in chaotic Haiti – until the earthquake destroyed his home in 2010 – what is the meaning of such a life?…