Benjamin Helstad
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Forbannelsen
A priest has been tasked with deciding the location of a new church for the local mining company, which reveals itself to be on top of an old Sami burial ground. After removing the remains, the dead come alive and haunt the settlers.
Prosjekt Z
A group of film students take three unemployed actors to an abandoned motel in the Norwegian mountains to make a zombie film. Fiction suddenly becomes reality when an unknown creature begins to terrorize the film set.
Fjols til fjells
A comedy series about some of the most Norwegian things there is, namely cabin coziness on the winter mountains - and all that entails of idyllic situations and relational disasters.
Kielergata
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.
En affære
A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
ZombieLars
ZombieLars is an exciting comedy-drama series for kids from 8 to 12. 11-year-old Lars is a half-zombie, or, to be politically correct, "living unliving." In his new hometown, his kind are rare and frowned upon. But he soon discovers others who are different: a ninja, a witch, a troll, and a changeling, to name some.
Hoggeren
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.
Grenseland
To protect his family, police detective Nikolai covers up a murder case. But when his co-investigator Anniken suspects foul play, he is trapped in a dangerous game on duty, blurring the line between right and wrong.
Rosemari
The bride finds a baby on the toilet floor of a hotel. 16 years later the girl turns upon her doorstep needing to find her biological family. A funny, touching story about how sex, lies, and biology created the beautiful flower Rosemari.
Det som en gang var
A big city trip is the start of the end if a great friendship. At dawn the next day, nothing is like it was the day before. Even the best of friendships may grow, or fall, apart. How to know when to fight, or when to let a friend go?
Cave
A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
Birkebeinerne
Year 1206. Norway is ravaged by civil war. The King's illegitimate son is guarded in deep secret. A boy that half of the kingdom wants to kill and two men will protect to the death. A boy named Earl Håkonsson. Birkebeiners is the story of the escape that changed Norway's history forever.
Kampen om tungtvannet
The story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.
Beatles
At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatles relates the story of four Oslo boys born in 1951 and hooked on The Beatles, from the time they as seventh graders find themselves on the threshold of the adult world.
Å begrave en hund
How far are you willing to go to keep your childhood best friends? Not very far. What happens when the yearly trip this turns out very different from what's normal?
Kongen av Bastøy
Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?
Engelen
As the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later, flashbacks reveal her disturbing youth and young adulthood. From the wrong side of the tracks, Lea grows up in a small house on the edge of the forest.
Jakten på nyresteinen
A little kid shrinks himself so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.