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Over one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in court

Marriage Uncensored is an entertaining, candid and brutally honest series, based on anonymous interviews with women and men, baring their souls about the challenges of marriage - totally uncensored.

Investigative journalist Lena Kalle discovers that the story of the Norwegian "German girls" is sealed in Norwegian archives. This leads to a year-long hunt for what is hidden in the secret archives. Shocking stories from the few surviving women and witnesses reveal an unknown chapter in Norwegian post-war history. Along the way, she encounters significant resistance from the Norwegian state, but also unexpected help from inside the system. "Unforgivable" documents the brutal, state-sanctioned abuses against Norwegian women who fell in love with German soldiers during World War II, and questions who were cast as heroes and villains when the story of the Norwegian post-war settlement was written.

A poetic, humorous and stunning tribute to the city of Bergen, Norway. Based on archive footage from the last century and packed with Bergen music from Grieg to Vaular.

Deep in the earth beneath the Norwegian permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. For the first time ever, seeds held there from a major gene bank in Aleppo are now being replicated, after its holdings were left behind when the institution had to move to Lebanon due to the civil war. It is refugees from Syria who are carrying out this painstaking work in the fields of the Beqaa Valley. In the Levant, dry conditions and the power of global agricultural corporations are the biggest challenge, while in the Arctic Circle - where the seed vault was supposed to withstand anything - it is rising temperatures and melting glaciers.

Performer Runar Gudnason, best known from the group Side Brok, travels back in time to find out why he became a rapper.

"CODE NAME: Nagasaki" tells the story of Marius and Fredrik, two young men who forged their friendship through filmmaking and decided to put their skills to a unique challenge: finding Marius' long lost Japanese mother.

The siblings Magnar (75) and Oddny (72) has lived together all their life, and run the old family farm together, like generations before them. One day they get a letter from relatives in Minnesota, inviting them to America.

Damla is an art student who begs on the streets alongside the Rom woman Bianca, with whom she develops a friendship. The action starts as a performative art project, but soon it turns into an existential crisis for Damla, who must handle critique from her classmates, teacher and from Bianca.

A short film based on authentic chats from an Internet forum. The film deals with how we talk to each other online, and portrays how many of us seek guidance and confirmation to help us maneuver in a world that seems confusing and strange.

A cinematic letter to a future great-grandchild weaves together a story of personal loss, family and the difference each of us can make in the world.

The twin sisters Eli and Torill is living with a developmental disability. Their close and unique relationship have lasted for 52 years, but the special bond between them is broken when one of them gets terminally ill.

Norway has long had some of the strictest drug laws in Europe - with an emphasis on punishing rather than helping addicts. In recent years, the little country has also been on top of the European death by overdose statistics, but now change is on the way. In this humane and insightful documentary we follow three drug-user activists who are fighting to change the way we think about how we treat men and women with an addiction. By presenting us with the perspectives and experiences of people who've lived the consequences of moralistic drug laws, «THE WINDS OF CHANGE» shows us why reforms are absolutely necessary.

Helge Sivertsen lived anonymously in the same apartment block in Bergen, Norway, his whole life, first with his parents and later by himself. Helge died at home alone at the age of 60 years, 2 months and 27 days.

Naoki Hayakawa is an art director at an advertising agency in Tokyo -an environment where creativity and all-consuming work conditions become an alienating whole.

A poetic short documentary, describing the close relationship between a dog and people living on the fringes of society.

Finn Kleppe spent his entire life travelling Norway to preach the gospel, while his wife and three daughters were waiting at home. In the documentary Preacher Man his daughter Elisabeth takes him on one last journey across the country, from church to church, to try to understand her father's choice in life.

When the Norwegian rap-group Side Brok got success with rhymes in their local dialect and lyrics inspired by their hometown, the national music industry didn't know what to think. The fans loved them, but was hip-hop from the rural town of Hovdebygda just a joke? The film is an intimate portrait of Side Brok through six years of ups and downs. A story of a one-of-a-kind hip-hop universe with mountains, fjords, rednecks, humor and irony, but also of true friendship and love of words and music.