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Against Anneli's wishes, she and her family moves from big city Oslo to rural Kautokeino, up far North in Norway. There she meets Isak, and together with him she discovers something fishy is going on. They can't trust the grown ups.

A young band from Norway sets out on a journey across the country to attend the National Championship of Rock in a race against time, police and parents.

When 10-year-old Oskar's mom leave him with his grandpa to go to America, he sets up a nutty plan to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat with his new friend Levi and his short-sighted horse.

Cairn is a dark film on adolescence in which the main character Johan (11) faces a moral dilemma after having started playing a seemingly innocent prank. The story unfolds on a l level in the turbulent transition between childhood and adulthood.

The director, Zaradasht Ahmed (1968), turns into a character in the film. His background and, not least, his inquisitiveness and fascination guide us as we enter this world of his. He himself has made the journey into Europe, albeit for separate and possibly more serious reasons than our other characters, but he has no trouble comprehending their motive power. Zaradasht fled from the First Gulf War; he had just graduated from the Kirkuk Institute of Technology in Northern Iraq. He wandered through the minefields in the Kurdish part of Iraq, and eventually reached Syria and later Lebanon. After five years on the run, he arrived in Norway in 1995 as a quota refugee. He still lives here, he has passed 40, and feels he has to move on. Life in Norway is safe and comfortable, but something is lacking. Fata Morgana lies to the south, beyond Gibraltar. Here he meets someone who reminds him of the dream he had as a young man.

Herleik has had an impressive production of graphic art, celebrated at exhibitions around the world, living in a home for mentally retarded. "Herleik" is a warm, human portrait, spotlighting the way we treat outsiders today.

This is the story behind the myth about a group of forgotten snowboard heroes, told in a heartfelt and enthusiastic way by the protagonists themselves. A film about a group of complete unknowns becomes proof that everything is possible, while at the same time being a melancholic reminder that nothing lasts forever.

Esa Nissi's documentary film about the symbiosis of man and the crow. A story about a peasant crow that tries to adapt to modern citylife. Winter is coming amd the nature of the countryside fails to provide enough nutrition to the crow. Fosterling of the countryside has to change it's lifestyle radically, migration to overwinter lies ahead. Luckily, unlike it's forefathers, the crow doesn't have to go through the moving flight to middle europe, the nearest city provides the means to winter. Could the swollen urbanized man help? "Crow" tells how the city community created by man embraces a migrant one autumn day.

Anna meets the artist Kim online. She longs to meet him in real life, and shows up unannounced at his vernissage. Imagine is about loneliness and longing for love. And how we through dreams build up our own reality.

A contemporary tale, where the unsaid has more significance than the spoken.

To the other side of the planet and back.

Ottar Brox has fought his whole life to enable Northern Norwegian coastal communities regain control of their basic resource: the ocean commons. To this day, as he turns 90-year-old, Ottar continues the struggle.

Have you ever seen the rhythmic movements of trained fishermen on deck of a fishing boat, tending the nets, cutting the fish, hooking the bait? All this in rough weather. Try to see it as a dance, and you have grasped the main idea of this film.

"The Chronicles of Polyaris" is a surreal portray of the abandoned Russian settlement Pyramiden on Spitsbergen from the point of view of a traveller lost in space and time.

A middle aged man takes the cable car to the top of the mountain above Tromsø. He has no plans to return. The freshman conductor and two cheerful sisters are also riding along, and the journey takes several unexpected turns.

1979. Mamma is turning sixty, which calls for a celebration. The day before her birthday, her two elder sons and their wives return to her home in a narrow valley in Northern Troms. Their younger brother, given to drink and still living at home, brings out some moonshine. Mamma has fallen asleep in the combi camper. The party takes off completely. And while hard liquor is being poured down open gullets, big brother's Sami jacket emerges from the closet. Conditions are ripe for a quarrel about origin and identity.

A conflict between a taxi driver and his annoying passenger.

Lilliseed has very important parents. They're so important, they have to be away almost all the time. But Lilliseed doesn't mind. Because when they're away, the best thing in the world happens. And the best thing in the world - is Grandma.

A portrait of a horse center in Bø in Vesterålen where disadvantaged young people are treated through work with horses and equine-assisted psychotherapy, introducing 1 actor among amateurs who play themselves, all with the same interest.

Two years ago, Roger Dahl (60) and Trine Lyrek (40) decided to make a plan for winning Europe's longest and toughest dog-sledge race, Finnmarksløpet. To raise the stakes, they even planned to win two years in a row. Her reason: she hadn't won it before. His reason: he wanted to win it one more time!