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Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.

After coupling, Angelo discovers that Alba has handcuffed him to the bed and will not let him go. A womanizer rediscovers fear, doubts and desire.

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. When her father dies, her fragile mother Madelene takes up with the jealous alcoholic Ole. Unable to prevent Madelene from being beaten, Lea winds up as a substance abuser.

The Self Portrait is a film about choice - choosing life. This is a choice no one can make for you, you will have to make it yourself. The Norwegian artist Lene Marie Fossen (32) is an up and coming, unique talent in the world of photography, facing an international breakthrough. Critics claim she is among the best still photographers in our present time. At the same time she appears to be dying from anorexia. Lene Marie stopped eating when she was ten years old. She didn't want to grow up. Over time the disease has gained control over her body and poisoned her thoughts. The main conflict of the film is the one within Lene Maries's mind, always waging war on itself. Galleries in several countries want to exhibit her art. Lene Maries biggest goal is to have a solo exhibition. Will she be able to travel the world? Can she rid herself of shame by exposing it? The use of Lene Marie's self portraits in this film will offer a unique perspective on the complexity of this illness. The anxiety. Death just a breath away. Raw, naked, honest. Lene Marie has come to a turning point. She has realized that she needs help to control her disease. If not, she will die. Her sensitivity made her ill, but will that also be what saves her?

Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.

Which human skills are we trying to learn the forthcoming generations? Childhood is observing 6-year-olds in a pre-school in Nesodden outside Oslo in the Direkt Cinema-tradition, made to debate when children are put into a school situation.

The movie follows students at Hauketo Continuation School the last months before the exams.

Margreth Olin has filmed 22 persons i their meeting with the well known voluntary healer Joralf Gjerstad. For 65 years more than 50.000 has gone to him to be healed from illnesses and ill-doings. He has never asked for a penny for this.

The massacres in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995 have been described as the worst genocide committed against civilians in Europe since World War II. This documentary film puts a face to the tragedy, in which more than 10,000 people were killed.

There's 27 million slaves in the world today. We find them in the sex industry, as child soldiers, as unpaid housekeepers and in production and as shop workers. We have all a responsibility for this.

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced new rules to enforce immigration. One was the rule for preliminary stay for sole minors under 18. Who's responsible for them?

A historical drama about a small boy, who decides to dedicate his life for fighting for goodness.

Hans Thomas Waaler has lost his big love: Liv Aud Waaler. He tells us about his life with Liv, from the time of youth when there was love at first sight, and over to the time when Liv suffered from Alzheimer. According to him, love has always a great price: Sorrow. This is his story.

Once there were fifteen bank buses rolling around in Norway. Then there was only one left, and it was run by driver Kåre Hauge in Luster municipality where people loved to use bank in the bus.

Six people meet in a room in order to discuss pornography, rape and Mother's Day.

The film concerns musical and personal disagreements in the band Merkesteinane.

The homeless boy Falken is living from day to day in Oslo, earning money as a boy prostitute. One night he sends a text message to the four most important women in his life.

Erlend and Alexander became friends in eighth grade. Now they are 34 years old. They are still friends.

Out of pure envy, a translator creates a mess while subtitling a French movie.

Who creates the image of yourself? Why do we hate our bodies? Margreth Olin uses her own body, without a thread to find out why her self image has been ruined.

Bo comes from the Central Statistical Office in order to ask questions about the quality of life. Wenche does not like her quality of life, but is more than keen to answer Bo.