The Chieftain

In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed. The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience. Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity. Others have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children. Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.

Under the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.

A young girl growing up in Bergen, Norway just after the 2nd world war, is trying to deal with the father's adultery and mother's deep depression, as she befriends a boy.

Set in Bergen anno 1912 in a time of social distress, class division and depression. Follows the day of Herdis, an eight year old girl from the upper class, while her family is disintegrating

In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame.

The 50 year old house wife Ingrid is unsuccessful in her first job after the kids have grown up. her husband send her to a stay at a summer hotel, where she return to spirit and goes back home only to find him in bed with a lover.

During World War I in Norway, the lives of a shipping agent and his family are put under pressure when he becomes bankrupt and his wife's mentally disturbed sister comes to stay.