Sick Darkness

A classic from 1998. With the "original cast", Terje Formoe as Captain Sabertooth, Janne Formoe as Sunniva and Morten Usterud as Pinky. Fredrik Hognerud Træland plays Joachim, the kid who doesn't give up on his dream of the one and only King of the Sea.

For twenty-four years filmmaker Pål Winsents filmed his niece Christina while she navigated through life diagnosed with Kleefstra syndrome. The rare genetic disease leads to learning disabilities and reduced cognitive behavior, giving Christina a challenging journey in many arenas. But is twenty-four years enough time to break the code of who and what an individual really is? Gåten Christina is a playful and warm take on the mission to answer this question. Who Christina is today and how she faced the school system and workforce growing up. The result is an authentic and sincere portrait of a unique individual journey that empathically puts the spotlight on the challenges a person with psychological disabilities meet in an every-day life.

Should people care when central developments will affect the character of the place, or is this only a matter for builders, politicians and bureaucrats? Erling Okkenhaug's troubled Eastlander does not give up on Tørre Møkka (PTM method) when he sees that Risør's distinctive character is being threatened by developers who want to develop uniform apartment blocks in one of the best-preserved wooden townhouses in Europe.

And the Oscar goes to - Kurt Olav Helle. Make sure you remember the name. He will become a big star in Hollywood and make films full of raw action and hot chicks. But before the dream becomes reality the 51-year-old lonely man lives in Lonevåg, where he collects movies and old Donald Duck magazines. He sings karaoke, writes screenplays and sends out hopeful applications to fund his projects. Even though Kurt suffers from Parkinson's syndrome, he never gives up his dream of one day becoming a movie star.

The girls here received more punishment than the boys on Bastøy. Now four of them tell about the humiliations they experienced and as psychologist Gori Gunvald warned about in 1960.