Film recommendations for the summer!
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Kosmorama recommends films for the whole summer. You can catch these titles either on the big screen or on various streaming services.
Memoir of a snail
Where to watch: Trondheim kino
Didn't catch this gem of a film at Kosmorama 2025? Now you have another chance to see it on the big screen at Trondheim Kino!
Grace Pudel loves romance novels, guinea pigs, and snails. Her life story is marked by misfortune and hardship, and things take a particularly painful turn when she is separated from her twin brother Gilbert and placed in foster care. Together with us, she reflects on life's many trials in this beautiful Australian film about self-discovery and appreciating the good things in life, no matter the circumstances. The story is told through masterful stop-motion animation.
The film won the top prize at Annecy, the world’s largest animation festival, as well as Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival. It has also been nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
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Chungking Express
Where to watch: Streaming
Director Wong Kar Wai shines in this fantastic tale set in 1990s Hong Kong, featuring beloved stars Faye Wong and Tony Leung in two of the film’s leading roles. Chungking Express weaves together two life stories and love encounters in the Chungking complex — a building filled with shops, hotels, and entertainment. This is a beautiful film about lost love, secret admiration, and loneliness.
© Wong Kar Wai / Criterion
Heim
Where to watch: Trondheim Kino
When 39-year-old Anni loses her job and has to move back into her childhood bedroom at her mother’s house in her hometown, her world is turned upside down. It’s a situation that was never part of Anni’s carefully laid plans for her career or personal life. Suddenly, she’s single, broke, and unemployed.
Having spent her entire adult life running from the past, Anni is now forced—over the course of one summer—to confront everything she’s been avoiding. Can she face old friends, exes, and ghosts from her youth, or is it easier to escape it all and return to the capital?
What first seems like a disaster may just become a new opportunity—but only if she dares to face her past.
© Øystein Moe / SF Norge
Flow
Where to watch: Trondheim Kino
In this animated film for both children and adults, a cat sets out on a fantastic journey through a flooded world in search of dry land.
The world has come to an end, and all traces of humanity have vanished. In the ruins, we meet a cat living a lonely life. One day, a massive flood destroys his home, and he is forced to seek shelter on a boat where several other animals have also taken refuge. Though they are all different, they must learn to work together to adapt and navigate the dangers of the submerged landscape.
A visually stunning film about friendship, unity, and courage.
© Another World Entertainment
Spring Breakers
Where to watch: Streaming
Spring Breakers is a blend of drama, thriller, and comedy with cult film potential, directed by Harmony Korine. Four college girls are determined not to miss out on the wild party that is spring break—even if it means committing a robbery to fund the trip.
They head off to sunny Florida for the ultimate spring break experience, and at first, it’s all fun and games. But after a night of wild partying, they’re arrested for noise complaints, partying, and suspected drug use. Hungover and dressed only in bikinis, they find themselves in court facing a judge.
Out of nowhere, a mysterious figure named Alien appears—a local gangster who bails them out and takes them under his wing. What follows is a wild and unpredictable ride. Alien may be a criminal, but he’s also the kind who can get sentimental and play piano by the pool.
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Y tu mamá también
Where: Streaming
A sexy teen comedy, a sophisticated film and a subtle political commentary on modern-day Mexico. The biggest Mexican box office hit ever.
Two Mexican teenage boys from different social backgrounds have the summer and their entire lives ahead of them. Their girlfriends have gone on vacation to Europe, and the two boys have created a ten-point manifesto that expresses their cynical and hedonistic lifestyle. One of the rules is not to sleep with each other's girlfriends, another is that they should not fall in love with the same girl. With only girls, sex and drugs in mind, they embark on a lift trip with a beautiful Spanish woman who has been cheated on by her husband and is carrying a fateful secret.
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Hjem Kjære Hjem
Where to watch: Trondheim Kino
Hjem, Kjære Hjem (Home, Sweet Home) and director Frelle Petersen took the Kosmorama audience by storm during the 2025 festival. If you missed it then, you now have another chance — the film premieres at Trondheim Kino on June 27!
In Hjem, Kjære Hjem (Home, Sweet Home), we follow Sofie, a 32-year-old single mother searching for a fresh start in life. Along with her 10-year-old daughter, Clara, she moves to a small community in Southern Jutland and begins working as a home care assistant. Sofie finds purpose in the connections she builds with the elderly she helps, and in a job that gives her the sense of making a difference. But the work comes with its challenges. When a baseless complaint from a family member turns her life upside down, Sofie must juggle her care for others with the responsibility of raising her daughter.
The film explores, with insight and warmth, what happens when compassion fails the very people we care most about, and it sensitively portrays the struggles we all may face in our search for belonging and renewed purpose.
Hjem, Kjære Hjem (Home, Sweet Home) is the latest work from director Frelle Petersen, known for his heartfelt yet painful human dramas. Petersen — who won the Audience Award at Kosmorama 2020 for Uncle — continues his thematic trilogy on human relationships, which also includes Forever (Resten af livet). Though part of a trilogy, this film stands fully on its own and can easily be enjoyed without prior knowledge of the earlier works.
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How to have sex
Where to watch: Streaming
Tara, Skye and Em, three British teenage girls, travel on a package holiday to Crete, ready for a sizzling cocktail of alcohol and sex. One of the goals of the trip is for Tara to have sex for the first time. But when they meet the party-loving neighbouring gang at the hotel, the holiday takes an unexpected turn.
How to Have Sex delves into recognizable themes of youth with refreshing openness and raw honesty. With sparkling acting by Mia McKenna-Bruce in the role of Tara, and confident direction by debutant Molly Manning Walker, this is an energetic party pill with a stinging aftertaste.
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Deliverance
Where to watch: Streaming
Four ordinary men in two canoes navigate a river they only know as a line on a map, confronting a wilderness they only think they understand.
© Warner Bros EntertainmentWild Diamond
Where to watch: Trondheim kino
Wild Diamond was shown at Kosmorama 2025 and is back on the big screen on July 18!
“Is it a talent to be loved?”
Liane is a bold and ambitious 19-year-old with big dreams of becoming France’s answer to Kim Kardashian. Obsessed with her appearance—which she never feels is good enough—she seeks validation through social media. One day, a unique opportunity arises that could be her ticket to success: an audition for a reality TV show! This marks a gripping journey between self-realization and self-destruction.
Wild Diamond is Agathe Riedinger’s compelling and modern coming-of-age film, an impressive feature debut that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.
