Program Series: Made in Norway

Johanna Pyykkö has crafted a stylish and realistic feature film debut about longing, desire, and manipulation with Min Fantastiske Fremmede. The film follows 18-year-old Ebba, who encounters a lonely man by the Oslo harbour who has lost his memory. She decides to lie to him, telling him that they are a couple.

How can you move on after losing the one you love? On a small farm outside Kongsberg, a family lives an alternative life in nature, but the harmony ends when the mother is diagnosed with cancer and passes away. This is a powerful and touching documentary about life that must go on – but perhaps one must find new ways to live it.

The Recovery Channel is structured like a news broadcast with reports, interviews, and two news anchors in the studio. It focuses on the use of coercion in Norwegian psychiatry, revealing how institutions strip individuals of their freedom. After the camera is turned off, news anchor Randi experiences the difficulty of being a close relative to her sister Ylva, who struggles with mental health issues and refuses help.

Filmmaker Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgård turns the camera on herself in this honest documentary. She was diagnosed with multiple mental disorders over a period of 15 years. Concurrently, she has documented her experiences with a video camera.

Mariam is an apple that has fallen far from the tree. She spends her days on the party scene in Oslo, far away from her childhood hometown in Gudbrandsdalen. One day, she gets a call from her older sister, Katrine, about a challenging dilemma: their father's urn has mistakenly been swapped with another, leading to the wrong person being buried under their father's headstone.

Mats Steen was born with a rare disease that caused him to gradually lose muscle strength. He died in 2014, only 25 years old. Parents Trude and Robert thought he lived a lonely life in his wheelchair, but after his death, it turned out that Mats had friends all over Europe through the online game World of Warcraft, where he went by the name Ibelin.

André and Vera are a well-functioning couple striving to make their mark in the business world. When they pitch their new health app in a prestigious entrepreneurial competition, they have a golden opportunity to secure wealthy investors. Shortly before the competition, Vera sees a hypnotist to quit smoking, but this has an unfortunate side effect: she loses all social inhibitions. With The Hypnosis, debutant filmmaker Ernst De Geer has created a modern relationship satire with a sky-high "cringe factor" about breaking down social norms and vain customs

Jan Gunnar Røise plays the isolated outsider Stein, who is obsessed with theories about the suppression of male sexuality. After his mother dies, Stein travels to Copenhagen to fulfill his greatest wish: to reproduce himself. Norwegian Offspring is a dark and absurd film about loneliness, desire, and sexuality.