The Recovery Channel

The Recovery Channel 2023

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Defeated by her own brother's decades-long struggle with the mental health system, a filmmaker contrives a fictional TV channel to expose the injustices of modern mental health treatments.

2023

Indian Summer

Indian Summer 2011

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When dreams and reality entangle, Torstein identifies himself as a Native American Indian. Indian Summer is the director's personal story about her younger brother, who has been battling schizophrenia for 17 years.

2011

The Green Valley

The Green Valley 2018

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The Green Valley is a short film that explores the connection between politics, art and daily life in a multicultural neighborhood in Oslo. The film is inspired by three real events that took place in the director's neighborhood.

2018

Megaheartz

Megaheartz 2023

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Can love exist without madness? An ultra-intense, high-speed (self-)portrait of four women exploring the darkest corners of love without a filter. Hard, brutal and real – to a score by electro-queen Eartheater.

2023

Making Sense Together

Making Sense Together 2018

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Making Sense Together investigates the relationship between power and powerlessness in psychiatric health care. The film is a hybrid, combining documentary with fictional elements.

2018

The Meeting Room

The Meeting Room 2017

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In this kafkaesque meeting a mother and her son is fighting a clogged bureaucracy that intensify the personal suffering it is supposed to remedy.

2017

To Do Good

To Do Good 1970

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What does it really mean to be good? What dilemmas arise when doing good? Through an episodic narrative structure, the good is explored across culture, class and ethnicity. With a humorous oblique look, Norwegian naivety, goodness and self-understanding are put to the test.

1970

The Wonders Beneath the Sea

The Wonders Beneath the Sea 2021

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A woman invites her mother to an underwater restaurant to celebrate her 70th birthday. Their seemingly everyday conversation opens up questions about the individual and society, privileges and responsibilities, belonging and rejection.

2021