Berlin FF Line-up 2010

A children's film about courage and friendship!

Julie, Mette and Naisha are best friends and classmates. One day Naisha and her mother suddenly disappear. It turns out their refugee application has been rejected and they will be sent back home - if the police finds them.

February 15th - 9:30 pm - Zoo Palast 1
February 16th - 11:00 am - Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
February 21st - 11:30 am - CinemaxX 3

CHILDREN | NORWAY | 79 MIN

A warm film about being young, searching for yourself and for love

The half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway as young children and are separated on arrival. They grow up in opposite parts of Oslo, he in a wealthy west-side family and she in an average home on the east side, without knowing the other’s fate.

In a hopelessly small town somewhere in long and narrow Sweden, lives Maja, 18 years old. Her life’s dream is to become an actress.

She wants to be the centre of attention, she wants everyone to see her, wants them to see the beautiful human being she is on the inside. Only it’s a little hard to see. Heavily overweight, clumsy and socially inept, Maja struggles to realise her life’s dream during her final term at high school.

How can you escape when they see everything? 

Driving back to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock where a policeman tells them to take a detour deep into the Swedish forest. What Lina and Martin don’t know is that they are under constant video surveillance and have been cast in the leading roles of a live Internet snuff movie with a definitive end. 

A thriller based on true events in Norway during the WW II

Tor Lindblom makes a fortune supplying the Nazis with everything from liquor and cigarettes to cement and steel. He also owns the Club Havana, a nightclub in Oslo frequented by the industrial elite of occupied Norway, Officers of the Wehrmacht and opportunistic hustle...

Toronto International Film Festival - Discovery Section

This is a story about a father and his son’s journey through a landscape of sorrow, after they tragically lose the one person they love the most. It’s about how they deal with their new everyday life without her, and their strain to win control over the new situation.