Movies: Øystein Mamen

Maria finds herself at a crossroads when her husband suddenly announces that he wants to end their relationship. She must either let her whole world come crashing down, or come to terms with the life she has and find a way forward....

Dagne (13) experiences mastery and independence in the stable. She and the other horse girls measure strength by defrosting the strong horses. Inside the gang is an expectation of what awaits them in adulthood. When the 34-year-old blacksmith arrives...

This documentary follows a group of children in a rural kindergarten for a year, portraying a genuine learning process in the midst of nature....

Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While...

In this humorous, yet bitter-sweet, short film Dear Lisa, we start out with the speeches Lisa have received through life - from her father's confirmation speech to her friend's birthday speech, her husband's words for her on their wedding day, and du...

A film about the challenges in shared lives, but also about one woman's opportunity to become more aware of herself and adapt her dysfunctional patterns....

Fanny is in her mid-twenties and has just moved back to her hometown to start at the local University. During student orientation week she struggles to bond with the other students, and decides to seek out an old friendship....

During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician....

"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human l...

In 1999, Serbian military forces and Albanian guerrillas were fighting in Kosovo. Serbs and Albanians lived separate lives. As their country verged on war, a group of brave students decided to meet their opponents for the first time....

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. They should be returned to their country of origin when they t...

The documentary is a portrait of an artist and a portrait of a deadly disease. Lene Marie Fossen was a gifted photographer who suffered from severe anorexia. Self Portrait is a film about the power of art and survival, but it also raises important qu...

A teenager relocates to a new environment but can't quite escape the reach of his traumatic past, in Yatzy, a haunting coming of age saga from Norwegian director Katja Jacobsen. At the age of 15, Daggi has fallen in love with the wrong girl, and has ...

Behind the success of Hariton Pushwagner we find a dramatic story about a son of a wealthy family who became homeless, only to end up as a celebrated artist. Pushwagner himself says, "It's not true but it's a good story". Against this backdrop, the f...

We follow Rebekka in her everyday life. She is independent, ambitious and full of initiative, at the same time as being addicted to attention and intimate relations as a mean to avoid closeness to her real problems....

This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of s...

It's late night in a burger bar in Wales......

Twenty-year-old Maria is a troubled and lonely girl who falls in love with the grounded and patient Adam. He is the first boyfriend to treat her nicely, but Maria struggles with her past and the relationship with her dad, who left her when she was ve...

A journey through one year in the life of Ole and his family, living in Brochmannsgate 12A, Oslo, Norway, Europe, Earth, Universe. What if you would take a break from the rollercoaster called life and just sit and ask yourself: how did I get here? Do...

After a bed bug infestation at her shared flat, Emilie becomes temporarily homeless. Rejecting every offer of help out of pride and fear of rejection, she instead gets entangled with the other so-called parasites of society....