Movies

Elling (2001)

Two men who meet in a state home are released and given an apartment in Oslo. They are desperately dependent on one another, but manage to make peculiar friendships and get through everyday tasks in this Oscar-nominated comedy.

Cool and Crazy (2001)

This documentary about the Berlevag Men's Choir tracks several generations of singers working in a small fishing village in Norway. The men tell their life stories (their first loves, a past drug addiction, gutting fish), sing proudly outside during a Nordic blizzard, and tour in Russia.

Other Side of Sunday (1998)

Directed by Berit Nesheim, this Oscar-nominated film follows Maria, a Norwegian girl in the 1950s chafing under the strictures of her father, the town's priest. But then she strikes up a friendship with the church secretary, with whom her father is having an affair.