Movies: Bjørn Sundquist

13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of...

Is The Fjord Witch superstition, or is it true that Satan's bride lives across Melkelva in the forest by Grytefjord? Does Tordenskjold find himself or someone else entirely? Who would win in a magic battle between Jesus and Harry Potter? These and ot...

Sundquist and Eidsvold play the two deep sea divers, who agree to do a quick unscheduled dive before taking their Christmas vacation, to help an oil company who's got a oil-valve caught in a trawl. The dive is to take only 5 minutes, and the divers w...

Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself....

The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The suspect list grows indefinitely. However, as Inspector Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre question the girl's family, and others, they realize she has a shock...

Helga Joner's daughter Ida leaves home bound for the local shop riding a yellow bicycle and wearing a red cycle helmet. Helga is shown to be an over-anxious mother who worries excessively about her daughter. She even resorts to calculating the approx...

The decade of the hippies is at an end and the 80's are approaching fast. Carl and Robert are two doped out guys who lives in harmony with the world around them and let life pass by in an eternal hash high. They have been peddling hashish for a decad...

A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend his family's actions during the war and their nightmares now. His imagin...

Thrane has always had his own method of dealing with life. He tends to slip away. But when he sees beautiful Mol the same day he moves to a new apartment, he knows he'll be staying, even though she's married. Her husband is away workdays. Starring o...

A collection of gay short films. The 10 short films are: Bikini (2004); Uproar [Vacarme] (2005); A Hard Blow [Le bon coup] (2005); The Homolulu Show (2004); Kissing Tigers [Embrasser les tigres] (2004); A Wonderful Day (2004); Boomerang [Comme un boo...

The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher's Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church communit...

Drama about a group of young people in 1933 Berlin in search of an identity find themselves drawn to dangerous movements in society....

Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times....

Two friends are discussing Star Wars episode 1, and get angry at each other. Questions about the movie soon becomes questions about their friendship....

The rise and fall of the "progg"-band "Verket"....

After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal liberationists find themselves under a vicious attack by the very groups they had expected the least tr...

Three friends since childhood are trying to work out their complicated relationships. Jonny tries to be best friends with Magnus, Magnus tries to be married to Tuva, and Tuva tries to have sex with Jonny....

Freely adapted from Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Hunger". A gifted artist goes through the same journey, hunger and pain in the Norwegian capitol Oslo as in 1890, but now during the Covid pandemic in the winter of 2021....

On a dark night, under a full moon, a childless couple find a crying baby on their doorstep and decide to adopt him. As the years pass, they come to discover that their young son is not like other children....

Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs....