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The Snow Caveman
The Snow Caveman has lived in snowcaves high up in the icy Norwegian mountains for 20 years. Like Nietzsche’s Zarathustra he has invented his own morale and hard hitting humour. His life is far from the bourgeois materialistic life in the new Scandinavian welfare states. He is a true ecologist, living amongst the blizzards and reindeer high in the Norwegian mountains.
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Waffles and Violence
Outlaws Mc is one of the worlds biggest motorcycle clubs and has for the last years had a massive growth in Norway. In this documentary we follow the Outlaws during one motorcycle season, from April to October.
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Strictly Confidential
At the age of 30, director Benedicte Orvung discovers that her family is hiding a dark secret. The discovery leads her to a shocking story: Her grandfather’s brother, Karl Marthinsen, was one of the most prominent Nazi collaborators and a Nazi Police leader during WWII.
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A Beautiful Life
For 14 year old Espen, it means a lot to swim and snorkel with his father. Other boys get their "dad thing" through playing football with their fathers. Espen can't do that because he's sitting in a wheelchair. But he's just like a fish in the water. A Beautiful Life is a portrayal of Espen from the age six to sixteen. Espen has a rare metabolism disease that's made him wheelchair-dependent.
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Brothers
Aslaug Holm is both a director and photographer, and wants to go in to the childrens’ authentic world and discover the truth and original life. In a period of three years she films her boys, and the result will turn into a unique document about childhood and brotherhood – and life, for a grown up audience.
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Gunnar Goes God
A Scandinavian man’s quest for truth in the experience of God vs. the experience of middleclass boredom
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Intwari - Heroes of Hope
Fifteen years ago Hutu women helped Tutsi women and children to hide from the Rwandan massacres. This heritage of love and protection is the core of Save — the village of the widows.
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Robert Crumpton's Shakespeare
Robert Crumpton’s Shakespeare will be the definitive account of the centuries old debate – did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? –who will finally be convinced that everything they’ve build their reputation on is false; and could history be changed forever?
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The Leaf
The Leaf follows the two sisters Agnes and Eleonora. The video recordings started when Agnes was a baby, first as a documentation of her epileptic seizures. In the early recordings Agnes plays with her three years older sister Eleonora, but after a long period of violent seizures Agnes stops babbling and turns her eyes away – focusing on specific things like running water. While the camera registers Agnes’ development, Eleonora dances off-screen,saying ’Mommy, look at me!’
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04.03.2010 - 13.03.2010, Canada
Freeze Frame, Winnipeg
The Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat
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05.03.2010 - 14.03.2010
Miami International Film Festival
Still Birds | Sara Eliassen
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10.03.2010 - 18.03.2010, Prague
One World International Human Rights Film Festival
Russian Lessons | Andrei Nekrasov
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10.03.2010 - 14.03.2010, Stockholm, Sweden
Tempo Documentary Festival
Controll | Hanne Myren
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10.03.2010 - 14.03.2010, Finland
Tampere International Film Festival
The Other Ones | Hisham Zaman Russian Lessons | Andrei Nekrasov
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10.03.2010 - 21.03.2010, France
Nordic Film Festival in Rouen
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11.03.2010 - 21.03.2010, Turkey
Ankara International Film Festival
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11.03.2010 - 14.03.2010, Greece
Athens Animation Festival
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12.03.2010 - 21.03.2010, Mexico
Guadalajara International Film Festival
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12.03.2010 - 21.03.2010, Greece
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
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13.03.2010 - 21.03.2010, Austin, Texas
SXSW
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15.03.2010 - 20.03.2010, France
Festival Intl du Film d'Aubagne
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16.03.2010 - 20.03.2010, Sweden
BUFF Film Festival, Malmø
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17.03.2010 - 24.03.2010, Germany
Regensburger Shot Film Week
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18.03.2010 - 28.03.2010, Montréal, Canada
FIFA - International Festival of Films on Art
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Films and Festivals

From Prison to Parliament
 -2010 DocPoint, Helsinki

My Mother's Farm
 -2010 Salt Spring Island Film Festival, Canada

Russian Lessons
 -2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival
 -2010 Onwe World International Human Rights Film Festival, Prague
 -2010 Tampere Film Festival, Finland
 -2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival
 -2010 Sundance Film Festival

Our Man in Kirkenes
 -2010 Tromsø International Film Festival

The Fabulous Fiff and Fam
 -2010 Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim

A New Life
 -2010 Montreal Human Rights Film Festival, Canada

Martin - the Ghost
 -2010 Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival

Control
 -2010 SXSW, Austin
 -2010 Tempo Documentary Film Festival Stockholm
 -2010 Minimalen Short Film Festival

Human
 -2010 FIFA - Intl Festival of Films on Art, Montréal

Carl Størmer and his Detective Camera
 -2010 FIFA - Intl Festival of Films on Art, Montréal
 -2010 Flickerfest, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia

Killing Girls
 -2010 Thessalonoki International Documentary Film Festival

Hunting Down Memory
 -2010 Göteborg International Film Festival

Suddenly Sami
 -2010 Skábmagovaf Film Festival, Ouluu, Finland

Olav H. Hauge - The Other Man
 -2010 FIFA - Intl Festival of Films on Art, Montréal

Yodok Stories
 -2010 Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
 -2010 Victoria Film Festival, Canada

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