Movies: Bård Kjøge Rønning

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval....

"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait of Hossein in Teheran -he was in Switzerl...

After the death of her mother 18-year-old Sahar is left in charge of her poor, mentally disabled father in an isolated village in Iran. Sahar dreams of attending university and becoming a doctor, but extended family insist she play the role of careta...

To promote SIAN (Stop the Islamization of Norway) racist-ivist Lars Thorsen publicly burns the Qu’ran, hiding behind freedom of expression laws. The outraged public pushes back in this revealing look at the street-level battle for democracy....

Line is 17 years old, has downs syndrome and her dream is to make a film. Now she gets the chance! We follow Line as she writes, directs an edits her film....

Growing up in the bohemian community at Hydra with Leonard Cohen as a stepfather, Little Axel tells a story of neglect and an overload of freedom....

Elliot’s anxiety grows as he’s observing the brutal landscape and the mystical, village of his Basque grandparents. As a Norwegian, he struggles to adapt, unlike his sharp-witted French cousins. And who is Brouillarta?...

The last bohemian is a portrait of the Norwegian author and singer Oystein Wingaard Wolf who has a manic appetite for social life, art and beauty. He lives, financially and emotionally, from hand to mouth, greedily at moments. A poetic and human trav...