Joachim Trier

Originally released in Norway in 2006. Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers. (imdb)

A businessman goes home during the working day to change his trousers having spilled coffee on himself. When he arrives in the underground garage below his apartment block he finds a car on fire with a dead man inside. He also finds himself being filmed. He takes the video upstairs to his home and watches a man do ordinary things like shave etc before covering himself in petrol and setting himself and his car alight. (imdb)

One man, one city, 24 hours. A new film by Joachim Trier and the team behind the highly acclaimed "Reprise" - inspired by the cult novel "Le feu follet". "Oslo, August 31st" is a portrait of contemporary Oslo. A visually striking and quietly shattering drama about a man in deep existential crisis. (nfi.no)

The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer. (imdb)

A woman begins to fall in love, only to discover that she has fantastic powers. (imdb)

Karl Ove Knausgaard, renowned Norweigian novelist, is asked to curate an exhibition of compatriot Edvard Munch's work. This documentary follows Knausgaard's process as he opines about Norway, art, aging and more. (imdb)

It chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is. (imdb)

Joachim Trier’s second short film. An ambitious short in which the story plays out in the mind of an old man about to die from a heart attack in a public park.

Julian tells the story of the loss of his best friend Jacob. Years later, he goes back to the place where Jacob died and finds himself caught up in a cathartic experience with Rebecca, Julian’s mother.