Jan Garbarek Movies

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told...

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help...

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder...

Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space,...

In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled...

Based on the autobiographical notes by Leonhard Lentz the film tells the story of a man who was diagnosed with throat cancer. Besides the progress of...

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for...

Standard Norwegian TV-drama from the 1980's

In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a «normal person» and travel into outer...

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to...

Young Maria lives her upper class life in the shadow of her husband Carl, and gets pregnant. She doubts her value as a wife, and is drawn to a couple...

The young Oslo lawyer Helen sees a man fall from a balcony, and realizes afterwards it's her father. Suicide or murder?

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps...

A portrait of a deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an incredible personality in the middle of a...

The keeper of the light house, Ewert, lives at the coast with his wife and daughter, constantly thinking about the lost love of his past, Maria...

Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of the most original avant-garde composers. This documentary shows Pärt as a deeply spiritual man whose work...

Eva is an elderly woman facing loneliness and confinement. Her only companion is a lizard who also lives confined in a fishbowl. Today, Eva decides...

Time-lapsed film from the perspective of a train moving slowly down the railroad tracks.

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective...