Trollfilm 2

Almost fifty years of artistic family collaboration culminate in an exuberant self-homage: The de Noojers celebrate life – and death – as a final joint total work of art.

While Anita Killi is undergoing chemotherapy, Maja and her siblings turn their mother’s hair transformation into a warm-hearted pixilation film – winner of the 2017 Golden Dove.

An intimate cut-out animation leafs metaphorically through the family album and reveals the dramas that unfolded behind the staged photos: arguments, alcohol and loneliness.

A young hero sets out for the golden palace. A troll wakes up, geese take flight, fog turns into night. Theodor Kittelsen’s paintings and Norway’s landscapes come to life.

A bird flies over oil-polluted oceans, through burning forests, past dead insects – and becomes human. An activist plea for more empathy with our planet.

The King has vanished! The commander, the chamberlain, the jester and the deputy go in search of a new ruler. A deceptive fable with quirky characters.

Playing hide-and-seek in the dark courtyard, Vanja is frightened by the many shadows. He transforms himself into a dangerous tiger and discovers that even the big ones are scared sometimes.

What is left when everything fades away? An old photographer searches his photographs for people and events that disappear into the dark, return, and eventually haunt him.