Gudmundur Gunnarson

Teenage Life Interrupted

Never before have there been so many children and young people with unexplained symptoms in Norwegian hospitals. Here, we meet four of them and two doctors at the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) in Tromsø who insist that they must get help.

Hello World

The film follows the lives of four queer youths who are the first ones in their social circles to come out as openly gay before their 16th birthday.

Hamada

Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.

The Men's Room

Every Tuesday twenty-five tattooed middle-aged men take a break from their everyday lives to meet and drink beer, tell bad jokes and sing dirty rock songs. They have landed their biggest gig ever – warming up for Black Sabbath. But one of them confides he’s got little time left to live. This summer becomes a race against time and death.

Rebels

European statistics shows that every 6th youth between 18 and 24 drops out of school before finishing their upper high school education. Meet four Norwegians who have become high school dropouts.