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Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

What started as a docu-drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, became an investigation of a massive hoax and an unprecedented international cover-up.The Magnitsky Case in the version of the financier Bill Browder became the basis for laws and sanctions targeting Russian police and other officials, and for the claims that Putin personally had received a share of the millions looted from the Russian people. The film's director and a Kremlin critic, Andrei Nekrasov discovers that a narrative defining Western Russia policies is riddled with falsehooods.

A personal journey of director Avani Rai, who follows her father, the famous Indian photographer Raghu Rai.

A documentary on the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China, under strict control by the Chinese government.

In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.

A camera in the hands of African Union soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, captures the war on the jihadist militants in Al-Shabaab.

As life crumbles, a struggling musician takes a big leap to find his true artistic expression. A life-changing process ensues with an unlikely source of inspiration.

Exposing the true face of the fur industry

A film that captures the live theatrical musical whose backstory is explored in Andrzej Fidyk's documentary film "Yodok Stories". The performance - shot in Seoul, South Korea in 2006 - creatively tells the shocking true story of a group of escapees from one of North Korea's most notorious concentration camps.

Norway has had one royal family for over 100 years, but now there is a man in the little community Fusa on the West Coast who challenges the centralized government and Oslo-based royalty. He decides to make Fusa the second kingdom of Norway, installing himself as supreme ruler. In a respectful but fairytale-like ceremony, Morten Holmefjord is crowned King of Fusa. Soon afterwards, he starts the necessary steps in order to secure his Rebel Kingdom sovereignty. He founds the Central Bank of Fusa, validates the Fusian currency and issues Fusian passports. The King then orders a Fusian flag, and soon it waves in the moist winds of the North sea. But all is not well in the little kingdom. The citizens, supportive of the King at first, start to divide. Some turn against him, and threats of violence and exclusion reaches the King. »I feel like I have released a Frankenstein monster. I have lost all sense of control» says the Fusa King. The film follows the King through the critical months where the future of the small kingdom will be determined. In order for Fusa to declare independence, the King must win the public vote. If he loses, he must abdicate and go in exile. There is a lot at stake.

A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the demonstrators' goals have not even come close to being reached. The country is ruled with an iron fist and there is still no democracy. The 'eye of the world' has moved elsewhere. How things have been in Egypt since 25 January 2011 is explained using five portraits of people from various walks of life. What have the sacrifices on Tahrir Square at the start of 2011 yielded? Unfortunately, not a great deal; this much is apparent from the stories of five Egyptians involved, about six months after the historic revolution. A young horse herdsman tells how he drove to the square to ask for the pyramids to be opened again; he only just managed to survive that day. A taxi driver talks about his six years in prison, the torture, and how the police now behave worse than ever. A young woman talks about intimidation and unjust arrests, which according to human rights lawyers are happening continuously. The young Salwa describes how she met her first love during the demonstrations. And then the brother of Michael Nabil: a blogger who was arrested because of his internet comments and is now on hunger strike - he is followed on Tahrir Square during the protests that still continue against the ongoing violations of human rights.

In this documentary we meet Linn and Mikael, two young members of the charismatic Christian congregation "Living Words" in Bergen, Norway. Linn and Mikael are getting married, and since they don't believe in sex before marriage, they have never had sex, never kissed each other, and never slept in the same room. Straight to Heaven is a personal meeting with a young couple who have left all their decisions in life in the hands of God.

The heavily trafficked Bergen street Nygårdsgaten gets taken over by the international art project Streetlevel. The artists behind the project describe it as an art project set within the public urban space which unites different artistic positions and presents them in specific urban and social situations. One of the main goals is to turn the street into a scene for experimenting, and to enable reflections over the prevailing social and urban structures. The film explores the impact of the project on the general public, which includes bodily injuries, vandalizing and repeated theft of artwork.

How new technology creates new addictions and other unwanted consequences.

SCIENTIFIC POETRY is a series of short, poetic documentary films in the crossroad between life/death and God/science, made in collaboration with performance artist Kurt Johannessen. FIRST MEMORY (FØRSTE MINNE) (6 min) is a short documentary with live portraits of people under water. CONVERSATION (SAMTALE) (3 min) is a short, poetic film about the art of conversation. ANNAMME (2 min) is a small and poetic film about the art of receiving.