Movies: Knut Erik Jensen

In a dystopian future set in the northern part of Norway, a big corporation have stripped the sea of fish leaving locals without food and income....

Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnma...

The northern Norwegian village of Rallkattlia is experiencing the problems currently ravaging the coast more severely than ever before. What happens when the fish are gone, agriculture is unprofitable, and the bank has gone bankrupt? We witness the r...

A fresh and colorful meet with the local revue on the island Magerøya in Finnmark county in North-Norway. We get to know all the local people in the revue - old, young, women and men - and hear their own stories....

A love affair between a Swedish nurse and a Russian prisoner of war during World War II....

A young girl tries to find her own way through life in the ruins after a war that has left everything desolate....

Much as Buena Vista Social Club revealed a rich and unexplored world of music and culture, Cool & Crazy introduces us to a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame, as members of a male choir in Berlevåg....

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the info...

Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again....

When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the scar...

"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natura...

A follow up to the original "Cool & Crazy" about the men's choir in Berlevåg. Here they go on a trip to the United States, after becoming famous as a result of the first movie....

An ambivalent, vague and nostalgic journey into the night; a woman and a man move dream-like down a desolate Hollywood Boulevard....

A young couple roams through a landscape of ruins, devasted by war. Time seems to disappear to remind us that what has already taken place can happen again....

A documentary film that addresses aspects of children's gender role patterns, in a serious, humorous way....

A surreal portrait of the landscape of Finnmark, Norway...

In the Avalanche forest, a boy and a girl give free rein to their dreams and imagination. Past and present intertwine, time fades....

This is a music film: ”When I am chilled by the sun, and burnt by frost, when I feel everything is lost. There is still a light burning in the fog, My home in Honningsvag...”...

The acute man is a film about hope and despair. It is the story of idealism and arrogance of power, a story of friendship across borders and religions. But above all it is the story of a person who refuses to give in, a doctor who has a goal to work ...

"Du må våkne" (You must wake up) is the only dialogue line in the feature film STELLA POLARIS, by the Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen. An experimental portrait of the director in the reflections in the windows of a train....