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2008 | Color | 1h 30

Horten is a lonely man with a lot of time on his hands. He is trying to find the meaning of his life plagued by routine. For 40 years he has worked as a train conductor, and has never missed a trip. But for the first time, on his last day of work, Horten arrives late and misses his last departure.


Country: Noruega
Direction: Hamer; Bent
Script: Hamer; Bent
Production: Hamer; Bent
Photography: Christian Rosenlund; John
Sound: Solum; Morten
Music: Erick Kaada; John
Cast:Hjelmeland; Bjarte, Moan; Henry, Floberg; Bjørn, Nørby; Ghita, Skjønberg; Espen, Owe; Bård, Remlov; Kai
Participation year at FICM: 2009

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Home for Christmas

In a small, fictitious Norwegian town, we follow several different Christmas celebrations. Paul marches into his doctor?s office to unload himself of his burdens, but the doctor is beleaguered by problems of his own. There?s also a vagrant who runs into an old flame; a middle-aged couple in the throes of passion; a boy hopelessly in love with his Muslim neighbor, and a young couple whose car breaks down just as the wife goes into labor.

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