Jan Garbarek

Las viudas de Ifni (2012)

Ifni ceased to be a Spanish province in 1969, the year in which it was transferred to Morocco. In 1965, General Franco's regime enacted a law that would prevent many of the widows of Moroccan personnel from the former colony from receiving their correspond ...

Today (2010)

Eva is an elderly woman facing loneliness and confinement. Her only companion is a lizard who also lives confined in a fishbowl. Today, Eva decides to force her granddaughter to take her on a ride in the car. ...

Space Tourists (2009)

In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a «normal person» and travel into outer space. For 20 million dollars, the American Anousheh Ansari was able to fulfil this childhood dream. This documentary ...

The Giant Buddhas (2005)

Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that all non-Islamic statues in the country be destroyed. De ...

An Enemy of the People (2005)

In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs. ...

Portrait of God (2001)

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective story. A middle-aged detective shadows the suspect through the highs and lows of South African society unt ...

Kippur (2000)

The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins wit ...

Vesna Goes Fast (1996)

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation. ...

A Year Along the Abandoned Road (1991)

A portrait of a deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an incredible personality in the middle of a magnificent Arctic nature. The 12 minute short film was filmed in 70mm Super Panavision, using a specially develop ...

Burning Memory (1989)

A man walks amongst an inferno of flames, shell-shocked. When he's back home, he starts group therapy in a military rehab center, meeting all kinds of fellow soldiers who, like him, have lost some of their beliefs or peace of mind in the battlefield. ...

Der Indianer (1988)

Based on the autobiographical notes by Leonhard Lentz the film tells the story of a man who was diagnosed with throat cancer. Besides the progress of the desease this film also focuses on the emotions and insights of the protagonist while being in therapy. ...

Das Totenreich (1986)

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakth ...

Du kan da ikke bare gå (1985)

Standard Norwegian TV-drama from the 1980's ...

The Magic Box (1985)

The vignette Tryllekassen (1985) by Inside Karine Melbye was in use for so many years that it is probably Norway's most watched animated film. ...

Paper Bird (1984)

The young Oslo lawyer Helen sees a man fall from a balcony, and realizes afterwards it's her father. Suicide or murder? ...

Variation (1983)

The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher. ...

Reisen til planeten Nazar (1983)

The story of the young student Nils Klim and his journey to the strange planet Nazar and meeting the people who live there. ...

Contrecoeur (1983)

Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other. ...

Maria Marusjka (1973)

The keeper of the light house, Ewert, lives at the coast with his wife and daughter, constantly thinking about the lost love of his past, Maria Marusjka. Worried about his daughter, about to be a woman, he makes the wrong decisions. ...

Exit (1970)

Young Maria lives her upper class life in the shadow of her husband Carl, and gets pregnant. She doubts her value as a wife, and is drawn to a couple of other less respectable men., which leads to a crisis. ...

Oslofilm: Ansikter (1969)

A film about faces, about expressions, about situations. The film is based on a poem by the Danish poet Poul Borum. The recordings are made in the Munch Museum in Oslo and based on the faces of Munch's pictures. ...

Filmavis (1969)

The reason for the film is the continuous stream of reminders that we get more and more often about cruelty practiced in all parts of the world. The film reveals a society completely confused in its deepest value choices. ...

Eberhard Weber: The Jubilee Concert (2016)

A concert in honor of Eberhard Weber's 75th birthday. Weber performs in this concert with big names like Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, and others. ...

Sounds and Silence - Travels with Manfred Eicher (2009)

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we are meeting musicians and composers, but also people and places whic ...

Jan Garbarek - Jazz in Marciac (2009)

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe (2006)

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independent of American jazz and the various changes of direction that have repeatedly occurred in European jazz in ...

Jan Garbarek - Live At The 37th Jazzwoche Burghausen (2006)

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning (1990)

Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of the most original avant-garde composers. This documentary shows Pärt as a deeply spiritual man whose work is bound up with his religious beliefs. Both he and his music defy classification, and he is determined to preserve ...