After scoring with hit family franchises “The Christmas of Solan & Ludvig” and “Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder,” leading Scandinavian company Maipo is set to explore a cult Norwegian folktale with “The ...

It has become a semi-common practice for teenagers to take a gap year after graduating high school. Many take to traveling the world to gain insight, while others get a job right out of school to make ...

Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s new documentary follows a group of teenagers learning life lessons at a traditional Norwegian folk high school. Documentaries focused on the teen experience ...

Sundance: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady bring their brand of sensitive, smart verité filmmaking to a very special Norwegian high school. Consider the world made up of two kinds of people: those who see ...

Exclusive: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady head to Norway to follow three Gen Zers on an existential journey in the Sundance documentary opening July 25 from Magnolia Pictures. “Folktales” centers on ...

“I think to be a young woman is chaos. There is no other word for things,” notes Hege, a 19-year-old Norwegian who, like many others her age these days, seems to be searching for something she can’t ...

Many a Norwegian folktale begins with vivid descriptions of the country – beautiful, rolling hills, sheer cliffs rising into the sky, mountains with snowy peaks in the distance, rivers cutting strong ...