Det 6. århundrede. Kong Hrodgar sidder på tronen i det danske kongedømme, men hans kongerige plages af det forfærdelige monster Grendel. Kongen får derfor fat i krigeren Beowulf, som befrier landet og opnår status som folkehelt. Men Beowulf har indgået en aftale med Grendels vanvittigt smukke, men farlige moder - og det får afgørende betydning fro hans skæbne.
Dybt inde i Laplands vildmark leder Aatami Korpi efter guld, men efter at han støder på nazistisk patrulje, begynder en betagende og guldhungrende jagt gennem den ødelagte og minelagte Lapland-ørken.
Den 17-årige pige Thale er netop flyttet fra Oslo til den lille by Nybo. De flyttede, da Thales far døde, og hendes mor (sammen med en sød ny mand og hendes yngre søster) fik et nyt job hos det lokale politi. Kort efter ankomsten deltager Thale i en fest i skoven nær en sø. Under festen bliver en kvindelig studerende brutalt dræbt. Thale ser, hvordan pigen bliver trukket ind i skoven af noget, hun ikke helt kan identificere. Et dyr af en slags, måske en ulv?!
A young boy must discover the origins of his extraordinary powers before he is captured by authorities hell-bent on condemning him for an accidental murder.
Den islandske filminstruktør Sturla Gunnarsson har med økonomisk hjælp fra producenter i sit hjemland såvel som i England og Canada skabt denne eventyrfilm over et gammelkendt sagn. Skuespillerne er primært nordiske, med bl.a. Stellan Skärsgård som den danske kong Hrothgar, der sender krigeren Beowulf ud for at gøre det af med uhyret Grendel. En heroisk aktion, jovist, men helten opdager, at der er noget ved uhyret, som han ikke vidste.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains.
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.
Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film tells the journey of a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb. The three bodies bound by their keratin, regain connection in a wombic journey which spiritually networks the three into a fused collective body.
Because she is being blamed by her father, the young Viking Freydis feels responsible for her mother’s death and develops a profound psychosis. She then embarks on a journey to Hel, the goddess of the dead, in order to revive her mother, and thus finally manages to free herself from her father’s blame.
A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend.
Loki's Daughter is the story about Loki and how he brought dark magic to the humans to challenge gods and create chaos.
The short film Ragnarok takes on the story of Liv and Livtrase, the last two humans that survives Ragnarok, the end of the world in Norse mythology. Why they survive and the sacrifices made.