Elling
After two years at Brøynes Psychiatric Clinic, Elling is set to return to an apparantly normal everyday life. Along with his somewhat more challenged roommate Kjell Bjarne, he has been given a welfare apartment in Majorstua in Oslo, and is expected to take care of himself. For someone who finds crossing a restaurant floor comparable to crossing Antarctica, this new life is fraught with obstacles that need to be surmounted. (Festival information)
The Norwegian film “Elling” captivates the audience by means of its straightforward and deeply humorous story that shows in the example of two fundamentally different protagonists the fears, needs and possibilities of human existence. The former psychiatric patients Elling and Kjell Bjarne gain self-confidence and thus a greater feeling of self-value by coping with the world as we know it. In this way the director Petter Næss points to the fundamentals of human life and allows hope to arise.