Yngve Sæther

Production

Yngve Sæther

Known for

Production

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Sex poster
6.5

Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality and identity. One has a same-sex encounter without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity. The other finds himself in dreams where he is seen as a woman.

Sex

2024

Dreams poster
6.9

Johanne falls in love with her teacher and records her fantasies and feelings in writing. Together with her mother and grandmother, they debate the literary potential and whether to publish it.

Dreams

2024

Oslo, August 31st poster
7.5

A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.

Oslo, August 31st

2011

Love poster
6.8

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

Love

2024

Ninjababy poster
7.1

When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since abortion is no longer an option, adoption is the only answer. That's when Ninjababy, an animated character who makes Rakel's life a living hell, turns up.

Ninjababy

2021

Punx poster
NR

A documentary following Norwegian punk, new wave, post punk and hardcore music from 1977 to 2015.

Punx

2015

The Man Who Loved Yngve poster
6.5

It’s November 1989 and the world is changing. So is Jarle, who attends Kongsgård High School in Stavanger. He plays the guitar/lead singer in a local punk band, has a great girlfriend, and has the coolest best friend. But it's all about to change when Yngve enters the classroom.

The Man Who Loved Yngve

2008

a-ha: The Movie poster
6.9

When "Take On Me" reached nr 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985, the dream came true. Or did it? The band was not prepared for what the success could bring, including tension between the three band members.

a-ha: The Movie

2021

All the Beauty poster
2.5

Sarah (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) and David (Magnus Crepper) meet for the first time in ten years when she arrives at his summer residence. David needs help finishing a play, which turns out to be a dramatization of their long, troublesome relationship. The film presents three love stories about seemingly different couples; all named Sarah and David, but played by different actors in respectively their 20s, 30s and 40s.

All the Beauty

2016

Women in Oversized Men's Shirts poster
4.6

The dorkiest thing in the world, according to feminist poet Sigrid, is the movie cliche of the young woman who in the morning dons her male lover's shirt, looking adorably "indie cute". But when she begins a relationship with Kåre Tryvle, she has difficulties living up to her ideals. Meanwhile, pregnant performance artist Trine is planning to give birth in a cage, dressed up as Marie Antoinette, on camera, and factory worker Astrid is looking for the son she had adopted away.

Women in Oversized Men's Shirts

2015

No artwork available
NR

A very sensible woman must reconsider her perceptions of what is real and what is not when she’s confronted with a house that is obviously haunted. Part of the duology Light and Shadows.

Shadows

—

Beware of Children poster
7.3

During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician.

Beware of Children

2019

I'm the One You Want poster
6.8

What would you say about a female teacher falling in love with a 15-year-old? What would you think when you heard her confession? How do you set borders for someone's love and feelings?

I'm the One You Want

2014

The Orheim Company poster
6.3

A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.

The Orheim Company

2012

Kiss Me You Fucking Moron poster
6.1

Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.

Kiss Me You Fucking Moron

2013

No artwork available
NR

A journalist who has just turned fifty helplessly falls in love with a much younger male musician and refuses to realize that he is way too old for that kind of adventure. Part of the duology Light and Shadows.

Light

—

Most People Live in China poster
5.9

A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.

Most People Live in China

2002

Brightly Shining poster
6.4

Christmas is approaching, and when their father loses his job as a Christmas tree seller, Ronja and Melissa take over the responsibility. While their father drowns his sorrows in the Stargate pub, the two girls are forced to fend for themselves and dream of a different reality. It is a film about a father who does his best, but is not enough; about an older sister who has far too big shoes to fill; and about a little sister who never stops hoping.

Brightly Shining

2025

Listen Up! poster
7.2

Finally summer vacation. Teenager Mahmoud wants a relaxing summer when Uncle Ji comes to visit from Pakistan. He has to be responsible for being his Oslo guide, and little brother Ali has a secret that turns his whole life upside down.

Listen Up!

2023

What You Do poster
NR

What You Do – A practical guide. This book shows you how to use your model A1. Using one hundred and twenty three illustrations, it shows how even the hopeless can make a film.

What You Do

2007

No artwork available
NR

Arnold Selnes is 80 years old and sells used bicycles in Oslo, but denies that he has a bike shop.

Livet og andre oppfinnelser

2003

No artwork available
NR

21-year-old film student Kim Hiorthøy wonders if it is possible to live in the moment, and if the way to find out is to make a kind of verity movie about it - as if he was in Paris in the 60s and not in New York in 1994.

Nervous

1997

No artwork available
NR

Psychological drama with a tragic love story underlining.

The Indian Bride

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I Travel Alone poster
6.1

Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagotchis, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come visiting next week - enters his life like a nuclear bomb. Jarle Klepp has to become an adult.

I Travel Alone

2011

Armbryterskan från Ensamheten poster
6.1

The tiny village in the far north of Sweden called Ensamheten (Solitude) has sixteen inhabitants. They all share an unusual passion - armwrestling.

Armbryterskan från Ensamheten

2004

Alt for Egil poster
6.6

A pizza delivery boy must balance the needs of his sick mother, his mentally retarded friend, and the comatose girl of his dreams.

Alt for Egil

2004

Light from the Chocolate Factory poster
7.2

Ingrid tries, together with several acquaintances, to compose a song for the wedding of a mutual friend. However, she's more occupied with her mother's death that she may have contributed to.

Light from the Chocolate Factory

2020

Apple poster
5.5

A young woman invites her literature teacher to a discussion on a story about a man who wants to freeze the moment. She suggests that he is writing to disguise his own inner desires. They fall in love, and life takes an unexpected turn.

Apple

2018

Plassmangel poster
6.4

A relatively small hospital experiences a veritable gridlock in one narrow hallway with beds, patients, doctors and nurses all finding their movements unduly restricted. This necessitates an extreme measure imposed by one creative doctor in order to free the flow of traffic: much to the chagrin of one patient, whose bell can no longer be heard by those responsible for his care.

Plassmangel

2003