Mikkel Gaup – MRQE

Gavagai

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

German businessman Carsten Neuer travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some Norwegian poems by Tarjei Vesaas into Chinese, a project of his late wife. He hires Niko, a down-on-his-luck tour guide, to drive him to the poet’s home and places of inspiration to stimulate his own translation. On the road, the ghost of Carsten’s wife appears to him, while Niko struggles with the sudden consequences of his girlfriend’s pregnancy. On this journey, two very different men come to realize the transforming power of love, the limits of language, and the human need for friendship.

Inside/Out

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: a guard, an Episcopalian priest, and a church organist. Minimalizing dialogue and plot intricacy, Tregenza concedes only kernels of information, demanding that the viewer breathe dimensionality into his archetypes. Acting out primal instincts of lust, envy, fear, and love, subjects teeter vulnerably on the brink of sanity and insanity, freedom and repression in their attempts to navigate their existence.

Smiley

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A modern take on old Sámi legends about the battle between man and evil.

Kautokeino-opprøret

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

Ofelas

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000