Songs of Earth

Margreth Olin’s personal film SONGS OF EARTH explores life, death and nature on a trek with her father through the wild Norwegian nature over four seasons. What follows is an existential journey that grandly depicts our place in nature.

Songs of Earth is a grand experience, and Olin uses her new documentary to depict the nature in her homeland in a way we rarely see and simultaneously manages to be very personal. Here sound and images embrace the viewer, making it an audiovisual poem that must be viewed on the big screen. The relationship between her parents, and her relationship to her parents, is shown constantly in contrast with the beautiful Norwegian nature; An unforgettable existential journey produced by the master Wim Wenders.

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Director

Margreth Olin (b. 1970) is one of Norway’s most talented documentary filmmakers. She is from Stranda in Sunnmøre, Norway, and has a degree in Media Studies from the University of Bergen, and a journalism and documentary degree from Høgskulen i Volda. Olin has directed several documentaries, among them The House of Angels (1998), My Body (2003), Raw Youth (2004), Nowhere Home (2012), Childhood (2017) og The Self Portrait (2020). She made her fiction film debut with The Angel in 2009. Songs of Earth is her latest film.