Discoveries of a Marionette (2009)

There has always been a distance between Bjarte and his grandfather, the great patriarch Alf Morner. This is about to change when Alf gives his grandson the strangest gift: a chest full of 8 mm films. In these films Bjarte finds the secret stories of Alf's adventurous past. Bjarte believes he has been given a treasure! However the gift has strings attached and soon Bjarte must embark on a voyage of his own. The gift is not a treasure chest, it's a map. Discoveries of a Marionette is a poetic and special award-winning documentary inviting to a melancholic, humorous and unforeseen expedition through life and death, over the sea and into eternity. Nothing less.