Biography
Roar Uthaug is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from The Norwegian Filmschool in 2002.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Troll 2
2025
Director, Characters, Story
Nora, Andreas and Captain Kris leap back into action when a dangerous new troll awakes — and this time they'll need more help to take it down.
Binary Desires
2024
Director
The AI short film Binary Desires was created in 48 hours by Roar Uthaug, Vanessa Tesorone, and Jonas Aarø as part of the Cinema Synthetica Norway work...
Turdspotting
2024
Director
If you thought the bathroom in Trainspotting was bad...
Troll
2022
Story, Executive Producer, Director
When an explosion in the Norwegian mountains awakens an ancient troll, officials appoint a fearless paleontologist to stop it from wreaking deadly hav...
Tomb Raider
2018
Director
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where ...
The Wave
2015
Director, Story
Although theorised, no one is really ready when a mountain pass above the scenic and narrow Geiranger fjord in Norway collapses and creates a tsunami ...
Ragnarok
2013
Producer, Script Consultant
Archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen discovers that the Oseberg ship hides a secret from the Viking Age. Along with his two children put Sigurd out on a ques...
Escape
2012
Director, Story
Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted moun...
Jackpot
2011
Second Unit Director
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's...
Magic Silver
2009
Director
Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition betwee...
Cold Prey II
2008
Story, Associate Producer
After surviving the events in the Jotunheimen mountains in which four of her friends were murdered, the badly injured Jannicke is brought to the local...
Cold Prey
2006
Director, Story, Co-Writer
When one of them breaks a leg, five friends snowboarding in the Norwegian mountains take shelter in an abandoned ski lodge and soon realize they’re no...
The Martin Administration
2002
Director
Martin is going on a blinddate and in his internal government the ministers are preparing for a routine State visit. But then Nora is revealed and tac...
A Fistful of Kebab
1998
Director
A dusty kebab dive. Twelve heavily armed men. A stranger without a name. An extra strong kebab.... Norway's first kebab western.
DX13036
1996
Director, Writer
Jonny and Pilla accidentally drives down a girl. What should they do next....?
An Evening in Green
1994
Writer, Director
A young man reckons with the world's most contrary and evil lawnmower.
Snot
1993
as Raymond
One day Otto makes a major fatal error when he is to clean in the laboratory.
Snot
1993
Writer, Sound, Director
One day Otto makes a major fatal error when he is to clean in the laboratory.