NORWAY For the past four years, I have returned again and again to the Arctic fjords of Northern Norway to document orcas and humpback whales.
From summer days in Lofoten to the winter herring migration around Skjervøy and Kvænangen Fjord, this film follows the moments we were lucky enough to witness above the surface and underwater — whales feeding, playing, mating, and moving through one of the most dramatic coastlines in the Arctic.
Wild Tales of Norway is a short cinematic wildlife film about orcas, humpback whales, rough seas, fading light, raw landscapes, and the quiet moment these animals appear out of the dark northern ocean.
A film by Natascha Klein. Produced by Daniel Ernst & Natascha Klein.
Filmed on Canon R5 and R5 Mark II, with RF 15-35mm f2.8, RF 24-105mm f2.8, RF 24-70mm f2.8, RF 70-200 f2.8, RF 100-500mm + 1.4x TC, DJI Air 3 🎧 Hydrophone audio from Steve Truluck ⛵ Filmed aboard Nunatak, a local sailing boat run by friends
There are places in the world where the ocean still feels ancient.
Out here, between mountains and sea, where the wind decides your direction
and time begins to slow down. But what I found was something much deeper.
The silence before they appear and then...
movement, power, grace, presence. Orcas don't just pass through the water.
They change the space around them, as if they belong to another world
and yet remind us of our own. We call them predators, but that word says very little.
They are mothers, families, teachers, travelers.
They carry knowledge through generations. They speak in voices we are only beginning to
understand. The more time I spend with them, the more I understand what wildlife truly means.
When winter arrives, everything changes. The light fades, the fjords grow quiet,
and still they come. Following the herring into the deep cold water,
returning to a place older than memory. Beneath the surface there is no noise.
Echoes, eyes that notice you, bodies built for freedom, a language of clicks, waves and silence.
You don't need to touch the ocean to be changed by it, but oceans are changing faster than they should.
Noise, pollution, emptying seas, choices made far away that still reach this place.
If these animals have taught me anything, it is this.
Wonder creates connection, connection creates care, and care can create change.
Maybe not everyone will meet an orca, but everyone can help to protect what they need to survive.
The ocean does not belong to us. We belong with it.
