The first movie featured in the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre’s International Film Series was a Norwegian comedic thriller “In Order of Disappearance” on Tuesday evening.

This movie thriller follows the life of the main character Nils, a snowplow driver seeking revenge for his wrongly murdered son. Authorities claim that his son’s death is due to a drug overdose, but Nils disagrees and seeks to find the truth.

While searching for his son’s murderer, Nils accidently begins a turf war between Serbian and  Norwegian drug gangs. Very few characters stay alive through the entire course of the film. Every victim’s name is ticked off on the screen so that viewers know the order of disappearance, according to a Variety Berlin film review.

The Operations Director of Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Jamie Hill, explained that they chose this international film because of its unique storyline.

“I think it’s really important that people have the ability to expand their movie watching, to be able to watch something that’s from a different culture, maybe that is something that they aren’t necessarily used to,” Hill said. “It’s not the traditional American story.”

Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre hopes to bring light to this particular international movie to recognize the great films that can come out of other countries besides the U.S., Hill said.

“The reason we have done the international film series is because it’s one of the things that many of our patrons are asking for,” Hill said.

The series aims to give patrons an opportunity to see multiple international films that Americans may not have access to in a normal theater showing. Although some international films receive Oscar award nominations, they are not always shown in regular theaters. The purpose of the international film series is to bring attention to the often-ignored international films, Hill said.

“This film was recommended by some people who spent a lot of time going to different foreign film festivals and has received a lot of attention on the national scene for being an exceptional international film in the last year,” Hill said. “It was something we had a couple requests for and then combined with the information we had from the other individuals.”

“I also think it’s really exciting to be able to see what other countries produce when it comes to film because it’s often so different from what we think of when we first think of creating a movie,” Hill said.

The next film the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre will include in its International Film Series will be Swedish “Man Called Ove,” screening at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21.