Wave, The

The Wave depicts events that every Norwegian fears may one day happen: the country’s largest unstable mountainside plummets tons of rock and earth into the fjord below. Its path of destruction causes a nearly 300-foot-high wave that gives the people of the small town of Geiranger mere minutes to leave their homes and reach higher ground. Nestled in Norway’s Summore region, Geiranger is one of the most spectacular tourist draws on the planet. With the mountain Akerneset overlooking the village—and constantly threatening to collapse into the fjord—it is also a place where cataclysm could strike at any moment. After putting in several years at Geiranger’s warning center, geologist Kristian Eikfjord (Joner) is moving on to a prestigious gig with an oil company. Kristian senses something isn’t right. The substrata are shifting. No one wants to believe that this could be the big one, especially with tourist season at its peak, but when that mountain begins to crumble, everyone in Geiranger has 10 minutes to get to high ground before a tsunami hits, consuming everything in its path. (Gary Reber)