@Mon-Star said:

This is called Trolljegeren (2010) in Norway and Trollhunter or Troll Hunter in the USA. It is a found footage film with the typical documentary style and shaky camera work. Its dry Norwegian humor is apparently because cast members are Norwegian comedians. But they play the whole film straight. The trolls are cool to look at, (but nobody is supposed to know that they exist). I wished they showed them more. They should have made a sequel or series of sequels. It was in Norwegian with English subtitles; very easy to follow.

Kanopy listed this as ending its availability after Nov 2021. Kanopy and Hoopla both offer free streaming through public libraries. Check to see if your library has online access. Each library system has its own limit on how many films you can see in a month. (One had 3 and another has 10 per month.) Some libraries have cancelled these services, due to the cost they incur.

I have access to both Kanopy & Hoopla (streaming & online) & both have a limit of 10 a month. Although I don't get the limits for digital, it's not like a physical copy where you are keeping it from someone, it's in a database somewhere so we aren't really keeping someone else from seeing it? I see that it's (Troll Hunter) supposed to be available on both but I could only find it on Kanopy. Hoopla comes back with a 'can't find this' message. I even tried searching for the director's name, still nothing.

Maybe Hoopla lists it as one word, TrollHunter? Kanopy now has a section on their main page, "Leaving This Month". That's what prompted me to watch it, before it disappeared. This film was a hoot!

What I've read is that the libraries are charged for each Kanopy rental of a title, as if for royalties. It might be up to four dollars each. The New York City public library dropped Kanopy because of the cost. The library where I first got access also dropped it after a year, for the same reason. During the pandemic, a lot of people, including those out of state, used Kanopy, while the library revenues plunged.

@Mon-Star said:

Maybe Hoopla lists it as one word, TrollHunter? Kanopy now has a section on their main page, "Leaving This Month". That's what prompted me to watch it, before it disappeared. This film was a hoot!

What I've read is that the libraries are charged for each Kanopy rental of a title, as if for royalties. It might be up to four dollars each. The New York City public library dropped Kanopy because of the cost. The library where I first got access also dropped it after a year, for the same reason. During the pandemic, a lot of people, including those out of state, used Kanopy, while the library revenues plunged.

Well even if they classify it as one word, they should still have the director listed? My local library's database sucks most of the time. I don't understand why because they use the same database as most other large libraries (for customer usage). I will tell them about a problem that I'm having searching for something but the librarians themselves use a whole other system, so they can't duplicate the problem? Doesn't make sense to me.

I'm pretty sure that my library has no Search feature for Kanopy. (It has a weak search for physical DVDs in the library system that you can check out.) I log into Kanopy (with that library as the source) and Kanopy provides all the listings and Search. I assume that Hoopla works the same way, My library also has Hoopla, but I have not set it up.