Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

What happens when Adam and Eve have borrowed money for everything they own and have? Then they end up in the hamster wheel, like everyone else, who consumes beyond their means. Humorous fable about the blessings of the installment system - and its consequences. (DFI)

The Danish painter Oluf Høst (1884-1966) talks about his work, about Bornholm, and about himself.

Ever had the feeling where someone has gotten so close to you, yet at the same time seemed so far away? For these women and young girls, this is a moment that could change their lives forever. But will they act on their impulses, or let chance fade away? Through a diverse collection of short films, Upon Her Lips: Touch and Go beautifully explores the transformational power of a single touch in shaping our sense of self, sexuality and belonging.

12-year-old Vera doesn’t go to school, she goes to the garden. Here she grows her own vegetable garden, learning more about nature and why it makes her garden makes her so happy.

The photographer Hannes Pálsson made this documentary when he was travelling in south-west, north and east Iceland.

A portrait of female photographer and freelancer Nanna Kreutzmann, who struggles to find her inner peace after spending her life documenting disasters and conflicts.

A young boy’s understanding of his parents’ decision to sell their old family house will confront him with his family’s roots, and blur the border between past and present.

A scientist has invented a serum that transforms the old into young and the old into new. His first subject – a very old man – gets a single injection and gradually turns into a baby. Meanwhile, three little men have stolen the syringe with the rejuvenation treatment, which they now give to men and livestock in dire need of it. (stumfilm.dk)

When a wealthy landowner falls in love with circus artist Miranda, she leaves her circus boyfriend to marry him. Although a life of affluence is pleasant, after years of marriage, Miranda starts to get bored. So when her former flame from the circus knocks on the door, Miranda is tempted to change partners again. (stumfilm.dk)

The film is loosely based on Alexandre Dumas’ play about the celebrated actor Kean, who moves effortlessly through all walks of life in 1830s London. One evening he’s in the company of counts and princes, and the next he’s enjoying the company of poor artists at the city’s pubs. A series of infatuations drive him into a complicated love drama. (stumfilm.dk)

The video presents 111 segments of text, single words, and found visual material, still as well as moving images, arranged so as to offer a series of lessons. As an accompaniment to the visual component of the video a composition for piano has been added, emphasizing each constituent segment in a didactic manner.

Graffiti painter, prisoner and war photographer. American KC Ortiz has always chased the adrenaline, but now he has moved to Denmark and become a father, it’s time for another change.

Lars, Eino and Thomas are fighting for a better future for themselves and their friends in Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. A youth film about hope, dreams and the right to be yourself in turbulent times.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at methods of pig breeding in Denmark.

Dressed in his finest hunting gear and carrying a rifle over his shoulder, Oscar Stribolt leaves home to go hunting. On his way, he meets an old woman whose attempt at making contact he abruptly rejects. She takes revenge by casting a curse upon him. (stumfilm.dk)

Documentary shot on the Faroe Islands

Emil is supposed to scatter his late mother's ashes at his old childhood home in Sweden. His father has promised to help, but when Emil arrives, his father has disappeared. Instead, his half-sister Anna, whom he hasn't seen in years, shows up. Together, they try to find their father and a place to bury Emil's mother. The search puts their budding sibling love to the test.

When Laura breaks up with Sebastian, he tries to figure out what to do with his life. He wants to be a DJ, but the question is whether he has any talent at all. While Sebastian ponders life's big questions, he goes to croquis with his sister and hangs out with his pot-smoking friends, who don't seem to have any major concerns. It's tough being in your mid-twenties in Aarhus.

Cinderella has become single and for the first time in her life she has to stand on her own two feet. It is not easy when the year is 2018 and the gender debate is raging. She comes for an interview with the lonely job consultant Franciska, who has settled into a fortress of her own feminist views.

A young girl has to face her fears and break free from her mothers rules, when she falls in love with a guy, who has a very different view on life and death.

Perfection, excess and other bullshit words is my third one-man show. It took over three years to write and edit, and I hope it shines through when you're sitting at home on your couch watching it.

MINIYAMBA is the name of a mythical boa encircling a village where people could not leave. A woman managed to charm the animal by promising to return to tell him about the world. This story, in various forms, has become a griot song that everyone knows in western Africa.

A Group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.

Life is not the same after a holiday with Jesper and there is no avoiding the truth now.

Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.

Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.

A multicultural Copenhagen neighbourhood as seen through the eyes of the children who grow up there.

Asst. Director Tómas Gislason and Producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen reflects on their "faecal location" when they shot Lars von Trier's Europa (1991) in Poland.

"The Murder of Makrellen" - About the murder of Danish biker, Bullshit MCs President, Henning Norbert Knudsen, a.k.a. Makrillen, May 25 1984.

Last Exit Alexanderplatz is a film about the ongoing, but politically disputed and so far unsuccessful attempt to transform the former East-German Alexanderplatz into a high-end, Manhattan-like business district. Through interviews with the architects and politicians, who were involved in the competition held for the square in 1993, the film highlights the dogmatism and insensitivity that characterized much of planning in post-reunification Berlin. But it also depicts a square, which despite the failures and missed opportunities of the 1990s, seems to have regained its foothold in the city.

How will the naive freshly carved prince and his co-actors withstand their audience's insatiable appetite for entertainment?

A psychopath is loose in Denmark and nobody feels safe. With his dull kitchen knives the madman slaughters through the towns young women, and anybody standing in his way, but why? What drives the blood lust? And what unspeakable pleasures does torture and mutilation hold?

When 14 year old Nete's twin brother Noah is killed in an accident, her world collapses. Months later, her parents decide to move to Copenhagen to start anew. Nete, still deeply troubled by her brother's death, begins in a new school - but the day she starts, a new boy, Jonas, also arrives. To everyone else, he is just the new boy - but Nete is in deep shock at what she sees.

Includes: My First One Man Show Outstanding, The Bible, Speaking Gifts For Children, De Udvalgte, Comedy Aid 2009, 2010 and 2011 and Life In The Emergency Lane

A young girl reads an ad in the newspaper and enthusiastically shows it to a young man, who cares for her. She leaves on the train; the young man gives her a carrier pigeon. At the end of the journey, she meets with a lady, who takes her to her house. The girl is given an evening dress and taken to a salon filled with revellers. She fights off their advances and is locked in her room. Realizing that she has ended up in a brothel, she sends off the pigeon with a message. The young man gets the message and arrives at the brothel with the police. He takes the girl away with him, but after the police have left, the remaining revellers cheerfully continue their debaucheries.

Danish filmmaker is there with his camera when Kidd, an ordinary kid, changes from one day to the next into the sensation of the year with his catchy rap songs. Even the Prime Minister wants his autograph. Gripping documentary about rap, fame and riches - and their price.

Bloody Cartoons is a documentary about how and why 12 drawings in a Danish provincial paper could whirl a small country into a confrontation with Muslims all over the world. He asks whether respect for Islam combined with the heated response to the cartoons is now leading us towards self-censorship. How tolerant should we be, he wonders, of the intolerant. And what limits should there be, if any, to freedom of speech in a democracy.

Documentary about one of Europe's major music festivals, the Roskilde Festival.

A couple has agreed to help a friend arrange a move. But the friend has dropped out of the project, leaving the couple and their baby on an increasingly chaotic journey through an unnamed American city.

What happens when a female Polish capitalist meets two lazy Danish welfare recipients? On a job activation trip to Poland, Jens meets a Polish girl named Renata. One day, there is a knock on Jens' door in Copenhagen. Outside stands Renata with a large suitcase. She moves in, and the two begin a relationship. However, Renata quickly discovers that Jens does not do much other than fish, drink beer, and dream of his breakthrough—a safe and quiet life paid for by the state. But Renata has other plans.

How wrong can it go when you're madly in love with a girl?