Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

Martin and Louise are on a road trip towards a remote island after Louise’s mother’s death. Here, Louise will be taken care of by a different family member than Martin.

A young nurse is kidnapped by a psychotic man with an absurd and desperate wish.

A movie about the neo-nazi street violence in Århus, and the consequences thereof.

Documentary about anti-fascist mobilization against an annual nazi march near Stockholm, Sweden.

At a club, Thor and Sigurd find love on the dance floor. However, the idyll is broken when they are on their way to a drag show and another couple starts laughing. It leads to a heated confrontation. The episode makes Sigurd angry, as he prefers to deal with challenges in a more empathetic way than Thor. The disagreements continue as Thor gets a little too excited in the stands during Sigurd's performance at the drag show. The question is whether the couple can help find themselves and each other.

In 2020, thousands of Danes will be infected with coronavirus originating from mink farms. Some will become seriously ill, and others may die. Did mink farmers follow the authorities' recommendations? Did the authorities' testing strategy work as intended?

Experimental animation

Αn uplifting story that follows 12-year-old Leeza, who dreams of becoming a football player to see the world and win a scholarship. But there's just one problem: She’s not very good at it! Undeterred, Leeza turns to her younger sister, Leena for help. Together, they train hard in the steep rocky hills of northern Pakistan, hoping to improve Leeza's skills and make her dream a reality. A documentary celebrating sisterhood, determination, and the power of hard work.

A depiction of the Greenlanders' everyday life and problems in Copenhagen.

Divorced lawyer Ursula Madsen's past returns to haunt her when her childhood sweetheart is found unconscious after a suspicious fall at his manor.

A movie about monomania from 1914.

Ciano think he is the best among reality stars, and he will show them. Today he visits Nicole, and he will also tell it to her in his own knife-sharp way.

A young woman on the run encounters a man who seems willing to help.

POKE begins with an assault at a tram stop. We meet the young couple Lukas and Julie through their wild night out. In a story that jumps back and forth in time, it gradually becomes clear who has been attacked and why.

Marcus Bloomer, a district attorney, receives a divine revelation the night before he is to sentence a young man to death. The herald of the revelation takes the form of Bloomer’s former sweetheart Reine, who shows him the greatest mistake of his life: twenty years ago, Bloomer chose his career over Reine, who birthed a fatherless child. In a cruel twist of fate, the child that Bloomer abandoned turns out to be the very same young man he must now sentence to death. (Stumfilm.dk)

At first glance, Brett Allen Smith’s memory worlds seem slightly otherworldly but peaceful. There is a little pug – curious, bouncy and, most importantly, alive, a harmless explorer of lawns and living rooms. At the same time, the director is driven by an inner fracture, an irritation to be illuminated by means of phone conversations with family members: How real are the memories that had such a tremendous impact on him? Like the hill towering in front of Smith’s inner eye under which two dogs lie buried. And there are sunflowers, imposing plants that are impossible to pick for his five-year old’s hands because their roots have bored so deeply into the soil.

A cartoon film about a little boy who decides to see the world. He leaves home in search of the characters in his favourite books: the Lion, Phantomas, Tom Thumb and others. (DFI)

“Why hasn't anyone said anything?” is a show about gut instinct, identity loss and recovery, and the hope of being allowed to dream again - literally. It will be contemporary, personal and hilarious.

Mogens Zieler's attempt to convey the dynamic element in the graphics through the musical and rhythmic time course of a cartoon. (DFI)

A "Jeff Bezos" is an ambitious capitalist and businessman. Our Jeff Bezos manages a local bakery and does everything in his power to satisfy his customers. EVERYTHING.

A cartoon that should appeal to the audience to remember to buy Christmas stamps. The film, drawn and directed by Ib Steinaa, has as a common theme happy and playful children. As it is a fact that fewer and fewer people write actual Christmas cards, the film shows that there are other ways to use the Christmas stamp, and you get the opportunity to revisit many of previous years' Christmas stamps.

Explores subtle modes of refusal through the lens of a Black queer swimmer in a hostile environment.

Experimental 16 mm black/white film from Chicago from 1950 by Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen (1920-2013).

A film poem about the Danish flag, the Dannebrog, and where to look for it. (DFI)

A young star choreographer and his mentor isolate a group of specially selected dancers on a remote estate. Together they will choreograph a new work about a sacrificial ritual.

In the company of his girlfriend a sound engineer records sounds during a beach trip that reach the depths of his conscience.

A strikingly colourful, surrealistic, animated film, inspired by the work of female Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. A tragicomical story of a little boy who dies and goes to heaven, only to be seduced by an operatic angel who takes him to hell.

A witty and intelligent meta-film in which the Danish-Turkish artist uses a performative re-enactment of the filming of one of his earlier films to illuminate the artistic process from new angles.

In this surreal realm, the spinning of the “thread of life” has evolved into a strange therapeutic spinning circle where the personal and bodily connections between the characters become the very machine that spins the thread. Rather than perceiving destiny as a large unfathomable matter, the characters connect it to the bodily experience of labor, birth, genetic inheritance and the spinning itself as a structure that provides the opportunity for change and transformation over time.

Two naked women interact – they hug, they fight, they kiss.

A believer and a non-believer are brought in doubt about their faith, when they stand face to face with death itself.