Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

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

A film by Stefan Kruse Jørgensen.

Everything is peaceful, until an unknown aggressor repeatedly breaks the living room window glass...

1943-1945. More and more Danes resist the occupying forces, and the policy of collaboration collapses.

LÊGER is a documentary about the history of Kurds in Central Anatolia.

Emil takes his friend Ask for a swim in the sea. On the trip, they talk about their friendship - and everything and nothing. When Ask starts flirting with him, Emil is unsure what to do.

When Carolina Falkholt does a mural painting at the 2022 Roskilde Festival, the festival management wants to stop her work. This meta-work, which is partially a documentation of Falkholt’s original creation, creates a discussion about art and censorship.

The camera and the center of attention turn 180 degrees when actress Laura Drasbæk suddenly confronts the film’s director with her own denial and shattered acting dreams.

Techno-paced blitz portrait of Dutch Lola and the great but impossible love she had to run away from if she wanted to continue living.

An improvised meditation on optical and sonic phenomena, beautifully shot on analog 16mm film.

Film screening and talk. Experience a coral’s response to rising water temperatures in a visual work that documents the tragic beauty of corals’ endangered existence. Shown in a loop followed by a talk between the artist and scientist Elena Bollati.

‚Vind’ is a still image film composed of photography by artist Frederik Worm and instrumental compositions by musician and composer CTM.

The soon-to-be 70-year-old, beloved singer-songwriter Lars Lilholt is still going strong and generously shares insights from the long road of his life.

A single-note score indicates the open and horizontal structure of Kamil Dossar’s abstract audiovisual arrangement of image, sound, objects and bodies.

Shortly after robbing a gas station along with his group of friends, our main character, David, gets caught by the police. Luckily for him, he gets off with only 90 hours of community service, which he serves at a local church.

An essay dressed in pink robes, examining society’s perception of women from the women’s own perspective.

Fourteen years ago, her husband died after a period of illness. The couple spent their last years at Bispebjerg Hospital. Today, Wivel returns to the same hospital to make an autobiographical and reflective film about life and death – and to portray the staff who work in this particular difficult field. What is it like to go to work every day to care for people whose lives are running out? What thoughts do you have? And how do you make the last chapter of another person’s life a good, vibrant time? Doctors and nurses share their thoughts on the philosophical, personal and practical dimensions of their work when we sit in on their meetings.

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.

Danish documentary from 1997. »The Jew and the Aryan« documents how the Nazis used film as a medium for propaganda to convince the German populace that the Aryans were a superior people, while the Jews were a deadly enemy that had to be eradicated from Germany. »The Jew and the Aryan« goes behind the scenes of Leni Riefenstahl's »Olympia« and »Triumph of the Will«, which show Hitler as a divine leader. Clips from anti-Semitic films such as »Jud Süss« and »Der Ewige Jude« are also shown, portraying the Jewish as money-grubbing, lecherous and parasitic beings. Based on the book by Morten Brask and Siri Aronson.

A grotesque, raw and vulnerable fusion of three bodies. Explores our intense urge for intimacy and touch and the relationship between our loving and destructive impulses.

Greenland is in the middle of a process of industrial development, a stark contrast to the former way of life. In the film, which was shot in Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), a group of Greenlandic women talk about their work and their position in the workplace, about the need to organize themselves, to stand shoulder to shoulder in order to improve working conditions and wages. The women, working as shrimp pillers, tell with bitterness, but also humor, about their lives and the double work that they have to endure. The 'royal' hand-picked Greenlandic prawns are viewed here in relation to the repeated abdominal infections the women suffer from, and their political struggle related to labor and gender.

Sengekantsfilm is a film series of eight Danish erotic pleasure games directed by John Hilbard.

In love with the ocean, a father and son reflect on what it means to represent South Africa on the world stage as a professional surfer.

In the borders between Bosnia and Croatia we meet fleeing families who bet everything in a game, where the only objective is to arrive in the hallowed lands of Europe.

A young Syrian woman doesn't share her parents' beliefs, but she's still been locked up inside their belief system all her life. Because she is a young woman, her parents almost never allow her to leave the house, let alone participate in activities against the Syrian regime. But she rebels anyway. She writes and sings protest songs in secret, in the hope that they will encourage others to start thinking for themselves, and to believe in a better tomorrow with more freedom. For 37 minutes, we watch and hear about what motivates this young woman. Neither she nor the people around her ever appear identifiable on-screen. Even the voices are manipulated to keep the chance of recognition to a minimum.

Johnni Gade unites YouTube, Freestyle Rap and stand up in a show like you've hardly seen it before. Johnni is known for grilling his YouTube colleagues on the hard blade and with the show Cook Wife is put in the oven for a roast that even Gordon Ramsey would be envious of.

'Bordered' is a sensually engaging reflection on what history is hidden behind the forest - and not least on where nature stops and man begins.

It's hard not to smile when Lasse shares videos on Instagram where he lovingly pokes fun at a bunch of everyday situations and stereotypes.

This Migrant Business shows the systems that exist that enable and exploit African migrants seeking better lives in the Middle East and Europe. The system creates a cyclic force that ensures that demand and supply will continue to feed into each other, indefinitely. This is a lucrative trade with vulnerable people as its currency.

‘Drengeblå / Sange fra i dag’ is a song cycle by Aske Zidore and Anders Lauge Meldgaard revolving around the theme of economy as a life form and language.

Gold Teeth And Certain Arms poses the question: Can the world’s most precise mechanical astronomical clock, as it breaks down, put us into contact with distant stars, beings and memories?

A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.

After years of substance abuse, Michael’s father returns to his life, but an old family trauma continues to haunt the Graversen family. A film with heart and courage about regaining the belief in life and each other.

Four prominent Danish scientists and an artist struggle in their own way to mitigate the man-made mass extinction and understand how humanity’s pursuit of wealth might lead to an ecological collapse.