Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

From his Bolivian mountain top, Asser works with humanitarian work with his girlfriend Ida. When he has free time, he runs 40 kilometers in Bolivia's mountainous desert to become Denmark's best marathon runner. But can one reconcile love for another human being with extreme efforts to become the best?

A man and his rocking bird

In this small film, prominent Danish artist, actor and cartoonist Storm P advertises CLOC Liqueur. An animated sequence also shows a man drinking coffee; he only starts smiling when the black gold is followed by a generous drop of liquor. (stumfilm.dk)

In a world where single use waste still overrules the world, one aluminum bottle steps in, determined to defeat all single waste and get rid of it once and for all.

Several different, but equally heartfelt and honest stories of queer people who share with the director thoughts about their gender identity, body, hormone therapy, relationships and freedom.

Another Kind of Knowledge is the result of a conversation that started in 2017 with the renowned Danish architect Dorte Mandrup, who for years has been an established figure in the Scandinavian architectural world, and is increasingly achieving prominence on an international level. In this portrait film, Mandrup herself unfolds the cornerstones of her practice—predicated on the synthesis of place, history, materiality, and sculptural—resulting in a consistent articulation of the contemporary. Her buildings always speak about a place. But who is Dorte Mandrup? What has shaped her approach to architecture? How does she go about her projects? While revealing something about Mandrup's inner and outer landscapes, Another Kind of Knowledge is a fascinating story about the essence and conditions of architecture today.

A couple go for swinger party.

'Live From The Pool' was filmed at the swimming pool of the abandoned Auderød military camp in North Zealand near Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by world-famous architect Henning Larsen this defunct swimming pool building has become part of the nature park Auderød. A place where nature encounters the mysteries of a once existing military base, ready to be explored.

Transformation of exclusive photographic material into a symphony of light and sound.

Dresden is famous for its attempt to meticulously reconstruct its once bombed-out historical center and bring the colorful baroque settings of the 18th century back to life. It’s infamous for the right-wing-surge that has since 2015 swept the city and made it a center of far-right activity in Germany and Europe. This film is an exploration of where the two intersect.

A cute little frog lands right in the middle of another frog family’s dinner. At first, the family is charmed by the adorable newcomer, but soon he begins to turn their lives upside-down. How can a frog so little be so badly behaved?

The corona year 2020 has been examined from all angles by the media. But what was it like to hold Ramadan in a year of restrictions, prohibitions and social distancing? Six young Muslims express their thoughts and feelings about a different kind of year when communal meals and prayer lines were replaced by a quarantine that pulls the individual relationship with God into focus. What can poetry and the quarantine of the heart teach us about a deeper meaning at a time when illness and fear are so predominant? And what kind of spirituality do we dare imagine in a society that moves further and further away from believing in God?

Authority, autonomy and one’s own complicity are elements in the transgressive situations that the artist Christian Falsnaes establishes in ‘Look at Me’, where he, in collaboration with the actress Minni Katrina Mertens, directs different groups of people at a night club, a gallery and an open-air festival. The boundary between subject and object – and between spectator and participant – is fleeting until you are finally invited on stage yourself. Throughout the entire proceedings, however, there is only one director. When Falsnaes and Mertens take turns to give both the others and each other instructions, it happens in an interplay where dominance and submission are the constants. ‘Look at Me’ embodies the kinds of soft and hard authority that we more or less consciously are subjected to everywhere in modern Western society, and it is made as both a documentary and a video work in its own right.

Cut It Out is a psychological drama following Tara as she is being guided to defuse a bomb in a school, which leads her into a surrealistic situation she has to escape from.

Alex Thelander has sent dick pics to random women and watched a lot of porn. Now he wants to put an end to the abuse - and say sorry to the women.

Father gives his son a helping hand in the shower.

A portrait of Astika, who lives on an island in Denmark. He has lived in a run down farm house for 15 years and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more pristine neighbours.

On the windswept planes of the Burren, fifty-something bachelor Jimmy McEvoy spends his days constructing dry stone walls and waiting for a call from the matchmaker, as he muses on life and love.

Stand-up about tackling the outside world with uneducational pedagogy. Steen is a trained educator, but the inner street boy also has a say when Molzen tackles the world around him using examples that everyone can recognize and learn from if you're ready to take the consequences. For example: How to get other drivers to keep their distance on the highway, how to teach your son to think before he posts on Facebook by being a bigger idiot than he is, and how to teach your wife not to sort out the black licorice in Matadormix when your children are not allowed to pick onions out of the meat sauce.

A young woman wants to take her own life, but is stopped by a little boy who asks, "What are you doing?"

When the citizens of Lviv discover a mysterious hermit in the forest, Esther must protect her only friend from a witch hunt.

Two men meet by incident on a ferry, and they happen to continue the journey to Copenhagen by the same car in the night. In an intense and silent struggle for power, the driving turns out hazardously and with an ending open for interpretation.

Have you ever been angry with a friend? Then imagine if you became more than just angry. The Secret is about a group of teenagers who suddenly lose a friend, apparently because he has committed suicide. But some of the friends become suspicious, and this leads them to a dark secret.

Lonely Nikolaj is invited out on the town, and after a disappointing party, he meets Maria. Maria is simply amazing. The next day, he wakes up next to her, but she has suddenly disappeared. He must therefore struggle to keep track of what is reality and what is fantasy.

Cecilie is a quiet, introverted girl. She spends most of her time with her best friend, the porcelain doll Dukkelise. At school, she is bullied by the new girl in class, Louise, but one day Cecilie has had enough. Together with Dukkelise, she decides to take revenge.

Alma has left Copenhagen and abandoned her big dream of becoming a musician. But when she meets her former bandmate Anders in Aarhus, she is confronted with her fear of playing music and begins to open up.

Mads goes hunting for the first time with his conservative father, Jørgen. There he meets Mikkel, a slightly older and more experienced hunter, and they quickly hit it off. When Jørgen discovers their blossoming relationship, the evening suddenly becomes very uncomfortable.

Prosecutor Malene is kidnapped by Mads when she finds his brother guilty.

Danish documentary from 2007 about Ann and Am, two Thai women who were cheated to Europe with promises of well-paid jobs, but forced to work as prostitutes. For several years they lived as slaves in a basement. Here you can follow the women back to the basement and it will be a psychologically difficult journey where they re-live many of their traumatic memories.

The sea is the epitome of freedom for the Palestinians. But due to the restrictions on their freedom of movement, a majority of Palestinians have for decades been denied access to the coast. In a simple but original and meaningful way, Martin Johannsen lets his protagonists recount their memories and ideas of the sea with their eyes closed, as if they had fallen into a trance-like dream. The sea becomes a mirror for reflection, where they talk about their relationship to water through living imagery. Some have never forgotten their only encounter with the sea, while others can only fantasise about what it looks like in reality.