Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

Captain Awesome is about to save the day once again, when an upset stomach threatens to ruin it all. A story of a superhero’s race against time to save his image or humanity before it all goes down the drain!

Old Skipper Bims takes his daughter on a sailing trip and bitterly regrets it. Else falls head over heels for Helmsman Kik and Bims can’t stand that kind of romance! After the skipper has been hypnotised on land, he gets the idea that he might have hypnotic abilities himself, which could be used to separate Kik and his own daughter. The plan is put into action, but Bims has more regrets coming! It turns out that his newly discovered superpowers are even stronger than he himself had dared to hope. (Stumfilm.dk)

Silent film

Recorded live at Vega, Copenhagen, November 2nd & 3rd 2004. The intended release-date was 7th June 2005, hence 07.06.05 on the cover, but due to technical problems it was delayed.

You could be forgiven for mistaking Charlie Siem for James Bond. Whether he's driving an orange Porsche to his cliff-top Monaco mansion, ordering martinis or looking suave in a designer suit, he is a man on a mission. It isn't to hunt down SPECTRE, but to find perfection in everything he does. Whether it's performing on stage, recording albums, or selecting a suit, Charlie demands the best, of himself and others. Despite an entourage dubbed ‘Charlie's Angels', he's lonesome, and complains that people can't relate to him. Danish filmmaker Eva Mulvad, with patience and panache, delves into this life of privilege to find commonalities of ambition and desire.

The relationship and identity of a young lesbian girl is thrown into storm as she sees her girlfriend kissing a boy.

A Syrian radio DJ documents the experiences of herself and her friends as their dreams of overthrowing their elected government give way to the grim realities of sectarian death squads and extremism.

Christian Fuhlendorff follow up on critical acclaim with the new one man show: "To make a short story long" "I have a dog and a house, a girlfriend and a daughter. I live even in the world's happiest country, Denmark! I have all the pieces to be for. I just do not know if I'm happy. For a house also means also debt and concerns that a dog does chores and to take the piss on the floor, a girlfriend means expectations and compromises, a daughter means responsibilities - and sometimes to take the piss on the floor, AND we must not forget that Denmark thus also one of the countries with the highest suicide rate. Let me put it another way: Do I be happy? " The question put Christian Fuhlendorff himself in his third one-man show "To make a short story long," which premiered at Bremen Theatre in Copenhagen 19 September 2014. In its previous shows, he took the audience on a journey into in his quirky and comedic universe. This time is no exception.

What kind of presence is made possible by the cinematic encounter? With the camera as an intermediary, an artist punches a hole in the wall that separates her responsibilities as a filmmaker from her role as a daughter.

A young couple, Mads and Theresa, spend the night in a shelter deep in the forest. Mads is deeply in love and plans to propose to Theresa, which is why he has taken her on an overnight trip to the forest. But things don't go as he had expected.

After a secret mission to the moon, an American space shuttle lands in Øresund, the strait between Denmark and Sweden.

As a pirate enters the Kingdom of the Dead he encounters its beautiful Queen. She captures his heart, but hers is not so easily won.

Katja aged 16 and Cathrine aged 8 both have a unique relationship to music, to nature and to sensation in general. Katja and Cathrine are blind, but the girls have developed their other senses and use them much more keenly than most people around them. The director, Erlend E. Mo, depicts the two girls; interpreting their sense-based, subjective experience of the world, which is as rich as a world observed by a seeing person, just different. The film represents the intimacy and intensity of the girls' environment in few words, and in doing so allows the viewer to partake in a poetic subjective experience and perceive an old world afresh.

In the wake of an interstellar conflict, two brothers are separated. In a race against time the older brother, Javon, must confront great powers beyond his own world, in order to find his brother again.

Michelin-starred chef Noah makes artful food that tastes bad. Using some blue truffles, he opens the Noah's Ark restaurant. All guests take pictures of the food, and chaos erupts at the main course.

Tobias Rahim is a busy man, but when his best friend calls to calm his fear of death, the musician naturally takes the time to help. The conversation quickly develops into a talk about life and the afterlife.

Two lively and famous Petersens, namely Robert Storm and Hans W., play prominent roles in this little comedy about a morally vigilant pharmacist, his somewhat more cheerful son, his crush on the pharmacy’s new cashier, Miss Hansen, and the equally enthusiastic two Petersens. Joy of life and free spirit clash with virtue and double standards in Copenhagen's nightlife, and the film’s programme is inscribed with the proclamation: ’The morality you display is not always the best!’ (Stumfilm.dk).

The world-famous elite soldier Master Sensei decides to blow himself up after a series of public scandals destroys his career. However, his plan is put on hold when he meets the young boy scout Piggy, who is in desperate need of help. Master Sensei must now go on one last mission, so he can help Piggy retrieve his braces from his evil tormentor.

Bathing Danish beauties.

A bird, desperate for love, goes on seven blind dates in one evening.

A fast-paced little farce about the racing enthusiast Hurtigkarl and his sports-mad dream – to see his favourite runner hitched with his daughter Musse. Since Musse would rather be with hairdresser Svipp, Hurtigkarl has to think on his feet: A race between the two rivals must decide the matter – the winner gets to be with Musse until the end of days. The plan seems impeccable, but there’s something Hurtigkarl hasn’t thought of. In the race, your mind must be as quick as your legs! (stumfilm.dk)

Jens is a great poet, he has no doubt about that. Lars Bukdahl, editor of the legendary literary magazine Hvedekorn, is another matter. And when his girlfriend, Mia, runs off with Daniel, who is older, taller, and more handsome than Jens—and even a culture editor and DJ!—Jens' world is shaken. Jens has almost given himself over completely to grief and eternal loneliness when a new plan emerges: he will win the world and love with his poetry.

FRAGMENT | Mac Davis runs a small press agency through which he conducts all sorts of shady business. Together with his helpers Clark and Durkins and his girlfriend Ellis he ruthlessly hustles through life. One day, the gang has a fight, and while Clark is thrown out, Durkins and Ellis decide to run away and start a new, righteous life together. Unfortunately, things don't go exactly as planned. (stumfilm.dk)

Honor, morality and the "right" outlook on life are paramount. And these concepts were by no means something to be made fun of, which can be somewhat annoying when you remember that this film is based on the English play "Bank Holiday", which took a good English fart on virtues and morality. Inger Holst is a nursing student who, at a party, meets the unreal Jørgen Frandsen, who invites her to a "festive night" one weekend at a hotel in Tisvilde. However, a tragic incident occurs at the hospital where she works. The incident involves the young widower, engineer Berg, whom she has come to know as a fine, real and sympathetic person. Inger's compassion makes her offer to give up her weekend trip and stay with him.

How did Denmark get involved in the Iraq War in 2003? Cultural sociologist Jørgen Andersen is on a mission. Armed with humor, a pointer and an overhead projector, he uncovers how two men and 100 lies turned Denmark into a warring nation. A satirical theater monologue by Jens Kløft with actor Peter Larsen in the role of Jørgen Andersen.

The lawyer Magnus Brygge has everything – a good job, two beautiful children and a young, beautiful student who has set her eyes on him. But soon his luck will begin to turn. A sleazy painter with nefarious ulterior motives first turns the head of the professor’s daughter and then of his young bride-to-be, with fatal outcomes and broken relationships as a result. Like sand through an hourglass, everything is about to go down in this bleak but breathtakingly beautiful winter drama with Olaf Fønss in the lead role. (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.

A propaganda film for diphtheria vaccination. The German armies brought a new and more dangerous form of diphtheria beyond the countries, and the refugees carried it on to war-torn Europe. It affects all age classes. Here too the country, and mortality is great. The Norwegian Serum Institute is in charge of vaccination.

An engaging and spirited musical journey to the Caribbean, this documentary focuses on Scratch band music, an indigenous, grass-roots form of folk music from the Virgin Islands. 79-year old James Brewster was an uncompromising, humorous, and provocative musician known for his playful compositions and lively performances and is the legendary 'King of Scratch'.

Artist group ABCinema's footage from Rødovrecentret, Denmark's first large shopping center in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen. A collage of super 8 footage, shot with multiple cameras. (DFI)

Heino has a morning program on the local radio station, but he is completely bored with old listeners and sponsored quizzes. That's why he invented the "Heino what you did last summer" program - and the audience in the hall is the program's listeners. Co-starring is Palle Birch, double Danish champion in improv comedy (2018 + 2019)

A silent, black-and-white train journey through Eastern European winter landscapes takes a man to a Croatian village. An arrival in the cinematic tradition of 1920s avantgarde, with the railway and industrial modernity as a favourite graphical motif, which takes him past a fish market and a strange procession, and finally home to a small family, where the grandparents drink tea, smoke cigarettes and chat cheerfully. The image of a young woman burns itself onto the celluloid - and into the filmmaker's consciousness.

Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest is a deadly serious comedy, set in the world of arcade games and world records. It tells the story about the friendship between a group of unlikely heroes and peculiar world class gamers, who - on a backdrop of loss and longing - has set out to do what no one has ever done before: play the arcade game Gyruss non stop for 100 hours.

​​Looking for a perfect family, a serial killer plays a deadly game in which he tightens up the rules of the game and starts to kill as ​​someone refuses to play his game. ​​

In an apartment in Copenhagen a young Arabic man is placing an object that appears to be a bomb in a backpack. Meanwhile he listens to the radio news telling of the latest development in the cartoon crisis. Has this young man had enough of Danish intolerance and hostility. Will he go to the extreme and do the thing we've all feared?

Four soldiers are passing away time when one, looking through the window, spies a pretty girl sitting on a veranda on the opposite side of the street. Naturally, the cards are left, and the four are soon crowding the window, each vying for the girl's attention, much to her amusement. Even their officer, who enters the room to scold them, is soon absorbed in making eyes at the charming creature. When the colonel surprises them and looks through the window, he's disgusted by the sight that meets his eyes. (stumfilm.dk)

A mysterious film! That was the succinct description in the original programme for ‘The Red Club’ in 1914. One day Baroness Sonja discovers that her boyfriend Prince Stanislaus is engaged to someone else. Red with rage, Sonja vows to seek revenge and joins the Red Club, a mysterious resistance movement for anyone, wanting to have the unpopular prince thrown out. However, Stanislaus’ adjutant Boris gets wind of it and goes after Sonja. Soon his pursuit turns into a real sensational clash with explosions, gunfights, and action. (Stumfilm.dk)

I ”Plukker kameler” giver Bang sit bud på, hvordan man tackler uafklarede problemer med andre - og hvordan man accepterer dét, der egentlig strider imod ens idealer og ønsker; Man plukker kameler! Alle kommenterer og konfronterer alt og alle. Men hvad sker der ved det? Ingenting. Der er ingen selvransagelse og derfor ingen konsekvenser. Ingen lærer noget. Det hele går i ring. Fordi ingen plukker kameler!

Ulrik's Monster is the story of a young boy who feels overlooked and ignored by his parents. This really becomes a problem when a gruesome monster turns out to be living in their backyard lake.

In a speculative future, the “Agency for Solidary Coexistence” sanctions citizens who consume too many resources. Gitte, living alone in a house full of possessions, faces a visit from a government agent who gradually dismantles both her life and her sense of self.

Alone and desperate in a dark cave, O creates his ex-girlfriend in a blob of slime and must confront old patterns in their relationship and his own self-image.

At a former asphalt factory construction site in a Copenhagen suburb, a group of artists and citizens aer participating in a project to reconnect with the remnants of nature that we often overlook in the city. The boundaries between artist, gardener and biologist are osmotic in a project where five different artists, each with their own practice, share the role of ‘Garden Caretaker’ – a figure that invites participants to experience and rediscover the richness of the surrounding flora and fauna in the middle of a changing urban space.

An existential pictorial poem about human life. "Can they stand it? Do they never feel?" (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.

Jeannette Ehlers is an artist and all of her art is centered around questions concerning structural racism. As the 100-year commemoration of the end of slavery in Denmark approaches, Jeannette decides to erect a monument - a huge statue of the female rebel leader Queen Mary, who was one of the main forces behind Denmark's first rebellion by enslaved people.

The immense population increase in Copenhagen mid of the 20th century requested new living space further from the city centre. The old town quarters of the danish capital offered neither enough space nor did they provide a life close to nature which was required especially by families with many children. Based on the so called „finger plan” from 1947 Copenhagen was enlarged along five radial traffic axes. Using the example of the estates Carlsrø in Rodøvre and Milestedet in Brøndbyøster "Bag de ens facader" documents life in a modern suburb.

Line is a 8 year-old girl who's biggest wish is to get a cat.

The scene is set on a castle in the mid-18th century. The princess loves a young man from the court, but the king wants her married to an older, wealthier suitor. Hoping for a miracle to happen, the princess refuses his marriage proposal. (Stumfilm.dk)

16-year-old Jonas is forced to choose between his old and misfit friend and his new girlfriend.

Danish stand-up from Anne Bakland