Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

Dramatization of the time around the first Danish Social Democrats and the Battle of Fælleden. A social blockbuster produced for AOF.

Esme is still an unspoiled youth when she lets the AI's intellectual algorithms take her away from what awaits her: society's foremost initiation rite - the first plastic surgery. In Beata Gårdeler's visually poetic future, narcissism has taken over and the norms of beauty has been drawn to extreme.

Acclaimed theater director Erik Werner is setting up a stage play dramatizing memories from his marriage to his wife Juliane who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. During the process Erik discovers that he and Juliane have had vastly different experiences of their shared life together. Experiences that will make Erik see his marriage in a new light.

As children, Fritz and Adolphe are sold to a traveling showman, who trains them to become circus artists. Together with the two girls Louise and Aimée, they perform to audiences night after night while being subjected to a harsh training regimen and daily beatings. As the four friends grow up to become young adults, their master dies, and they begin to perform to an enthusiastic audience as The Four Devils. Countess Taube, who regularly watches their performances, falls in love with Fritz. Despite the budding love between him and Aimée, Fritz embarks on a relationship with the Countess, causing Aimée to devise a fatal revenge plan. (stumfilm.dk)

The two friends Anton and Theodor are preparing for a night out. They are young and carefree – facing zero challenges aside of being out of booze. The mood drastically changes when their friend Simon arrives with a confession to make.

Remake of Nordisk Film’s great 1917 blockbuster about the young officer’s daughter who loses her heart to an Indian nobleman and flees with him to the Orient. In India, she becomes one among many wives in a harem. Desperate she lays plans to escape, but the bonds of love pull the other way. Stumfim.dk

Ane Høgsberg's second solo show is about one of the few things we all have in common: death. We encounter it several times in our lives, and we will all die one day. But how do we want to leave this world? What will be said at our funeral—and can we actually choose the animal we want to be reborn as? When Ane spent three weeks in the spring of 2018 fearing she had breast cancer, all these questions bubbled up—not in a scary way, but more like: Do they remember to make enough cake for the funeral reception? What song should be played in the church? And how will my childhood sweetheart take the news? Fortunately, Ane did not have cancer, but it set off a lot of thoughts: What is basically the craziest way to die, and who should definitely not inherit anything when the time comes?

The landowner couple Von Rambow are experiencing significant financial difficulties and are therefore forced to leave their residence and their happy life in Copenhagen. Instead, they must settle for the more down-to-earth life of farmers. The young maiden Marie Møller is deeply in love with Von Rambow's cousin Count Frantz, but he prefers the estate inspector's beautiful Louise. The unfortunate Triddelfitz, on the other hand, is madly in love with Marie Møller, which leads to many complications before all the pieces of the puzzle of love fall into place.

A young man is confronted with his past actions in a nightmare of an acid trip.

A film director seeks out his childhood friend who molested him when they were both children. He hesitantly agrees to meet and together they return to the repressed past in a brave and deeply unusual tale that breaks a terrible taboo.

A monk who cherishes a secret passion for a young lady sees her receive an admirer in secret and tells her father. The father declares that he will place the girl in a convent. This is just what the crafty priest wants.

Niels Skousen’s music speaks effortlessly to people across generations. He has been with us all the way from the beat generation, through the hippie era, and strolled through the political landscape to today, where he still stands out as a sharp and loving observer. An unmistakably personal voice and music that freely and unpretentiously speaks directly to the audience.

The entrepreneurial duo Tobias and Benjamin arrive at serial entrepreneur Allan Dyrkjær's castle to get an investment. But no one opens the door, and when Allan claims they don't have a deal, Benjamin has to fight to be allowed to pitch for his idol. Tobias is more lukewarm about the welcome they receive from the enigmatic billionaire, so the cracks in the partnership begin to show.

After discovering a rumor has been spread about her, Pernille agrees to confront the girl suspected to be behind it at a party, but the situation quickly escalates and Pernille feels pressured into actions that cannot be undone.

Chili is an ordinary girl, who on an ordinary summers day ventures out to a countryside lake for a swim - all alone. The lake seems deserted, and little does she sense how someone or something is watching her. Equally little does she know that below her in the deep something else is stirring. In the end Chili must face not only the mysterious stalker but also face the terrible secret of the lake.

Musical Magda has three suitors – the insidious bank clerk Hilmer, the kind-hearted Dr. Dyring and the nice supreme court attorney Hatting. Much to Dyring’s annoyance, Hatting is the first to pluck up the courage and propose, and Magda soon becomes Mrs. Hatting. After a few years, she becomes bored of the marriage and decides to leave her husband, children and home in favour of the dishonest Hilmer. However, it doesn’t take long before she takes off her rose-tinted glasses and sees Hilmer for who he really is. (Stumfilm.dk)

While the world is ablaze, a blind director asks her theater group to help her process her broken heart. In a chaotic and iconographic role play, the group embarks on its search for love's true nature, while the fear of the physical world's limitations are buried deep underneath the stage floor.

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

A wildly entertaining show with Finn Nørbygård and Jette Torp. Over 170,000 Danes have enjoyed Finn and Jette's musical talent for parodies and comedy on all levels!

An upper grade school class with its inter-relations, scheming and sniffing around for the scent of adult pleasures, all caught in near-cinema verité style.

In a boarding house in the city live our friends Pat and Patachon, who have settled down in relative comfort for a modest sum of money. In the room next door lives an old inventor, a good friend of Pat and Patachon's. He’s been working on a television set for some time now, and it seems that his efforts will bear fruit. Patachon has caught the inventing bug and wants to come up with smokeless and noiseless gunpowder. All the while, Pat becomes increasingly worried about his friend. Two shady gentlemen are now attempting to steal the valuable drawings for the television invention, and Pat and Patachon become suspects in the case. Fortunately, the real thieves are caught, and Patachon gets the opportunity to demonstrate his ingenious invention.

Ghost is an expressionistic short film about a little ghost who wakes up alone in a empty town, and tries to find her way back home to her parents, whose relationship hangs by a thread after their loss. The world of the mother and daughter interweaves as she tries to make it trough a alien yet familiar landscape of places, emotions and memories in an attempt to get home. And get closure.

In Copenhagen, a triptych of love stories come to vivid life. Framed with a prying naturalism, these tales through the seasons tackle the ever rising tide of loneliness and self-doubt that can come in the face of new love.

It's not always easy being a father – archivist Jørgensen knows this all too well. His only son, Bent, is more interested in the band he and his friends have formed than in his studies. One evening, as the house shakes with syncopated rhythms, the archivist loses his hard-won patience and gives his son the choice between giving up his music or moving out of the house. The next day, Bent seeks out his two friends to complain about his plight, but his friends have more than enough of their own worries, which can be summed up in one word: money.

It's been over two years since we last spoke, and boy has a lot happened! The pandemic is over, Europe is at war and Thomas has been diagnosed with high cholesterol. Not only that, but he also has involuntary urination, has started watching reality TV, has been to Noma, got a new bathroom, and he's starting to think that maybe he's halfway through life, and has everything really turned out as it should? What's the point! Is he the best version of himself? Is society?!!! SHOULD EVERYTHING REALLY BE SO MUCH BETTER?!?!? OH MY GOD!!! Wait!!! Isn't it better that we just get together and have a laugh about it all? And oh yeah... I guess he's a father too.

Silvia, who is pregnant, is at her parents in-law wedding anniversary, and she has been looking forward to it because its the first time she is meeting her boyfriend’s, Christian, side of the family.

Sonny, Richael, Steen and Patric dream of doing the perfect heist, but all have very different ideas about how it's done right. The tension rises as they have to spend a night in jail - after yet another failed heist. However, as the night progresses they have to come to terms with each other, in order to plan the perfect heist.

A story inspired by a shoe-doll displayed in Childhood Museum, Edinburgh. This short film shows a touching story about a young girl and her father in a poverty, London, 1910s. Qian Shi's BA Animation graduation film. The Best Student Film of BAF08. MX Award at TAF2010 (Tokyo Anime Fair 2010).

2-part portrait of a girl suffering from anorexia and bulimia.

1943. You are sitting in a boat with Josef. He is rowing from occupied Denmark to safety in neutral Sweden. As the boat crosses the ocean, the sea gives way to the streets and people that populate his mind. Your journey together becomes a living landscape of painful recollections from the night of his escape. As dawn draws near, you will witness the trauma of escape and the guilt of surviving—when those you love are left behind.

Linette has been chatting with a mysterious person on Facebook. When one of her classmates dies tragically and a masked person is spotted watching her and her friends on several occasions, Linette decides to unfriend her mystery Facebook friend. But things are about to get much worse.

A feature length documentary about the rise and fall of the world's smallest independent nation; Nauru.

Class 7B from N. Koch's school in Aarhus are the stars of the film, which deals with all the joys and problems experienced by the pupils - on the border of the adult world. The film contains all elements: The boys who enjoy the pictures of the pornographic magazines, the girls practicing in front of the mirror, intrigues, unrequited love, sexuality, and feelings which cannot be controlled.

How do you create meaning from the horrors war brings to a country and the damages it leaves behind? The Ukrainian artist Vladyslav Krasnoshchok traveling around Kharkiv on his motorcycle. Through photographing on his wide selection of analogue cameras Vlad is processing the world forever changed around him while developing his own distinct style of documenting the war in Ukraine.

A documentary about a young woman who is at a crossroads in her life.

Six-year-old Tobias is crazy about birds and wants a parrot, but his mother doesn't want the mess in the apartment. Tobias rescues a sparrow that is stuck in some bushes. The sparrow turns out to be a blind fairy who, as a thank you, will grant Tobias a wish. Will he now get the parrot he wants? The blind fairy has promised to conjure up a parrot for Tobias. Unfortunately, she ends up turning Tobias into a parrot instead, and before she can make amends, Tobias is captured by the evil bird dealer and put in a cage in his shop. Can Tobias, with the help of the other birds, escape and meet the fairy as agreed?

A woman decides to pick up a refugee and drive him across the border to Sweden. Faced with the prospect of prosecution and imprisonment, she reconsiders her decision. Can she follow through with what she has set out to do?

A young girl named Stella is raised in captivity, but is one day given the opportunity to escape. Once she escapes she must find her way home and uncover her past.

Stalking Roe, Red and Fallow Deer at the famous Blair Atholl Estate in Highland Perthshire. Includes Rabbit, Pheasant and driven Duck shoots.