Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in Chile.

The first short by Ali Abbasi, a fiction shot during his studies at The National Film School of Denmark.

Beta Session was created in collaboration with Tuborg. The concert was recorded at Copenhagen Annal's office on Friday, November 26, 2010. Beta Session was created in collaboration with Tuborg. The concert was recorded at Copenhagen Annal's office on Friday, November 26, 2010.

Dr. med. Peter Lind is a young, partying model doctor who, despite an extensive and wealthy female clientele, is getting tired of the monotony of medical life and is therefore planning to go on a long trip abroad to experience adventure. His wife Vera is very unhappy with this plan. Peter and Vera have recently divorced after four years of marriage and are therefore better off than ever. Since they cannot agree on whether Peter should travel or not, they choose fashion writer and theater critic Martin Steen as their umpire.

The first film adaptation of Heiberg’s classic play about a superstitious mother, Karen, the elf-maiden Agnete and King Christian IV. Two infants are swapped at birth. Noble-born Elisabeth Munk is found on Elverhøjen (Elves’ Hill) and is brought up as Agnete, a peasant girl, whom all the locals believe to be an elf-maiden. She meets a noble knight, Sir Ebbesen, and the pair fall in love. But Sir Ebbesen is expected to marry a woman of his own noble standing – none other than the girl erroneously brought up as Elisabeth Munk. Suspecting that there is something fishy about the entire affair, King Christian IV sets out for Elves’ Hill to discover the truth of the matter. (stumfilm.dk)

In a miniature spaghetti western two brothers discover that life is what happens to you, just as you're busy doing other things.

As Britain's largest nuclear power plant rises from the ground next to his home, 11-year-old Sam cannot stop worrying about what will happen to the fish. A documentary film about holding on and letting go, and growing up.

Two of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales in a blend of animation and live-action.

Oliver Stanescu invites you to a Stand-Up Special about what it's like to be 29 years old and be the “proud” owner of two chronic diseases, while being filled with dreams about how life will turn out, despite some bumps in the road? The show is about Oliver's life, touching on topics such as multiple sclerosis, relationships and the desire to always have fun despite life's ups and downs

When she discovers a mysterious crack in the foundation of her workplace, the Copenhagen Opera, cleaner Angeli raises the alarm. She tries to find help, but it turns into a Kafkaesque odyssey: no one at her workplace seems to hear what she has to say, everyone follows the ethos of "the show must go on". The water is rising and Angeli has to find a way to make herself heard in this supernatural doomsday musical.

Trans people recall moments of euphoria, moments when they experienced true joy connected to their identity and community.

A young woman wants a child, but she doesn't have a man to have it with. She meets men who make advances, but she doesn't like any of them, and she is starting to feel lonely.

Animated documentary about a refugee boy who lives in hiding, constantly afraid of being exposed.

The portrayal of a city that refuses to die along with its defunct Soviet-era nuclear power plant. The mainly Russian speaking citizens there face identity issues in modern Lithuania. This portrayal inevitably raises questions of democracy, inclusion, citizenship, and freedom of expression.

Mira has heartaches from the recent breakup and feel hollow inside. Her friend Ingeborg trying in vain to fill Mira's hole with vodka and new men, but it is only when Mira encounters shaman Uhlrik that a more holistic solution arises: Mira must find her inner power animal. But after Uhlrik has drummed her in a trance, she meets not what she had expected....

After The Abyss follows a group of former content moderators in Nairobi who suffer from PTSD after being exposed to violent media content. By giving an insight into the moderators’ fight for better working conditions, their ongoing lawsuit against Meta in the city, and the Kenyan youth’s use of the internet to organize protests and independent news channels, After The Abyss becomes an audiovisual meditation on how technology and the internet both exploit and connect the entire city of Nairobi.

With hours of footage captured by Ukrainian filmmakers a collaboration to tell their story was initiated. This is the story about civilians facing death during wartime. And with a conversation between a son in Berlin and his parents still in Kyiv, the film portrayed the dilemma of how to survive the distance to war without loosing hope - for those who stayed, those who left and those who never returned.

Danish horror movie from 1921

A portrait of female photographer and freelancer Nanna Kreutzmann, who struggles to find her inner peace after spending her life documenting disasters and conflicts.

When a wealthy landowner falls in love with circus artist Miranda, she leaves her circus boyfriend to marry him. Although a life of affluence is pleasant, after years of marriage, Miranda starts to get bored. So when her former flame from the circus knocks on the door, Miranda is tempted to change partners again. (stumfilm.dk)

Lars, Eino and Thomas are fighting for a better future for themselves and their friends in Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. A youth film about hope, dreams and the right to be yourself in turbulent times.

A visual exploration of the female body and self-awareness, gently told by a variety of women using their own bodies as canvas.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at methods of pig breeding in Denmark.

Phillip Devantier's sharpest bits on everything from growing up, annoying parents, awkward dates, a trip to the psychologist and weight loss.

The aristocratic Krag refuses to let his daughter marry the bourgeois Carl Vedel, even though the whole family begs him to permit the match. Fortunately, several opportunities for persuading the stubborn patriarch suddenly appear. For example, it turns out that he regularly visits the manicurist Stella in town, and he will have to account for that. (stumfilm.dk)

The film gives a picture of the busy life that moves throughout the day in the Radio House, and it shows us the people behind the voices as well as the technical means needed to complete the broadcasts. Reportage and department manager Aksel Dahlerup (later radio director from 1959-1967) takes the viewer on a tour through the radio house's many studios, where orchestras rehearse, choir singers rehearse, actors record audio plays and speakers advertise the press radio newspaper. We also drop by the director's office, the music archive and the Marketenderiet, where the house's many employees meet over a bite to eat or a cup of coffee.

After a hot chat, teenager Jannick decides to meet his secret flirt for a dinner and hopes to find true love. However, this meeting takes an unexpected turn that will forever change Jannik's life.

Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.

This is a film about how an ordinary man, a restaurateur in a small Danish town and owner of Café Håbet, has his happiness shattered one morning. Restaurateur Christian Christiansen has just prepared for his big trip to visit his only son, who wants to build a house, and now he has to help with a loan, which he can afford. He has saved every penny, and now his son is well on his way and is going to build, not a poor house with a cardboard roof and cheap materials, no, a proper brick villa with red bricks and tiles.

Asst. Director Tómas Gislason and Producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen reflects on their "faecal location" when they shot Lars von Trier's Europa (1991) in Poland.

A stream of associative patterns is woven into the many ambiguous meanings of the river image. There are cracks to blind areas of loss and oblivion, world fires and floods - and to an oasis of dreams, fantasies and myths. Images materialize in the borderline between mind and world.

Sofus and Ingrid meet for the first time on a sugar date. An evening marked by different expectations and a lack of understanding for each other. The evening will reveal something about each of them when the facades finally break down and they suddenly understand all the different intentions that have brought them together on their awkward date.

Huxi Bach wants to get to the bone. To the important things. Or at least what he thinks is important. That's what he tries to do in his new one-man show - IND TIL BENET. Of course, when you try this, you have to be careful because you can easily cut your finger, or even worse: saw off the branch you're sitting on! But it's important to get in there where it hurts a little. And once you've gotten in there, THEN you have to laugh about it. Loud and long. Because otherwise we won't get anywhere. Huxi has brought his guitar again - because everything goes a little easier with a song. And if that's not enough, there will probably be a few slides too.

Documentation of a royal visit to Bellevue.

Early wrestling footage.

Experience a year in a classroom in Ilulissat, where kids have each others' backs, participate in exciting activities and navigate friendships and challenges in their daily lives.

A poetic fairy tale about a man who steals the clown's heart, seeks to give it to various people who don't want it or need it, and finally delivers it back to the clown. (DFI)

Mads attempts, during a written assessment, to help his fellow classmates pass the exam.

An intimate statement about the filmmaker’s need for self-expression through her own nudity and simultaneously an effort to reject the taboo of patriarchal society. Using diary entries, anger-filled personal reflections, and discussions with a mother painting her nude daughter, the film opens the topic of overcoming shame for one’s own physicality and female sexuality.

After her son's death, the mother struggles to find herself and constantly sees visions. She becomes increasingly difficult to control.

An old, ailing general is losing his memory. His anarchist son wants to connect. They share a passion for the Wild East, where grandfather was a famous explorer among Mongol tribes. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1948 in Afghanistan. Rumors say he was a British agent and gunrunner. Michael, the grandson, takes his father Søren out of the nursing home. He wants him to taste life, and he wants them to spend time together. The odd couple travel across China. They encounter temples, chiefs, and ancestors who reveal that the grandfather was a true Lawrence of the East. A man who fought to unite the Mongol tribes and defend them against the Soviet Reds.

16-year old Emilie has always been a boy inside. His big struggle in life is that his mother wants Emilie to be a girl and cannot accept the ways Emilie feels inside. At an easter lunch Emilie decides to do something drastic which has it's consequences.

In China, boutique agencies hire foreigners to stand around and make people and places appear more prestigious to the Chinese gaze. What underpins this widespread cultural phenomenon?

Jespers aunt dies and leaves him a great sum of money. He then goes to buy a painting from a mysterious man...