Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

Teacher Clausen and his classmates don't think Henry can figure anything out. But then Henry gets glasses.

"Up from the couch and out and choose!" The film is an appeal to the Danes to cast their vote at the general election on October 30, 1945 - the first election after the liberation.

Bamse is braver than ever before, and this takes him out into the big wide world, where he has never been before. In his encounter with the big wide world, he meets Snupse, Pandekagekonen, and Danse-Alfen.

By coincidence, Pat and Patachon are cast for the lead roles in a major film production. It quickly turns out that the odd couple doesn't fit in to just any plot, and especially Patachon's helpless attempts to play prince charming are testing the director's patience. (stumfilm.dk)

In the show Things From My Mouth, the audience gets to meet Ruben in version 2.0. Although his distinctive hairstyle still battles with his brain over who curls the most, it's a more grown-up version of the popular man you meet in 2018. He still generously shares his life experiences and embarrassing moments, and in a world where fitting in is unhealthily important, Ruben is also different, awkward and damn sensitive. All these personal traits touch Ruben in the upcoming show - where you should expect the unexpected when he takes the stage. He's older, but still a bit of a goofball!

Elena is a dystopian film about a girl trying to survive in a world where civilization has collapsed. Everyone has to fend for themselves.

On a cold evening he decides to go into a library where he finds all kinds of different worlds to escape to.

A "debate film" depicting high school as an exciting workplace for both teachers and students. The film was shot at Falkonergårdens Gymnasium.

Her dream was to make it big in Jamaica as a reggae artist. It finally came true, but not in the way she had hoped. In the beginning of 2008 she hit the number one spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Chart with the song Calabria, which went on to become a massive hit all over the world. Very much also in Jamaica. At the same time she was the most award winning singer that year in her homeland Denmark with a best-selling album in her native language. Ironically she didn't live to see all this. After fighting for her break-through for 17 years, her success had only just begun to bloom, when a driver crashed her car on the way from performing at a stage show in Jamaica. In the car with her was her longtime best friend Karen Mukupa who survived the accident.

Else is madly in love with her botany teacher Petersen. He is courted by almost all of his students, but Else is the one to whom he ultimately proposes. Their engagement is announced on Else’s 18th birthday, much to the horror of her parents, who want a less common son-in-law. They send her to her room, but she soon runs away. Together with Petersen, she drives out into the balmy summer night to cause a scandal so that her parents will have to let them marry. Pat and Patachon, who work for a temping agency and were previously hired as temporary servants for the birthday party, are now called in as detectives to track down the runaway couple. (Stumfilm.dk)

Mr Kruse, a merchant, lives in a pleasant country house with his daughter Alice. Although Alice is busy studying for her exams, she finds time to flirt with the young, handsome Søren Hammer, much to her father’s displeasure. When the family goes sailing to celebrate Alice’s graduation, Søren Hammer and one of his friends follow in the students’ wake. Meanwhile, two vagabonds on the run from the law, Pat and Patachon, take possession of the country house and come up with a – in their opinion – clever ruse to make money. (Stumfilm.dk)

A former sheriff accused of heresy, robbery and conspiracy tries to live the lawless life. But that is quickly put an end to when a bounty hunter is sent after him, and he must risk everything in a quest to regain his honor.

To the sounds of a shifting collage of pop music, three dancing queer bodies move around sparsely lit spaces where fragile walls are falling apart. The transience of the walls, the vanity of the dancers, the chiaroscuro-lit images, and the title of the film take us back to the 17th century and Baroque painting, where the concept of vanitas was used for still lifes that referred to the vanity of life through elements such as fruits and flowers. ‘Vanitas’ is a musical dance work in a decaying, dreamlike world full of fragility and uncertain intimacy, in a constant alternation between being alone and being part of something.

We follow Angus the hospital clown as his relationship with the six-year old Tobias evolves into a friendship that just might help Tobias beat the cancer. This is a story about being all alone and having someone to be alone with.

Atmospheres from Poul Dissing, Benny Andersen and their group's journey from place to place to perform, seen through the painter Søren Hansen's gaze. The film is typically an experimental film and has no intention of reporting from Dissing's tour. It makes use of e.g. double exposures (multiple images copied on top of each other) and fragmentary sound clips to capture the moods of the traveling musicians.

About all the complications that can arise when women appear in men's costumes, even if it's to save a friend in need.

Jazz Icons: Sonny Rollins features two intimate concerts filmed in the '60s for Danish television at the pinnacle of one of his most creative periods. Cast: Sonny Rollins ... Self / Saxophone Alan Dawson ... Self / Drums Kenny Drew ... Self / Piano Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen ... Self / Bass

A Tinder date, a couple of friends, and a drunk man run into trouble when expectations and desires don't match.

A new law has just been introduced in Denmark. People diagnosed with narcissism are no longer allowed to raise a child and will have it taken away after birth. The new law forces the expectant parents Timo and Ida to take a psychological test. Ida is very concerned, but Timo does not take it so seriously. But does he really have reason to take it so lightly?

A ten-year-old boy has nightmares about the world ending. And when he asks his parents if it could actually happen, they just argue. He can sense that his father and mother are no longer happy together. And suddenly, the house begins to creak and groan, while the ceiling cracks and slowly collapses onto the sofa.

The self-absorbed clarinetist Frederik lives a comfortable life with his aging, flawed robot father, Allan 3000. But when Frederik suddenly loses his job, his daily routine is disrupted.

Eyad fled to Denmark from Syria. He now spends a lot of time alone in his room, feeling lost. His mother takes care of him but is concerned about what will happen when she is gone. Danish director William Andreas Wivel brings in his personal experience of losing his mother and creates a touching farewell, which examines the emotional complexity of saying goodbye to a loved one while losing yourself in the process.

The philosopher Edmund Burke has fled London, debt collectors and a ramping midlife crisis to go on a grand tour of the Alps to rewrite his book on the Sublime in this 18th-century road movie.

After two critically acclaimed albums, The Minds of 99 are in the process of making their third release, 'Solkongen'. With trippy lyrics, a middle finger raised to all genres, and a tightly knit bond thanks to many years of friendship, the band is aiming to fly even higher. The film moves with the group from sold-out concerts to isolation in a bunker and a long trip to the Danish island of Bornholm. It depicts a band that tries to find a foothold in a time of unrest and upheaval – both internally in the band and the world in general. The front figure and perfectionist Niels Brandt balances between his own ambitions and a person who in essence is just 33-year-old Niels. But just as the five friends are on the verge of fulfilling the dream that they have harboured since childhood, Niels's creative driving force – his darkness – has suddenly disappeared. Does Niels have to look for his darkness again to be able to formulate his visions?

A charming portrait of an 81-year-old Swedish woman's life - and love affair! - in the middle of Ukrainian nowhere, where time has come to a standstill.

Quark the troll meets Santa Claus and takes him for a ride.

Fun at the beach.

Acclaimed cinematographer Henning Bendtsen reflects on working with directors Carl Theodor Dreyer and Lars von Trier.

I "Befri dyrene" er Split og hans venner ude på en redningsaktion, hvor de skal redde de dyr, som den grumme Hr. Krogh holder fanget. Dvd'en er rettet mod 5 - 5 1/2-årige børn og træner balance, koordination og reaktionsevne. Det er vigtige færdigheder for at kunne begå sig sikkert i trafikken. Dvd'en "Befri dyrene" er sjette del af historien om Split og hans venner. Temaerne på dvd'en passer sammen med "Min Trafikbog 5 1/2".

I "Big Time Paranoia" introducerer Gintberg publikum for et helt nyt begreb - comedy terapi – hvilket var noget, der i den grad fik løsnet lattermusklerne hos publikum og anmelderne, da showet turnerede landet i foråret 2007. Med sin energiske, sarkastiske og selvironiske fremtoning beviser Jan Gintberg, at man i stedet for at søge læge måske kan løse egne problemer blot ved at åbne for lattermusklerne og give los. I løbet af to timer har publikum overgivet sig og forstået budskabet.

World Health Organisation associated animation, which highlights the dangers of everyday activities and excess in an abstract manner.

A young Norwegian woman tries to make it as a screenwriter in the Danish film industry. Unfortunately, she runs out of ideas before she even gets started. Like the rest of film history's self-conscious wannabes, however, she is good at creating visual montages of the classic poses of writer's block. It doesn't help. You can't make a film without at least one good idea.

Two childhood friends are pitted against each other when a desperate robbery goes horribly wrong.

Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious enthusiasm initiates us in his special poetry.

Stand-up about love, hate - and everything in between. From the first awkward love letters in 70s schoolyards to booty calls at the nursing home - love is a travel partner throughout life. ‘Love’ is the eighth one-man show from one of Denmark's most prolific comedians, Thomas Hartmann, and is about exactly what the title suggests. Love, or lack thereof, is an emotion that affects us all, whether we are recipients, senders or outside spectators, and when you have Hartmann's outlook on life, it is an almost inexhaustible source of amusement.

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion, archival images and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.

Documentary portrait from 1995 of the Danish star of the silent screen, Asta Nielsen.

Sonia is 17, queer, and living with her mother who is navigating living with bipolar disorder. We enter as Sonia is studying for an important exam, whilst constantly disturbed by her mother and her own teenage impulses.

Just before bedtime, Christian overhears a conversation between his grandmother and shopkeeper Blache. While Blache stubbornly insists that wealth is the only true happiness, the grandmother believes that a bright mind is worth more than its weight in gold. Christian agrees with Blache, but at night – filled with anticipation before his forthcoming birthday – he dreams of something that makes him see the matter in quite a different light. (stumfilm.dk)

Silas struggles with a gloomy and vicious rush of thoughts that makes him disgusted with those around him. He tries to seek help from his father, but an unpleasant experience sends Silas on a destructive journey where past and present meet. Silas must resort to desperate means to overcome the demons he inherited from his father.

A young artist decides to create the perfect painting. For every brushstroke he paints, he gets further one in a long psychological process and soon cracks his picture of the perfect.

When his next door neighbor, Granny Samurai, defends Sam against the school bully Boris, Sam is first relieved, then alarmed and then highly panicked as she drags him headfirst into an adventure wilder than any book he has ever read. For the Monkey King is sniffing around Sam’s house, looking for a secret weapon to help him in his fight against the human race and soon the school bully will be the smallest problem Sam can possibly imagine.

A short documentary looking at the career of acclaimed Danish humorist, artist and cartoonist Robert Storm Petersen - “Storm P”.