Calendar
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Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
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Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet / United Kingdom, Denmark & United States / 2024 / World Premiere / 100 min
Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film about an aging couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
François Caillat / France / 2023 / 72 min
One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.
17:00
The Son and the Moon
Roja Pakari / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 87 min
A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonprez / Belgium, France & Netherlands / 2024 / 150 min
The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.
18:30
The Son and the Moon
Roja Pakari / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 87 min
A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.
19:00
As the Tide Comes In
Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen (Co-director) / Denmark / 2023 / 89 min
The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. Still, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.
Daughter of Genghis
Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, Christian Als & Knud Brix / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2024 / World Premiere / 86 min
A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.
Democracy Noir
Connie Field / United States, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 113 min
Three brave women are fighting to expose the corruption and incremental destruction of democracy in Viktor Orbán's Hungary - a white nationalist regime that is the envy of authoritarian movements around the world.
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
Andreas Hartmann & Arata Mori / Germany & Japan / 2024 / 86 min
In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.
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The Flats
Alessandra Celesia / France, United Kingdom, Ireland & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere / 114 min
A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.
A Place in The Sun
Mette Carla Albrechtsen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 80 min
A visual tour of the pastel-coloured holiday destination of Gran Canaria, a haven for millions of tourists - and for people fleeing more than just rain and cold. The paradoxes of tourism meet the harsh realities of those who live in paradise all year round.