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.
19:00
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.