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.
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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.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude / Romania, Luxembourg, France & Croatia / 2023 / 163 min
... but expect one of the wildest and most entertaining films of the year when Romanian iconoclast Radu Jude drums up a blistering social satire. A true speedball of a film that moves freely across forms and genres.
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.
Trans Hero
Sol Amanda Wendel & Evo Smilla S. Sidney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 54 min
Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.
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.
I Shall Not Hate
Tal Barda / Canada & France / 2024 / World Premiere / 95 min
A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.
17:00
G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda
Loran Batti / Sweden & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 80 min
The Swedish gang conflict seen from the inside over five years by a filmmaker who is at home portraying one of Sweden's most dangerous areas, which he is now moving out of. A poetic and existential film about life, death and brotherhood.
E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub / Switzerland / 2024 / World Premiere / 89 min
A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.
18:00
A New Kind of Wilderness
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen / Norway / 2024 / 83 min
A family who have created an idyllic self-sufficient life for their four children are forced to rethink their choices and try to (re)integrate into modern society when tragedy strikes unexpectedly. Radical life choices meet dilemmas in a moving and wise film.
Israelism
Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen / United States / 2023 / 84 min
Two young American Jews are raised to love Israel unconditionally, but their lives take a sharp left turn when they experience the plight of the Palestinians. A film about Jewish identity on both sides of the generation gap.
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Efterklang: The Makedonium Band
Andreas Johnsen / Denmark & North Macedonia / 2024 / World Premiere / 81 min
A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.
Balomania
Sissel Morell Dargis / Denmark & Spain / 2024 / World Premiere / 93 min
With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
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.
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.
21:00
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Niobe Thompson / Canada & United States / 2024 / World Premiere / 82 min
Led by star scientist Eske Willerslev, a team of researchers are sequencing DNA from before the Ice Age for the first time in history. A project that could revolutionise our understanding of the history of life itself.
There was Nothing Here Before
Yvann Yagchi / Switzerland / 2024 / 71 min
A Swiss-Palestinian director visits his childhood friend who has moved to an Israeli colony, to make a film about their relationship that transcends borders and political differences.