Therese Henningsen

Therese Henningsen is a filmmaker and programmer based in London. Her filmmaking often finds its shape through the encounter with the person(s) filmed and the direction this takes. Her films include All These Summers (2025), After Time (2023), Slow Delay (2018), Baby Jesus and Maintenancer (2023 and 2018, with Sidsel Meineche Hansen). She has co-edited the anthology Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter (2022), with Juliette Joffé. She is a member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen engaging with the social life of film, and is a co-founder of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London/Copenhagen. She is a mentor on MA DocFiction at UCL and on MA Performance: Screen at Central Saint Martins, and facilitates the Open City Docs short course Documentary as Encounter. She is working on a practice-led PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.