Films
Country Denmark:
A Dangerous Boy
Reality beats fiction in the story of Icelandic teenage hacker Siggi who became Julian Assange's sidekick in a story of paranoia, intelligence services, abuse, friendship and betrayal. A coming of age film unlike any other.
Ole Bendtzen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
A Place in The Sun
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.
Mette Carla Albrechtsen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Afterwar
Four survivors confront us with their own words in a cinematic post-war report from Kosovo. A performative feature film created over 15 years in a twilight borderland between raw realism and inner battlefields.
As the Tide Comes In
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.
Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen (Co-director) / Denmark / 2023
Balomania
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.
Sissel Morell Dargis / Denmark & Spain / 2024 / World Premiere
Børne:Dox – Corona i børnehøjde
A Norwegian and a Danish story about life in isolation during the corona pandemic - seen from the children's perspective.
Børne:Dox – Et nyt liv
In two heartwarming short films, we follow first a family's love through the chaos of war and then a brave girl's journey in Aleppo, exploring hope and love in the midst of darkness.
Børne:Dox: De største spørgsmål med de mindste
Meet the talented Ömer Sami as we screen three of his touching films, all of which depict the world through the eyes of children with a unique intensity.
Ömer Sami / Denmark & United Kingdom
Børne:Dox: Verdensnyheder i børnehøjde
Mads Køngerskov has travelled all over the world for DR Nyheder with his camera, telling visual stories and with his special eye for children, he has collected his best stories that give insight into children's lives across the globe.
Mads Køngerskov / Denmark / 2023
Bravehearts
The first two years in Denmark's only crisis centre for young people under 18. Joannahuset gives vulnerable young people a temporary home and a helping hand in the fight against a bureaucracy that doesn't always listen to them.
Mette Korsgaard / Denmark / 2023 / World Premiere
Can’t Feel Nothing
An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.
David Borenstein / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Core Memory
A simple and beautiful film about a three-year-old girl spending an afternoon in her own company, with a jar of colour at hand and her own body as a canvas.
Patricia Drati / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Core Memory + You Are Closer To God When You Do Not Indulge + My Next Door Neighbours + Finale
Four artistic Danish short films screened together.
Patricia Drati, Tore Hallas, Maia Torp Neergaard & Marlene Lyngstad / Denmark
Daughter of Genghis
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.
Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, Christian Als & Knud Brix / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2024 / World Premiere
Death of a Saint
A Danish director travels to Uganda to find out what happened the Christmas Eve her mother lost her life. A personal and life-affirming film about family, motherhood and confronting the past.
Patricia Bbaale Bandak / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Democracy Noir
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.
Connie Field / United States, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Echo of You
A poetic and touchingly honest film about lifelong love and what remains when it disappears. The echoes of love resound in the poignant, humorous and life-affirming stories of those left behind.
Zara Zerny / Denmark / 2023
Efterklang: The Makedonium Band
A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.
Andreas Johnsen / Denmark & North Macedonia / 2024 / World Premiere
Farvel uden tak (Thanks for Your Service)
A heartwarming and vibrant film about a chapter in life that everyone will have to deal with sooner or later: The transition from working life to retirement.
Carina Randløv / Denmark / 2023 / World Premiere
Fighting Demons
A young man struggles to break free from the demons of his past that still haunt him years after the sexual abuse he survived as a child.
Simon Anker / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda
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.
Loran Batti / Sweden & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
God, Please Send a Whale
A Danish family travels to Brazil to say goodbye to their mother, who passed away six years ago. But things don't quite go according to plan. Can the father and the two adult sisters reach each other and talk about loss, life and death?
Julie Bezerra Madsen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
I see it, so you don’t have to
Combining machine learning and Jacquard weaving, the artistic wall-hanging delves intomental health of low paid micro-workers laboring in the data and content moderationsector of the AI industry.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2023 / European Premiere
Intangible
Intangible investigates the oddly satisfying sensation of touching simulated natural phenomena while calling attention to the controversial idea of reconnecting with nature through computational means.
Carl Emil Carlsen / Denmark / 2023