King Hamlet

Elvira Lind / United States & Denmark / 2025 / International Premiere / 89 min

Actor Oscar Isaac faces the most difficult role of his life. He is to play Hamlet at New York’s Public Theater. But at the same time, his life off stage is also in a dramatic act. He is expecting his first child with his wife and the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Elvira Lind, at a time when he has just lost his mother.

Grief and joy break like waves in Lind’s dramatic and deeply personal film about the process leading up to the premiere of Shakespeare’s classic. It begins as an actor’s process, but develops into a meditation on love, life, and the porous boundary between performance and private life.

With ‘King Hamlet’, Lind continues her acclaimed exploration of the intersection between art and life, but this time with the camera focused on her own family. A film created with a rare intimacy and raw, emotional honestyand with ultimate expectations for art itself.