The Shipwrecked Triptych

Deniz Eroglu / Germany / 2025 / 90 min

The staff are celebrating New Year’s Eve at a German nursing home in the 1980s. A Congolese refugee family is approached by a suspicious government bureaucrat in their home. And in a dark and medieval Europe, a vagrant gets lost in an enchanted forest. Danish-Turkish visual artist Deniz Eroglu’s first feature is unlike anything else seen in Danish cinema. Visionary and with the will to invent new worlds, he mixes genres such as queer comedy, psychological thriller and psychedelic medieval horror (!) in a cinematic triptych of three thematically connected but otherwise independent stories. The thematic connection? Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old painting ‘The Ship of Fools’. The fact that parts of the film were shot on 35mm film and then transferred to VHS is one of the things that makes magical sense when you watch it.