Highlights

Festival hits and front page stories. Great films, great stories, and great characters.

The Train and the Peninsula

A thoughtful and sensuous tour along Mexican train tracks on the Yutacán Peninsula, where a new, large-scale railway project threatens the indigenuos Mayan culture and the nature around them.

A Disturbance in the Force

A wildly entertaining deep dive into the Star Wars film everone tried to forget, but which refused to die and has grown to become the ultimate cult favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Every Little Thing

Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

A black and white (self-)portrait of a fascinating, liberated artist and the memory of her wild youthful journey from Czechoslovakia to freedom in the last decades of the Soviet Union.

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.

God is a Woman

The Search for a lost film from the 70s takes a young man from one of South America's largest indigenous communities on an existential journey in a post-colonial film about the right to one's own image.

The Contestant

A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.

Bottlemen

7,000 years ago, the area was one of the largest civilisations in prehistoric Europe. Today, it is the largest landfill on the continent. An unexpected festival hit about the men who fight a daily battle against the fury of the elements.

Agent of Happiness

How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10? Two government officials are sent out to measure the happiness of the people of Bhutan, but how are they doing themselves? A bittersweet, existential crowd favourite from the Himalayas.

Minted

How can a digital artwork that anyone can download for free be sold for 69 million dollars? Get the answer - and lots of new questions to ponder - in a critical and entertaining film about culture and capital in the 21st century.

A New Kind of Wilderness

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.

Swan Song

A love sonata to ballet and to 'Swan Lake' with all that it entails of hard training, low self-esteem, dreams, racism, redemption and stubborn traditions that might be in a process of change.

Copa 71

A forgotten chapter in Danish football history finally gets its place in the spotlight 50 years after a legendary World Cup match in Mexico. A film with women in all the leading roles and with all the drama and excitement you would expect from a true adventure.

Tehachapi

The hardest core of inmates in a maximum security prison in California participate in a life-changing photography project with French art star and Oscar-nominated director JR.

Johatsu – Into Thin Air

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.

Bye Bye Tiberias

Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.

Antarctica Calling

The sequel to the international mega-hit 'The March of the Penguins' returns to Antarctica on an epic adventure with director Luc Jacquet as a familiar guide in the alien landscapes.

Being Ola

Heartwarming and life-affirming Norwegian coming-of-age story about the intellectually disabled man Ola, his deeply felt friendship with Danish Lasse and the need for all people to belong.

Time to Gather

A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.

Ibelin

A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.