LIV (23) lives at a correctional institution for women, where sexuality is considered dangerous. The facility is run by the head nurse JETTE (45), whose utmost task is to teach women proper edicette. Liv dreams of being free and keeps breaking the rules, resulting in her being sent to the HEADMASTER’s (43) office. Here Liv sees an opportunity to challenge the fundamental beliefs of the institution, but how far should she go in order to prove herself?
The Moomin family has been hibernating for months, dreaming of sunshine and summer. But then a Hemul comes to visit—and wakes them up to tell them that Christmas is here. But no one in the Moomin family has ever heard of Christmas before. "Who is Christmas?" they ask. No one has time to tell them about Christmas. But they think that the Moomin family should have both a Christmas tree and food. Moomin, Moominmamma, and Moominpappa prepare a lot of delicious food and decorate the most beautiful Christmas tree. And then they get unexpected guests.
When filmmaker Signe Barvil Stæhr was just five years old, her mother died unexpectedly in the middle of the night. Signe remembers only very little from that time in the late 1980s, and her father doesn't like to talk about it. In order to fill in the many gaps, she contacts the several nannies who helped out in their household the following years. It turns out that they all remember things in their own way. 'The Nannies' is a performative documentary with plenty of creative energy driving a deeply personal project. The stories of the past are conjured up through tasteful reconstructions of life in the suburbs.
In a museum in Cyprus, ancient terracotta figures shaped like human beings bear witness to the ideas about the origin of life on earth that prevailed at the time. In severel ancient myths, clay contained the seed of life itself. In the future, the sculptures may be seen to herald a post-human condition where man-made life is a reality. Equipped with a home-made 3D camera, artist Amalie Smith has created a speculative multidisciplinary study of origin myths and the precursors of artificial life.
At the very tip of the boot that is Italy lies an olive grove. Here, a rich old lady who is almost 100 years old shares her luxurious villa from the 1970s with her large family. It is a voluminous world full of animals, people and antiques: the raw material of reality in all its chaotic might, which in 'The Garden of Calabria' speaks the language of the senses.
