Folket vågner til kamp

Folket vågner til kamp 2007

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1943-1945. More and more Danes resist the occupying forces, and the policy of collaboration collapses.

2007

Insert Song

Insert Song 2023

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A single-note score indicates the open and horizontal structure of Kamil Dossar’s abstract audiovisual arrangement of image, sound, objects and bodies.

2023

90 Timer

90 Timer 2022

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Shortly after robbing a gas station along with his group of friends, our main character, David, gets caught by the police. Luckily for him, he gets off with only 90 hours of community service, which he serves at a local church.

2022

Dear Me, A Letter to My Younger Self

Dear Me, A Letter to My Younger Self 2022

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Editorial, poetic and kind, Stella’s aim for the film is that the queer community sees it and immediately knows that “this was made with love, not with the usual ‘once a year rainbow’ vibe”. At its core, the film makes space for multiplicity: “As a queer director myself, I really wanted to strike the balance between telling true queer stories, which are sometimes sad and sometimes happy.” The intergenerational cast was asked to write a letter to their younger/older self. A selection of quotes acts as the collective voice of the film.

2022

Ms. Hansen & the Bad Companions

Ms. Hansen & the Bad Companions 2023

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They are the ones the others are not allowed to play with. But 80-year-old Inger nonetheless gives a home and some much-needed love to the misfits she invites to live in her big mess of a villa in a small town somewhere in Denmark. Some of them have lived there for years, while others drop by for a brief mention and have moved on before anyone found out what they were even called. Abuse and mental illness are an important part of the story, but not the whole story. For Inger insists that there is good in all people and that the most important thing is to learn to love ourselves. But when Inger suddenly falls ill herself, the guests in her self-designed microcosm must learn to send some of the love and care the other way. Director Jella Bethmann paints a vivid and ultimately life-affirming portrait of ‘bad company’ in a film that gives space to some of the people who don’t fit into society’s conformist puzzle of norms and frames.

2023