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Browse through the detailed list of the screening films of the 2023 Copenhagen Film Festival!
A Fairy Tale
Apprentice filmmaker, Juan makes a documentary portrait of Coco, a thirty-something-year-old marginal. The film is quickly called into question when Juan discovers that Coco thinks she’s a fairy in a disenchanted society.
Zoé Arene
A Small Circle
The first 3 months of pregnancy are usually best kept secret. In these uncertain months anything can happen. But what if something happens? What if an early miscarriage brings the pregnancy that has just started to a sudden end? A Small Circle is a visual diary of the beginning and the end of a first pregnancy.
Sofia Ose
Bad Jew Good Girl
Alone in her apartment on Yom Kippur, Laurel sets out to make it through the day as a good Jew.
Annika Chavez
Deadline
Deadline is a black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly. At its center is a story of a brave friendship and solidarity between two senior ladies sickened by society's disregard and disrespect.
Idan Gilboa
Empty Rooms
After 24th February 2022, many people emigrated from Russia for various reasons. Among these people were my friends and lovers. In April, when I was completely alone in Moscow, I made a film about it. This film is my love letter to those people who can no longer be near me.
Zhenia Kazankina
Everybody Wants To Be Loved
A blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn't have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.
Katharina Woll
Fucked
As Ruben tries to settle with his boyfriend in their new house, he is confronted by his best friend Pia, who drags him back into a roller coaster ride through his old life with parties, drugs and quirky characters – a life that Ruben has tried to leave behind.
Peter Bjerre Salling
Gardez
Silvia Brockmann, the wife of a rich industrialist, is no longer considered by her husband. Fascinated by the sensual appearance of a young church attendant, she decides to bring a little joy into her dreary everyday life. She cleverly uses the unsuspecting and good faith pastor of the congregation to get the attention of the church attendant.
Julian Isfort
Going Well..
The deadline is approaching. Producer Park, who is in charge of closing, comes to the writer. The writer escapes to delusions and goes crazy due to the PD's pressure and stress of the deadline.
HyeJeong Lee
Killing Ourselves
Maya takes her parents and sister to the desert in order to film them for an additional scene in her film. But the day of filming turns into a never-ending family argument, and it becomes unclear whether they will even manage to cooperate and become a team.
Maya Yadlin
Kim
Kim is a devout Christian scientist who’s intent on spreading kindness to the world that touches her. While she lives with an imperative for doing good, her personal sense of right and wrong can put her at odds with others in her religious circle. These moments of conflict are formative flashpoints in her life, having dire consequences for her and those around her. While Kim always tries to stay true to her internal sense of logic and morality, external pressures can push her personal beliefs aside in the interest of satisfying the demands of her faith. Kim’s ultimate test comes when a life or death decision forces her to pick a path; her reason or her religion.
Brandon Danowski
Leon’s Fantasy Cut
Two first generation Ukrainian-American brothers George and Iggy know they are destined for great things. George is a wannabe business scion festering in a cell phone store. Igal is a small-time pot dealer and an aspiring Rap mogul. They are stuck together in a suffocating studio apartment in South Brooklyn and are constantly at each other’s throats. But they know that their situation has to be temporary– after all this is America. George meets Ella, a hipster transplant and sees her as his key to a life outside the neighborhood. Iggy is convinced that Yuriy, a promising rapper he is “managing,” will be his ticket to a life of luxury if he can just get his music to the right person. But both of them learn that their dreams are elusive and that unrealized ones can make a person lose their mind.
Josh Caras, Jonathan Valde
Let’s Forget It
When 30 year old Sarah becomes a mother she decides to break the omerta imposed by her father on her family's past. During the Algerian war, her grandfather fought with the French against the independence of his people. When France lost, the whole family escaped to Marseille… but there, instead of being welcomed, they were locked-up in a camp. This is where Sarah's journey begins…unveiling what France has tried to keep silent for decades.
Cecile Khindria, Vittorio Moroni
Low Tide
Mama Oh No driving as fast as possible observing the landscapes around them change as time goes by.
Simon Reinhardt
Ma Fatsh Leah
One voice, one piano is all that minimalist French outfit Madeleine & Salomon need to create their hypnotic version of MA FATSH LEAH, the single from their second album, Eastern Spring, which covers a choice selection from the repertoire of ‘60s/’70s Mediterranean folk-pop. Clotilde’s melancholic voice tells of a young woman tortured by the interminable wait for her lover in the emancipated Cairo of the 1970s, while the bewitching piano of Alexandre Saada conjures the buzz of a restless city that feeds the sweet madness of her hope, and ours with it. As soon as we have reached the end of this interior journey, we have but one desire: to start all over again.
Marion Auvin
Movers
Movers' is an exploration into the storytelling through movement: Five people were given prompts asking about specific, significant memories from their past. They were they asked to translate the experiences into movement. [Shot on Alexa Mini – Printed onto 16mm Film]
alec goldberg
My Body Is My Temple
The Dad Bods bring their big fitness unit to this hard-hitting music video, as they gracefully interpret the Testosterone-infused power ballad from Spandex the Musical.
Elizabeth Piccoli
Neurolink
In a near future, we meet Frida (22), who undergoes a brain implant – a Neurolink. The chip communicates with her in the form of a voice inside her head, helping her towards a happier life. For a while, she lives without worries as she unquestioningly follows the voice's advice. However, the voice begins to take more and more control. Eventually, the Neurolink app takes over Frida, and she no longer recognizes herself. In an attempt to regain control, Frida deletes the app. It turns out, however, not to be so easy. After a brief feeling of freedom, the voice returns, leading to a battle to permanently delete the chip.
Jens-Julius Grunderlund Dall
Nobody Meets Your Eyes
Louis Le Prince syndrome is a condition that makes a person invisible to the naked eye. Tuomas and Ninni, who suffer from the condition, can only be observed through cameras and microphones. Tuomas is a single parent, whose daughter is the only person in the world who can see him with her own eyes. Ninni, a young woman in an emerging online relationship, meets her crush for the first time in the real world, but even then they need a camera between them. Every year, millions of new invisibles are born. The cause is unknown.
Jesse Jalonen
Off-Season
A cameraman shoots picturesque videos for a TV production company. Wrecked by his lack of desire lost in the emptiness of a daily routine, he wanders alone through landscapes in search of the best view. A journey where the image becomes the main character of an existential quest.
Francescu Artily
Paula
At only fourteen years old, Paula hates her body. In an attempt to express what she feels, Paula creates a blog and becomes part of a large virtual community that shares her problems. Shelter in anonymity, she uploads content recorded with her cell phone, exposing her friends and family. The feeling of belonging blinds Paula, who begins to walk a lonely path in which bulimia and anorexia lurk as alternatives in the search for self-acceptance.
Florencia Wehbe
Riten.
An audition by the young violinist Anna at the conservatory followed by dinner. Julia's first evening at her old music college, this time in her new role as violin professor. Julia observes how self-righteous society behaves and how patterns of power demonstrations are repeated. Different understandings of the past full of anger, trauma and hurt collide until Julia can't keep still.
Hannah-Lisa Paul
Sarajevo Safari
Among the many dramatic episodes of the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996, the story of a human safari has remained concealed from the public eye. Only a select few were aware that on the Serbian side, the siege of Sarajevo involved not only the Bosnian Serb Army, volunteers and mercenaries but also another, small and clandestine group. These were wealthy foreigners who paid high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents of besieged Sarajevo.
Miran Zupanič
Seascape
Actress Judith is invited by young aspiring director Ferdinand to shoot a film on the Atlantic coast of southern France. But even during the first shooting attempts, it becomes apparent that Ferdinand's perfectionist vision is difficult to realize. Over time, an unseen force begins to slowly unravel the film, like Ferdinand's nostalgically transfigured dream. What remains is a flood of images that increasingly lose their meaning. Judith finds herself confronted with the invisible force and with Ferdinand's urge to want to control everything around her, and she rebels.
Maximilian Wigger
Short Draft
A man hijacks a taxi when the taxi driver refuses to take him where he wants. Two men will share a ride where everything will go wrong and a girl will change their way, where the end will be a mystery even for the heroes of Short Draft
Spyridon Papaspyrou
Short Stay, Long Stay
Two men work in rival car parks in a city that's quickly changing around them. They learn the news that their jobs no longer exist, and have one final week to say a proper goodbye.
Danny Carter
Spag Bol
Following a double homicide, two crime scene cleaners find themselves entangled in an unlikely romance. Who said romance is dead.
BRICK
Swollen
A female MMA fighter struggles to introduce her boyfriend into her brutal world.
Daniel Aranha Pedersen
The Beast Within Me Is A Child
Do we ever become adults? If so, when? Regardless of where we are in life, the question seems to remain unanswerable. We improvise and take risks, and yet we never seem to reach a goal. Even with the work we put in to meet expectations, especially our own, that gnawing feeling of inadequacy persists. Perhaps we never lose our inner child, but rather become blind to its whims, both good and bad. Maybe growing up is about befriending and reconciling with that child, rather than searching to control it. Could it be that the inner child we all have is what binds us all together?
Mai Alneng
The Best Ham Sandwich According to a Fish
Overwhelmed by the sheer number of frozen ham sandwich options at a grocery store? Maybe listen to a fish!
Jessica Xu
The Chromakey Man
Dan always wanted to be an actor, but instead of achieving his dreams, he ends up a chromakey technician on movie sets. Covered in a bright green suit from head to toe, he is stuck in a rut until he gets offered an audition and the possibility to step into the limelight. The opportunity is potentially life-changing, and this absolutely terrifies him.
William Samaha
The End of the World
Jitka and Jaromir, a married couple in their seventies, live their routine-filled day-to-day life while constantly getting on each other's nerves. Upon hearing on the radio that the end of the world is coming, they start working together to get ready for the apocalypse. When the day finally comes, they have to deal with a surprising twist of events, which ends up being a beginning of a new, unexpected adventure.
Aleksandra Podziewska
The Great Connection
As a fiber optic cable suddenly appears at the bottom of the ocean the mythological creatures gather to debate: Will this be their salvation? Or will the teeth of this thing cause nothing but tears?
Christen Bach
The Honey Movie
A man’s journey to show the true value of honey and its purpose for humanity. The film follows the hero for 30 days, thru 6 different countries, eating only honey for the entire duration of filming. It explores how different cultures relate to this product, how they cultivate it and dispels the myth that honey and sugar are the same. From the tribes of Ethiopia, to the modern European techniques, the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, and the jungles of Java – the film unravels how much work a jar of honey really contains, the importance of bees, and how miraculous this product really is.
Sasha Nikitin
The Pigeon of Waterloo
The Pigeon of Waterloo is a 15-minute short film that tells the story of Kirk, a man who wears a pigeon mask to escape from reality while finding his true identity. We follow Kirk throughout the day when he reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, Macy. He realises how others, including his child, perceive him and what he must do to accept himself. Both characters are in different stages of their lives yet they are both lost in a complicated, fast-moving world. They find themselves in a similar situation where they struggle to discover who they truly are. Starring BAFTA nominee David Carlyle and Evangeline Rose.
Margaux Comte
The Rehearsal
Liam and Elea share the stage in a play about the incestuous love of a brother and sister. The film follows Liam's fall into a spiral of violence instigated by a tyrannical director. The two actors confront the psychological violence of a director who will do anything to make an authentic work of art. Pushed to the limit in order to gain recognition from this man, Liam plunges into this quest for a character where his memories are lost between reality and fiction.
Antonin Chalon
The Street Is Tough
The catcalling is one of the most normalized forms of sexist violence. Even so, it invades the space, attacks, limits freedom and gives way to more violent expressions: obscene gestures, invasive glances, groping, masturbation and persecution. From the Amorfiesta project comes this animated short that portrays how a group of Panamanian women experience and perceive street harassment.
María Victoria Henríquez Vergara
The Taster
The Danube Delta, Romania. Near future. The young Romanian Ozana is chosen to work as the new taster girl for the occupying forces. But already on her first day of work she breaks the most important rule – never look the leader in the eye. Soon Ozana finds herself face to face with the unpredictable man who is occupying her country. All alone.
Sophia Bierend
Time Traveling Through Time
A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control. Narrated by Julian Richings (The Witch; X-Men; The Umbrella Academy) and starring Skyler Caleb (The Office, Two and a Half Men). Meow!
Ryan Ward
Victorian Queens
Influenced by the 1990 cult documentary Paris Is Burning, Victorian Queens explores the significance of Naarm's queer geographies and the drag queens who rule them.
Joseph Gardner, Andrew Cox
What We Make
A young man attempts to juggle the skeletons in his closet with his personal creative ambitions.
Alex Frecon