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Browse through the detailed list of the screening films of the 1st Copenhagen Film Festival!
5 Ways 2 Die
Makis explores different ways of death, struggling to achieve the most ideal result.
Daina Papadaki
A Gravame : The Burden (A Gravame – Maria e le Madri di Tamburi)
There are many forgotten stories. This is one of them. This story is connected to our poverty and our wealth. To the rise and fall of capitalism. To the benefits of industrialization and the price we all have to pay. And there are forgotten people. Many of them, people like us, have been betrayed and deceived. ‘A Gravame’/’The Burden’ is the title of the funeral march which opens the famous Good Friday Procession in the southern Italian town of Taranto. Taranto was once an important Mediterranean city whose huge mussel cultivation dates back to ancient times. The Greeks, the Romans, the Spanish settled here because of the beautiful natural harbour. Today, the inhabitants of Taranto breathe 2.7 tonnes of carbon monoxide and 57, 7 tons of carbon dioxide every year. The dioxin in the air is supposed to be responsible for the high incidence of leukaemia and lymphoma. For the sake of profit, environmental legislation has been ignored for more than 20 years. The company, the city, politicians, the government – they’re all partners in crime. The film blends personal stories with observations from the city in the pre-Easter time. We take part in the orchestra rehearsals and follow the Good Friday procession. Over the course of 12 hours the procession brings together workers, fishermen, families, widows, lay brothers and musicians to accompany the Mother of God, Our Lady of Sorrows through the night of Taranto. There are political problems we prefer to look away. But we will not come off. There is no way to cheat death.
Peter Rippl
Agen
Agen is a popular medicine healer who collects most of his remedies in the forests of Yunnan, a province in Southeast China famous for its diverse ethnicities and medicinal herbs. After collecting and gathering what he needs, he goes to all regional markets and sells his remedies to all those willing to believe his claims.
Ivo Hardies
Agrinoui (Αγρινούι)
A young mare visits Cyprus to take part in races. Frustrated from failure, she abandons the racetrack after confronting her strict father. The mare will meet new friends who will try to help her find her lost courage.
Alexis Chaviaras
Arms Of The Infinite
A music video for Danish band KENTAUR – a visual journey into the state of meditation. A place far away from our consciousness where a man travels through calm, unrest and into nirvana.
Christina Amundsen
Art Connect
Art Connect is a feature length documentary that reveals the impact that art and creativity had in a group of 'at risk' teenagers from Laventille, the most marred by violence community in Trinidad and Tobago. The story is told by these children who had access to different forms of art to express themselves. By talking, painting, singing, dancing and filming they will allow us to come into their world.
Miquel Galofre
Atlantic
Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor BRENDAN GLEESON, Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities – in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland – as they struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. As the oil majors drive deeper into their fragile seas, and the world’s largest fishing companies push fish stocks to the brink, coastal people and the species they rely on may be reaching a point of no return. Filmed in some of the most remote and breathtaking locations in the North Atlantic, and at close quarters with some of the sea’s most captivating characters, Atlantic will bring the very personal stories in the vital resource debate to the fore, exploring how three modern day communities must learn from the past, in order to secure a brighter future.
Risteard O'Domhnaill
Blockbuster – A Life in Moving Pictures
This is the life story of Vlado, born behind the Iron Curtain in Kuřim, in the former Czechoslovakia. When he is 12 years old his parents decide to move to Vienna. What follows is the discovery of a whole new world, the world of movies. Soon young Vlado’s passion for films results in his own short films. And from the beginning at the back of his mind, the desire to someday make a feature film …
Vlado Priborsky
BOODY: The Sumo Pharao
BOODY, known by his wrestling name ''Osunaarashi'' (The Great Sand Storm), is the first Sumo wrestler of his kind ever to make it to the professional Sumo world in Japan. He is celebrated for being one of the most noted, strong wrestlers in the top Sumo ranks. The documentary brings out BOODY's journey from ''Al-Bagalt'', the small village in the country side of Egypt where he grew up, all the way to Tokyo right into the one-of-a-kind professional Sumo world.
Sarah Riad
Boris In The Forest
A black comedy about a Californian geek in search of his horror hero Boris Karloff.
Robert Hackett
Born in Heinola
A story of four Finnish boys growing up during the devastating 90's recession. They live in the small, timber industrial town of Heinola. As the parents of these young teens struggle through hard economic times, the four very different guys meet by coincidence to form the punk band Apulanta (fertilizer). Nowadays Apulanta is one of the most famous bands in Finland.
Tuukka Temonen
Bulkland
In Yiwu, the world’s largest market fills the shelves of discount chains around the world with electric Santa dolls, copies of Kate Middleton’s engagement ring and ear-wrecking vuvuzelas. Meanwhile, day labourers gather by the thousands in a human market and families have their children help make the zippers that might end up on your fake Chinese purse. But the recipe for success isn’t working anymore. China is getting more expensive to live in, and its army of migrant workers require higher wages to make ends meet.
Daniel J Whelan
Capsule
1959: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space, suffering Hypoxia, with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Tyuratam deep in Soviet Russia. Can he get home? Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?
Andrew Martin
CHARLIE
A teaser trailer for the British crime/drama tv series. When good girl CHARLIE is fired from her massage therapist job in a London stock brokers office, a mysterious stranger is there to make her a very interesting offer. With the pressure of supporting her family, an unfriendly Loan sharks knocking at the door, will this be enough to make this good girl go bad?
Laura Hypponen
Chasing The First Time
Dominique Auxila Frugaard
City of Terror
City of Terror is the story of one of the longest sieges of World War Two. In Budapest, Hungary 100 thousand German and Hungarian troops held up a force twice as strong comprising two Soviet Fronts, for 108 days between October 1944 and February 1945. Half of this time the defenders fought completely encircled by the mighty Red Army. Budapest was so important politically and strategically for Adolf Hitler that he sent the last reserves of his elite SS panzer divisions to relieve Budapest when the Soviet tanks were just 60 kilometers from the capital of the Third Reich. The battle for Vienna took 6 days. Berlin fell in 14 days. In Stalingrad larger forces clashed but the civilians had been evacuated before the battle. In Budapest 1 million civilians did not have a chance to escape the war. And while the siege was raging, the Hungarian fascists were murdering the city’s Jews. Our film tells the personal stories of two Hungarian soldiers and a Jewish boy. Other witnesses, soldiers and civilians add their own accounts to their stories while experts put these testimonies into context.
Tamás Babos
Closer to Maarten
It is 1999 when Dutchman Maarten de Bruijn, still in his twenties, decides to make a journey through India. At first, everything seems to go well, as he sends letters on a regular basis in which he writes enthusiastically about India and the things he is experiencing along the way. But after three letters, the writing stops and his family fears the worst. Not without reason, because they have never heard from Maarten again. Until this day, he is still missing. Maarten’s younger brother Hein never came to terms with this and 15 years after Maarten’s last sign of life, he decides to make the same journey as his beloved brother did in 1999. To find closure to this tragic situation and to find peace with his brother’s faith. Guided by Maarten’s letters, he follows the same track as his brother did years earlier. His father, who already was in India in 2000 to search for Maarten, accompanies his son. But shortly before departure, a young woman called Anika gets in contact with Hein. She has met Maarten in India and so she knew him in the last days before he disappeared. She tells Hein that Maarten stayed in a small mountain village, deeply set in the Himalayas. This information learns that father Jaap searched in the wrong places 15 years earlier. Also, this Anika has a photo of Maarten, not known to the family before. In India, Hein and father Jaap have many conversations about Maarten. About who he was, about what could have happened, about the question wether anybody is to blame for his disappearance and about how to face your anger about this. After the first part of their trip through Rajasthan, Hein and Jaap are accompanied by Hein’s other brother Jaap jr. The three of them travel to Himachal Pradesh, in the north of the country, the area where Maarten had given his last sign of life. In everything, Jaap jr. is the contrary of Hein, rational in stead of emotional and in fact only in India to support his father, who makes this journey for the second time with all the grief that comes with it. At the foot of the Himalayas, they get help from the local guide Negi, who is specialised in rescue missions and searches for disappeared people. With him, Hein, his father and his brother visit the remote mountain village of Pulga, where Maarten was seen for the last time by Anika. The photo that she gave Hein is possibly an important clue during the search. Slowly, a gap occurs between Hein and his father, because Jaap notices that Hein is not finding the peace that he longs for. On the contrary, Hein is getting further away from his missing brother than ever beforre. For Hein to find closure and peace with the situation, seems almost impossible.
Raymond Grimbergen
Concealed
Max, a struggling actor living in South Africa, has flown into Sydney, Australia for the audition of his life. As soon as he lands things start to go horribly wrong when his girlfriend Sallie disappears. Frustrated with the police’s lack of progress in finding her, Max embarks on a desperate search with the help of childhood friend Richard. The pair’s search pushes them to both external and internal extremities in their desperate plight to find Sallie.
SHANE T. HALL
Crime & Punishment
When a desperate and disillusioned PhD student commits premeditated murder in the name of a theory, he finds that his soul can only be saved through the love of a religious prostitute. But will he confess in time or will the cunning police investigator ruin his chance at salvation?
Andrew O'Keefe
Djinns, the Spirits of Patras
At the heart of a factory in ruins, facing the port in Patras in Greece. Wahid and Morteza, among fifty other Afghans who have escaped the atrocities of their country, try their luck to get to Italy in hopes of a better life in Europe. While waiting, they hide from a repressive police force and confront the Djinns, the spirits that haunt this old abandoned factory.
jean-jacques cunnac
Dryland
Reeling in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide attempt, a young swimmer works through her trauma in the water while desperately trying to break the wall of silence at home.
Liv Prior Colliander
Elijah’s Ashes
Lawrence Shaw is a run of the mill guy who just can't get accepted for being who he is. He's not straight enough for his job where he sells testosterone fueled ad campaigns to beer companies and he's not stereotypically gay enough for his boyfriend. To make things worse, his father Elijah just died and his last dying wish was for Lawrence to go on a road trip with his extremely homophobic half-brother Kevin to bury his ashes. It's a heroically dumb journey of brotherly love and acceptance that begs the age old question… Can you truly accept someone else when you can't even accept yourself?
Ryan Barton-Grimley
Eriko, Pretended
Ten years have gone by since Eriko moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. However, things haven’t gone like she expected, and for Eriko, there was no hope in sight. She receives the news about her older sister’s sudden death. Eriko returns home to attend her sister’s funeral and barely manages to deliver a eulogy. Her relatives question Eriko’s pretend life as a successful actress. On a whim, Eriko declares that she will take care of Kazuma, her sister’s 10 year old son, while finding out that her sister worked as a mourner-for-hire at funerals.
Akiyo Fujimura
Everything Plays The Part, Nothing Is
Emerged from sea, the metamorphosis is complete once the characteristic sailor’s hat is on. But as the great film artist sits down by the typewriter, the writer’s cramp hits him like a sledgehammer. While taking a walk in the woods to reduce his anxiety, a familiar monologue rises towards the sky like a butterfly and a young actress stands in the small grove. Has the playwright found his muse?
Johan Skantze
FIGHTING TO WIN
The life, struggle and challenges of one the world’s best MMA coach to overcome obstacles and fight for the podium. Andre Pederneiras leads a successful team called Nova União. The lives of his fighters follow similar stories: childhood poverty, abandonment and starvation. Pederneiras is not only a coach but also a father for these men who come from all over the country to fight, win and hopefully change their destinies. The film reveals the determined coach mentoring Jose Aldo, Renan Barão, Eduardo Dantas and other fearless champions confronting arduous physical and mental challenges to become champions.
Leandro Lima
Good Business
A man's fight to build an ethical company in an immoral country. The true story of Raymond Ackerman's commitment to grow Pick n Pay retail chain- birthed during South Africa's apartheid regime and coming of age in the country's freedom.
Robert Schermbrucker
HeavenKid
ToTo by accident opened a device that transformed a chessboard into a Space Door. So, he and Ahya could become anything they wanted, going anywhere they wished. They fought with each other while playing out many different roles. This means they would be locked within, unable to escape. HeavenKid used his magic to awaken them teaching them the book Di-Zi-Gui. Finally, they having learnt their wrongs, corrected their ways, averting the crisis. (mov)
Derrick, Yung-Te, Wu
Hell on Neptune
When the teenage son of a retired Army Ranger turns a blue-laser telescope into a ray gun, all hell breaks loose forcing the family to flee. The FBI want it and will use rendition to get it. An Army General wants it but must contend with the boy's father who he knows all too well. The local Police Chief wants it to settle an old score. And SETI wants it because they think the teenager found alien life, which he did. But what everyone doesn't realize , this family is armed with a moral compass that's far more powerful than any gun. And Dad shows his sons how to use it from one end of the country to the other.
Help Im trapped in a movie
A man wakes up to find himself the star of a Hollywood blockbuster, but his dream soon becomes a nightmare when he discovers he can't control the plot.
Riley Madincea
HULDRA – Lady of the Forest
Nanna lives a lonely and regimented life in Berlin. When her life crashes she receives a phone call from her long lost love, Martin, who reminds her of their carefree childhood. Martin wants her to join him for a hike in the wilderness together with some of their mutual childhood friends. One of them, Peter (The Swede), has been told of a strange hermitic hippie-like society out in the Swedish wilderness and the group set off on an adventure unaware of the fact that once they reach their destination nothing will ever be the same again. As they are drawn deeper and deeper into the forest mysterious events start to unsettle the dynamics of the group. Reality begins to shift in ways none of them could have imagined and relations between the friends become strained and volatile. They had come looking for adventure, but nothing could have prepared them for what lies in wait…
Ove Valeskog
Hummus! the Movie
An eclectic, touching film about hummus, the delicious super food sweeping across Europe and America. Secret recipes, a Guinness World Record and the power of hummus to bring Muslims, Christians and Jews together – in the Middle East, America and around the world.
Oren Rosenfeld
In the Voodoo Parlour of Marie Laveau
Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau faces a grievous threat from an unknown enemy determined to take her position — and her life. To overthrow the mystery rival, she creates the grandest, most arduous ritual journey of her life. But this journey takes unexpected turns to self-discovery, and reveal to Marie Laveau the real nature and the true source of her power.
Intrinsic Moral Evil
Intrinsic Moral Evil seems to be a tale of identity and coming of age. But above all, the three dancers play with the viewer’s perception and expectations. The layered story gradually develops; revealing its last secrets just before the end credits start. Inviting the audience to make its own interpretation.
Harm Weistra
Jewish Blind Date
Unhappy in love, Mary Lou decides to reconnect with her religious roots by marrying a practicing Jew. In order to get married, she has to pass the Shidduch test, which will determine whether her life will be a success or failure.
Anaelle Morf
Johnny Walker
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation. Inspired by Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground', Johnny Walker attempts to answer the burning question: Is living a long life vulgar, immoral or just plain bad manners?
Kris De Meester
Joker (Джокер)
The movie based on the stories of Anton Chekhov A young man wins her love, gains favour with her parents, but cannot find the courage to overcome the barrier of his own prejudices and thus falls into the clutches of a wicked blackmailer.
Alexander Kaurykh
Mandrake
Mandrake is a root who lives in his nature of underworld and with his special power makes green seeds. One day he come across with a wastes from world of human and Mandrake can’t use his power on that waste. After that he will look after how to save his world from pollution.
Ayberk Kaba, Sezen Çildir
Maxamba
With the demolition of Quinta da Vitória neighborhood (Lisbon. Portugal), our film aims to create a living archive of the history and memory of its inhabitants, as well as to mobilize an intervention in their representation in the city. The film is focused on the daily life of an older couple descendant of an Indian family, who emigrated from Mozambique, a former colony of Portugal, to Lisbon in the 1970s. The husband and wife both work out of their home in the neighborhood. As tailors, they both have a close relationship with the other inhabitants, and they are especially integrated into the Hindu community that lives in this neighborhood.
Suzanne Barnard , Sofia Borges
Meeting Fate
A movie with subtle yet powerful messages of duty, love and the deep bond of brotherhood, TEMUAN TAKDIR is the story of two dedicated police officer brothers, ASP Tuan Roslan and Inspector Shariff. They intelligently pursue the ‘Mastermind’ behind a security van heist. The investigation leads them to a three-man gang whose plans get rattled by a series of unexpected turns, as each has his own hidden agenda. As the police chase intensifies and the clues lead them closer to solving the crime of greed, the inevitable ‘Takdir’ or fate makes its call and each must meet it. TEMUAN TAKDIR is more than just a romantic or action movie; it gives viewers an insight into the lives of police officers who are vulnerable beneath their uniforms of ‘steel’.
Dhyan Vimal
Mood-Trailer WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HABIBI?
This teaser-trailer was made before the actual shooting for the crowdfunding campaign of the movie WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HABIBI? and shows the mood of the film but is stand alone project with different pictures and scenes than in the movie but telling its story in a simple way.
Tor Iben
Mousse
What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash. Mousse is a man of pride and principles and is fed up with living as a second-class citizen. But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?
John Hellberg
Munich ’72 and Beyond
On September 5, 1972, Palestinian extremists infiltrated the athletes’ dorms at the Munich Summer Olympics to take 11 Israeli athletes hostage and eventually murdered them all before being killed or captured by the German police. Award-winning filmmaker Stephen Crisman revisits that tragic day in chilling detail through new interviews with both Israelis and Palestinians, as well as family members, eyewitnesses, Olympic authorities and government officials. An intensely emotional account of the first act of modern terrorism viewed worldwide as it unfolded, Munich ’72 and Beyond exposes shocking new information about the tragic events and their devastating aftermath, as well as chronicling the four-decade-long struggle to create a public memorial to the victims of the massacre.
Stephen Crisman
My Life on the Tracks – the Rohan Vos Story
During the golden era of steam train travel, Rohan Vos started Rovos Rail with only 4 passengers on the first trip. Today Rovos Rail is hailed the most luxurious train in the world, travelling to some of the most exotic destinations in Africa. What is quite incredible is that for Rohan , the rail business was never intended to be, but before he knew it, the journey had begun … there was no turning back and no way out ! In 'My Life on the Tracks – The Rohan Vos Story' Rohan Vos tells his remarkable story in his own words, sharing some intimate and personal details in vivid detail never told before. Intimate interviews with family and employees add authenticity to this timeless piece of African rail history.
Deon van Zyl
Night Goes Long
French meteorology researcher Sophie, living in Antarctica, arrives in Helsinki to find her online lover Mia. Mia had ended the relationship suddenly and with meeting her, Sophie hopes to regrow the love between them. As a surprise Mia meets a young man Jusa at the MIa’s apartment. Jusa reveals crushing news: Mia is dead. Emotionally crushed Sophie wishes she had met Mia at least once and had experienced her life. Jusa promises to take Sophie exploring Mia’s world. So begins a magical journey through nightly Helsinki city on which Sophie sees different sides of her lost love and her city. Night Goes Long is inspired by a book “Little Prince”.
Vesa Kuosmanen, Henri Huttunen
Once Upon a Dream (M’aime pas en rêve)
When Valentin meets Ludivine, he is convinced she's the girl he has been dreaming of for the past weeks… Litteraly, the girl of his dreams ! Only, Ludivine has a feeling this boy meet girl scenario will take a nightmarish turn…
Anthony Nion
Painterbrain
Carsten thinks too much. Often naive attempts at fine art lead him down paths of self-destruction and crippling doubt. Over the years this pessimism has forced him into a career that many refuse. But after witnessing workplace violence, Carsten must defend a younger co-worker from their boss, Ronni, and find the energy to express himself, once again, through fine art.
Glenn Diehl
Peace March San Francisco
A Russian American woman with no prior experience in politics decides to take a stand and organize a political march in support of Ukraine. She depicts the background of the Ukrainian conflict and describes the fate of opposition in Russia.
Milla Spivey
Picking Up the Pieces
The film explores the perspectives of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors as they rebuilt their lives after the Second World War. Answering the question, “How do you “live” after surviving the Holocaust?” the film builds a nuanced and complex portrait of the survivors’ struggles through the lens of key universal questions about Belief in God, Forgiveness, Home, Jewish identity and Memory. Nine survivor’s voices are interwoven together and merge into a choral ensemble telling the previously untold story of the efforts of child survivors to build normal and productive lives from tragic beginnings. Child survivors are now the last living witnesses of the Holocaust. Their struggle, bittersweet reflections, hope and energy are poignant and uplifting testament to the human spirit.
Joshua Tebeau
Point Zero
Trying to escape from a claustrophobic family scene, Ênio, a 14-year-old boy, defies a stormy night that will lead to a brutal clash with destiny.
José Pedro Goulart
Quiet on Set
We're in a war-zone. The year must be 1940: World War 2. Soldiers are scattered in the snow: freezing, bleeding and dead. Suddenly we cut out: we're on a Norwegian film set in 2015. Quiet on set is a metafictional short film that deals with a romantic encounter at bottom of the film world ladder.
Petter Holmsen
Reborn Lost
The deep cover sleeper cell John Martin is activated to assassinate the man who is turning the tables of power on a corrupt society. But when he realizes he is carrying out a suicide mission he must choose: execute his final order or turn against the world’s most dangerous villain, the man who is pulling the strings from the shadows. Blinded by the pain of betrayal and thirsting for revenge, Martin hunts his omnipotent enemy only to discover he's not the only nemesis he must face…
Jan Hass
Scratch
A female rookie armoured truck guard is caught between her co-workers' plot to rob their own truck and greedy gangsters desperate to grab the loot.
Maninder Chana
Shadow of the Missing
Based on Actual Events. A group of comedians and young filmmakers go missing while exploring an abandoned church in Wales. With only the footage left behind to tell the tale, local residents and experts attempt to piece together what happened.
Jamie Lee Smith
Shift K3y x Born Dirty – Misbehave
Pierre-Joseph Secondi
Sonic Sea
Sonic Sea is a 60-minute documentary about the impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. It tells the story of Ken Balcomb, a former U.S. Navy officer who solved a tragic mystery involving a mass stranding of whales in the Bahamas, and changed the way we understand our impact on the ocean. In the darkness of the sea, whales depend on sound to mate, find food, migrate, raise their young and defend against predators. Over the last century, however, human activity has radically transformed the ocean’s delicate acoustic habitat, challenging the ability of whales and other marine life to prosper, and ultimately to survive. Sonic Sea offers solutions and hope for a quieter ocean, and underscores that the ocean’s destiny is inextricably bound with our own.
Michelle Dougherty, Daniel Hinerfeld
Such Gracious Smiles
Such gracious smiles is an 18-minute sequence shot. The smile distinguishes man from animals. Its execution requires a multitude of muscles that can mean anything and everything: The empathetic, seductive, victorious , mocking, sadistic smile …. A smile to coax, a smile as a weapon of mass destruction but also as a wound in the face. This marks the meeting of an awkward actress, a condescending director, three bossy shrinks who enjoy telling stories that end badly, a lecturer, an assistant with strange manners and a trio of singers on wheels accompanied by a children’s choir. This merry bunch create stories that intertwine and, through di erent narrative paths and performative actions, demonstrate the ambiguity of the smile. All the scenes take place in a single space that is constantly modulated by the changing set design. We watch as the sets shift, as layers are shrugged o liitle by little until the space becomes entirely empty.
Gabriel Desplanque
SUPERNATURAL
An old bullfighter is getting ready to fight his last bull. Some paths can only be taken alone and in silence. Supernatural is a journey to the Last Coast. An expedition without return. A road movie by interior states of consciousness: guilt, grief, dream, faith, loneliness, transcendence. The film is a dialogue on the shores of death. Nobody really knows what happens in each image. Time happens .
Juan Figueroa
The Big Flip-Stories from the Modern Home Front
The Big Flip is a documentary that explores the hidden struggles and triumphs of middle class American families who have “flipped” traditional gender roles—the wife wins the bread and the husband takes care of home and kids. Over 18 months, The Big Flip follows the lives of four “flipped” families as they navigate through major life changes—a birth, a lay-off, a cross-country move, and a mid-life crisis. With baby number 4 on the way, Bonnie and Chip (Portland, Oregon) are working through a delicate transition. Bonnie has been frustrated by how much she has to do at home while being the primary breadwinner. After much debate, Chip steps away from his flailing business to be the lead parent for his growing family. Chuck and Amy (Washington, D.C.) are comfortable with Amy as the main earner and Chuck supplementing. But when Chuck is laid off, the loss of income is keenly felt in this modest middle-class family. Julee and Ross (Nashville, Tennessee) see their flip as temporary while Ross launches his career as an actor. They are moving the family across the country to Los Angeles with high hopes for their opportunities in California. Fred and Robyn (Seattle, Washington) are stuck in a rut. They fell in love as young, carefree snowboarders. But 15 years and 2 kids later, Robyn feels trapped as the sole income provider. Meanwhile Fred, his professional snowboarding career over, struggles to find his role in the work force. The film interweaves these emotional stories with interviews of three experts to explore the broader trends behind the flip. In a society where the majority of Americans still believe kids are better off with mom at home instead of at work, and divorce is 40% more likely when the wife is the breadwinner, The Big Flip captures the guilt and resentment that plague big flip families. But while it’s not easy, the documentary shows middle class America benefits from this freedom of choice, that children are happy and thriving, and that love can endure in The Big Flip.
Isabella Vincent Chan
The Door To the Sun
The night inflects in growth and the days clean your face. You step through a door to the sunlight. There, not in the light of yours, you are leading the body, streaming with blood. There, you are a human being now, and you walk to find your time. – Michael Strunge, Danish poet. 2016
Julie Annlie
The Gallerist
Considering the current tech spiral that is being inflicted upon the city of San Francisco, one space Book and Job Gallery, headed by Carson Lancaster represents the former SF; the dark undercurrent, the repellant, erratic, mysterious, elements of San Francisco that are slowly dying. I met Carson 2 years ago in San Francisco on a photo journey for a danish company. I fell in love with his gallery and the insane neighborhood where he lived. I immediately wanted to document it! 2 years after I traveled to USA again to film him and did a piece about his philosophy on life.
jonas normann
The Keys – Music Video
Five years ago a young man met an ex-ballerina during the last month of his North American adventure. Little did he know, it was the start of a love story, which would change him, forever. Unfortunately, this romance was short-lived as they both traveled back to their homes, 10'000 miles apart. As he mourned, he felt the depths of his soul darkening beyond recovery. He felt as though he had lost a part of himself forever. What was he to do with his life now? Oliver Goldsmith says: «Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall» Despite this, he wasn’t alone. His family and friends gave him the strength to carry on and look forward. They became a pillar on which he could lean. Only one more thing made him feel better; made not of blood and bones, but wood and strings; The piano – when he played, he felt uplifted, his heart beating a little faster, tears running down his cheeks. He felt alive. Instrumental to his recovery, the piano became a companion. He bought one score, actually two, and started to play the first but never touched the second. Interpreting was not what he liked. He wanted to create beauty out of thin air & imagination. He realized he was destined to be a composer. Joe Hoster was born.
Sonia Benarab, Archie Thomas, Joe Hoster
The Kurds’ Moon Landing (3D)
Four young Kurdish men fled from the war in Syria and landed in a small village in the Vulcano Eifel in Germany. The 3D Documentary „THE KURDS’ MOON LANDING“ tells about their situation and their stories through documentary as well as fictional scenes. Alongside a reinactment of the old silent film classic „A Trip to the Moon“ by Georges Méliès, starring these four young men, the documentary shows their isolation, their longing for a home, their hope to be understood and their struggle with a seemingly hopeless reality.
Julian Bogenfeld
the other harmony (Harmonie der Anderen)
2005. Kaspar, a 17 year old student with wealthy parents, has to do a school assignment about homeless people. He decides to visit a group of homeless people himself, since he doesn't know where to find helpful information elsewhere. He meets April and Leano, two homeless teenagers, who show him their world full of apparent freedom. One night, the situation gets out of control and he has to make an important decision.
Franz Böhm
The Pineville Heist
A high school teen stumbles into the aftermath of a bank robbery gone wrong and finds himself locked inside his school trying to keep himself and his teacher alive as one of the psychotic robbers hunts them down.
Lee Chambers
The Player
The Player' is the story of a Ternana football player of the 80's and his sport life started at the San Michele field in Foggia. He trained his entire life to play the most important match of all: the one against himself.
Daniele Poli
The Samaritan
This exciting true story is set during the Cold War in Romania. A maverick lawyer helped bring reunification of an immigrant family in the midst of the Romanian Revolution. While human rights violations are at an all time high, the dictator has killed over 2 million people attacking people of all faith and every religion. This exciting feature length documentary is a multi plot film enhanced by drama, mystery, danger and love.
Kevin McAfee
The Sinking of Sozopol
One love, ten bottles of vodka and a town, who must go down. An aging man goes back to Sozopol and brings along his memories and ten bottles of vodka. It is clear that when the vodka is over, something must happen. Something that will change his life forever. Because when hope is gone, Miracle is the last resort.
Kostadin Bonev
The Surge
On November 8, 2013, super typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines. Known locally as Yolanda, it claimed over 7,000 lives and left 3,000 missing and millions homeless. While some regions were spared, the aftermath found the Filipino people bewildered and furious at their government's handling of the disaster. This is a story of a people's courage, their cry for justice and their hope for change in one of the world's most corrupt countries.
Wilfred Tangid
The Traveler
Piotr is a passenger on a night train. He falls in and out of sleep until his dreams start taking over reality on the night train and becomes nightmares. Piotr's longing for something else in life is put into words by a fellow passenger.
Franklin Symphor Henriksen
The World of Microfluidics: Microfluidics and Microbioreactor
This film is part of a triology made for the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen (DTU) within the frame of two scientific research programs founded by the European Commission aiming to provide an insight into the field of microfluidics for people outside of the scientific community. The film explains the core principles of microfluidics through a personification of its main components: enzymes and substrates as comic characters in a soccer like game. Microfluidics can be the basis for solving problems like having better rechargeable batteries, cleaner drinkable water, replacements for oil or can even lead to some improvements in the medical field to fight cancer more effectively.
Toby Mory, Nico Roicke
The Zahir
In this tongue-in-cheek magic realist thriller, a young academic tries to unravel the mystery of a British explorer's disappearance in 19th century India. His search results in encounters with a crazy physicist and an exotic female, which leads him to some other dimension.
Olga Holtz
Till We Meet Again
Lene hosts a high school reunion to relive her youth and find peace with her destiny. Should she have stayed with her high school sweetheart or made something out of herself?
NIkolaj Storgaard Mortensen
Together – Parallel Universe
This is a short film about the age old story of love. Our protagonist will go to any lengths to be with his love, even if it means building a space ship in his garage and traveling to different universes to find it.
Michael Robertson
Tonight Is The Night
A 12 year old boy escapes school to unleash his true passion.
Javier Chacártegui
Ukraine. Paralipomenon. A Chronicle of Omissions
In post-Maidan Kiev survivor’s guilt following the revolution. A strong patriotic spirit associate very different groups, including extreme right-wing paramilitary groups and drag queens at gay nightclubs. People in the Ukrainian capital petition the government to block an ‘undeclared war’ against the East. The city of Slavyansk is seen moments after it was liberated from Russian occupation. There are mass graves and some have land mines. The film also reveals the improper use of humanitarian aid and separatists hiding out in the city. Hong Kong is protesting against democracy restriction and the police is attacking protestants.
Yulia Matsiy
Wearing the Fog
‘Wearing the Fog’ is a double-screen video with a non-linear narrative structure. it circles around the cold of the industrial world and the indifference of a family. The video consists of multiple narratives that are told in a non-linear fashion. The different stories show what I fear and what I hate to see. The work focuses on a family living in a city whose industry is developing rather rapidly. Inside of the family, it is full of indifference, confrontation and estrangement. Due to the lack of administrative control, the air pollution is very serious in this city. In daily life, people have to communicate with each other through the obstruction of gauze mask and fog. This kind of interaction disrupts the possibility of real contact. I mix the feeling towards this severe reality and the understanding towards family life to show the gap between two generations, the estrangement between the father and the mother and the clash between individual and social development, all of which is enhanced and manifested through the use of double-screen.
Yafei Qi
What Jacques saw (Jacques a vu)
In their momentum for a neo-rural life in the Belgian Ardennes countryside, Brice and Lara soon have to face the imminent construction of a holiday resort nearby. A true race against time then starts for the young couple and revolves around Brice’s quirky cousin Jacques, a native from the village, prone to mystical visions that will eventually lead them all to the Vatican! First feature-lentgh try for the director, this provincial burlesque comedy, both tender and grotesque, depicts the Chapon-Laroche village microcosme and especially our endearing trio, which will inexorably undergo a series of surprising metamorphoses.
Xavier Diskeuve
Women Are The Answer
Population growth has been left out of the climate debate because it is seen as controversial, yet it is one of the most important factors. The global population has passed the 7 billion mark and India is overtaking China as the most populous nation in the world, but one state in southern India has found the solution. The unique history of Kerala and ‘the Kerala Model’ is outlined, using it as an example of achieving population control in developing countries without coercion.
Fiona Cochrane