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Browse through the detailed list of the screening films of the 7th Copenhagen Film Festival!
A full life, I suppose.
A full life, I suppose is a filmic portrait of the time shared between the filmmaker and his mother, Androulla, combining new 16mm material shot during his recurring visits to Cyprus with Super 8mm footage shot by his father in the 1970s to chronicle the evolution of bodies and the desires that mark a life. Attempting to balance between observation and construction, the film captures dailiness and domesticity while transfiguring Androulla’s body and inhabited space through close-ups, double exposures and time-lapses. As segments of conversations between filmmaker and mother about her life wander mostly sync-free over the images, encounters with light and darkness in the nooks and furnishings of her otherwise ordinary dwelling arouse a sense of unreality.
Alexandros Pissourios
Aquari
NANNA (20s) and MARTA (20s) have been best friends since high school and for just as long, Nanna has been secretly in love with Marta. One night as they visit Marta’s childhood home, an opportunity arises as Marta comes on to Nanna and wants to be with her. But will Nanna dare to seize the chance and potentially put their friendship and her heart on the line?
Leo Clara Mendes
Banned Book Club
A group of high school students fight to return banned books to classroom shelves in central Texas.
Sinead McHugh Keirans
Bug Sex
Male black widow spiders will offer themselves up to females as a complimentary post-coital meal. If fruit flies can’t have sex, they get drunk. And a cricket species in Hawaii has undergone the fastest evolutionary adaptation (to their mating call, nonetheless) known to science.cThere are ten quintillion bugs on earth, and they all need to have sex in order for their genes to move on to another generation. BUG SEX takes us into the bizarre world of how bugs do it — everything from sperm packets to sexual cannibalism. In this film, we gain firsthand insights into the fascinating journey of evolution. It offers us a unique opportunity to peer into an alternate world, one that surrounds us every day, yet remains largely shrouded in mystery. Despite our proximity to this world, our understanding of it remains surprisingly limited.
Andrew Gregg
Cabaret Spectacular
Praised by The New Yorker as a secret weapon of independent cinema, Theodore Bouloukos stars in CABARET SPECTACULAR, a buoyant 16mm portrait of daiquiri dreams and Caribbean sunbeams. At a vibrant resort, an endearingly fussy bachelor in the twilight of his life fumbles his way through poker tournaments and eccentric tropical nights in a relentless quest for love.
Thomas Meyer
Getaways & Dreams
During one summer day on a highway, the fates of nine people, a runaway dog and a mysterious hitchhiker intersect with irreversible consequences. Two sisters argue on their way to the airport, because one is moving to Colombia. A married couple mourn the anniversary of their dead daughter. A comedy duo prepare for their first gig in a long while, two paramedics are looking forward to an upcoming quiz night, and a widow is finally ready to scatter the ashes of her deceased wife in a lake. Getaways & Dreams is a whimsical, lifelike, theatrical fantasy that breaks genre boundaries and celebrates life by reminding us of death.
Kaisa El Ramly
Half-witted Gnus Are A Myth
A bizarre protest film about daily diversity of opinion in a world full of paradoxes. Dystopian messages are coming from the smoke-filled radio studio. On the street, resistance takes its course. Advertisers discuss ways of spelling prosperity and equality. Men experience freedom under the hijab . The livestream from the desert broadcasts endlessly and the giraffe is silent at the end.
Marie-Anne Hafner
Harvest/Hex
Harvest/Hex is a contemporary tale of survival told as an observation of place. The choreography of cars is central to the film’s rhythmic composition. It is a visual incantation; a naturalistic portrait of a hybrid American experience unfolding as a continuous space. The story of twentieth-century American migration, as told in John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, correlates with the contemporary reality of an otherwise unremarkable American town transformed into a beacon of short-term prosperity through the hi-tech extraction of oil. The temporary encampments outside the petroleum plant symbolize an unapologetic wish for a new beginning. Just as the little farmhouse that stands against the apocalyptic Kansas winds and the thunder of the cars punctuate a game of survival. This is the collected tableau in which Harvest/Hex resides. These scenarios function together as an open system, like expanded photographs and oblique records of a place and time.
Leif Huron
He’s The One
Aaron and his best friend Raya head on a night out to their regular queer bar that Aaron often DJs at. While there, Aaron meets the man of his dreams, Connor. It's love at first sight for Aaron. Swept away and blinded by his attraction, Aaron ignores all of Connor's red flags, as his romantic attraction transforms into a Hollywood-style dream ballet depicting the spontaneous date night the evening has become. When Connor confronts Aaron with the biggest red flag of all – that he already has a boyfriend – Aaron is forced to face the reality of what his night has been.
Lewis Simpson
In Between
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for over a year. The 21-year-old Ira, along with her mother, finds herself in a foreign Germany, cut off from her home, family, and friends, seeking solace. After many doubts, she resolves to breathe new life into her neglected passion for swimming. That leads to an encounter with an old friend with whom she openly discusses her struggles and thoughts for the first time. In Between explores the sentiments and the emotional state of refugees, providing an intimate glimpse into their lives.
Ilja Kislitsyn
Itu Ninu
In the not-so-distant future of 2084, Ángel finds himself trapped as a climate migrant in an unspecified smart city, under constant surveillance. Amidst a bleak and oppressive existence, Ángel makes a living by cultivating plants, preserving the fading wisdom of seeds. Within this desolate landscape he crosses paths with Sofia, another climate migrant who works at a recycling facility. Fate intertwines their lives when a chance encounter reveals an unexpected connection: a shared language. Fueling Ángel's longing for human connection and a glimmer of hope, he reaches out to Sofia. Aware of the omnipresent digital monitoring, Ángel decides to communicate with her through the timeless medium of pen and paper, fostering an intimate, clandestine bond. As their secret correspondence unfolds, a friendship grows between Ángel and Sofia as does their desire for liberation from excessive control.
Itandehui Jansen
Kevin
Rachel and Kevin meet at a park in Los Angeles where they not only talk about relationships, but also try to enact specific couple situations.
Julian Rabus
La Colonial
La Colonial is located in one of the oldest working-class neighborhoods in Mexico City. Today, it shelters a community of men, who, faced with the adversity and marginalization of contemporary society, have build a home within themselves.
David Buitrón Fernández
Lakna – Solo de Sax
Mixed identity is assimilated to a refusal to take a position in the imagination collective. Are we black? Are we white? How to discern it? Which element will tip the scales? Throughout her musical journey, Lakna has often faced the difficulty to be a spacer. How to define music with opposing inspirations? In response to these tensions, she decided to produce two EPs which will form a project. It will be between soul and French song. There you will find the questions of a mixed-race life in a two-speed Switzerland.
Luca Perrin
Les Microbes
Les Microbes is a film with a special background that emerged in the context of S27, an Arts and Education institution in Berlin. Under the direction of Matze Görig, artists worked with young refugees from several countries to develop a miniature film set by using bulky waste, discarded and found objects, and 3D printed elements. Some participants came for a few hours, others stayed for several months as a core team. The initial goal was to recreate places that were familiar to everyone: a bus stop, a factory, a train, a mountain. During the building process, other places from the participants' stories were added through sharing, such as a town square where someone had been shot for no reason. The resulting models were then filmed in a studiosituation they had set up themselves – and in post-production, the stories of the young makers and the AI-generated images were combined in an experimental way. In melancholy, dark scenes, surrounded by a dense soundscape and accompanied by the poem les microbes by participant Gauthier Kollo, who came to the studio one day, the film reflects the situation of many of the participants at that time: persevering, waiting. Having to wait again and again in order to take the next step forward. Waiting while the world outside is flourishing and exploding.
Matze Görig
Lucienne in a World without Solitude
In a world without solitude, where everyone shares their life with their double, Lucienne has a relationship with Paul, a former lover who has lost his twin. While she desires his love, Paul only wants to find his brother. Individualism and exclusive relationships are not tolerated in this world which increasingly inspires Lucienne disgust. Her desire takes her away from her sister and probably from this man.
Geordy Couturiau
Lurker
A livestreamer ends up in a life threatening situation, when he realises that the creepy user in the chat, is now inside of his apartment.
Sebastian Sørensen
Medicine
When Marjorie and Jack offer their help to a passenger and things take an unexpected turn, one wonders who was actually helping who.
William Amos McKegg
Meetings of Love
Meetings of Love” is an absurd and tragicomic story about a young flower delivery guy who cannot find the right owner for a bouquet of flowers.
Jakob Korsholm Borum
Off-Pudding
Christian is a gentleman with modern values. But his self image is challenged at the office christmas party, when he learns that his colleague Line recently became single. And not only that, his colleague Oliver, a real alpha male, plans to make a move on her. When the traditional contest of finding the almond in the rice pudding is revealed to have an extravagant prize, the two men see an opportunity to impress Line. But is all fair in love, war and traditional Danish Christmas desserts?
Tjelle Vejrup
Redundant
An unemployed animated character stars in his very own documentary interview.
David Hubbard
Remembering the Future
Remembering the Future follows the work of a group of restorers and academics who are working to repair and restore cultural artefacts through the preservation of the cultural heritage that was damaged during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Havvanur Korkut
Seminal Animals
North Africa, near future, a number of extremely violent sexual assaults causes a massive public outcry and a radical shift in the political landscape. A new law is passed installing a curfew for women. After 9PM, any crime committed on women is no longer punishable by law. At night, gangs of teenagers roam the streets, hunting for prey. Every morning Samira, a single mother, has to commute across the city to get to work. Every evening she has to make sure she’s back home before the curfew. Her son Nabil starts to hang out with one of the gangs, and gets drawn in by their ruthless leader who becomes a father figure. One night, she ends up alone in the streets after the curfew. A race for survival begins for Samira to make it home.
Karim Souissi
Sirin
SANELA, a Montenegrin of Muslim origins, left former Yugoslavia in the 90’ during wartime, after her father was kidnapped on a train and murdered alongside other Muslims. At only 18, she went to USA and did everything she could to adapt herself to life abroad and live like a true Westerner. Wanting to avoid any impression of foreignness, she even changed her name, becoming NATHALIE. She became a lawyer at almost 40. Her boss, VALERIE, is now dealing with a particular inheritance case: the deceased, a spinster who came from the Balkans but had been living in the US for the past forty years, bequeathed an amount of money to the Orthodox Church of her hometown, for them to build a chapel in her name. Valerie is having some problems with the beneficiary of the testament, she therefore asks Nathalie to come with her and assist her as an interpreter. Sanela returns to a country that she can no longer recognise, torn between her new Westerner identity and the one she erased.
Senad Šahmanović
Sprout
Emerging excitement, a dancing body, and the sensual awakening of sexuality turn this experimental animation film by Florian Maubach into the nucleus of a transformation process. SPROUT is a stimulating short film that pushes boundaries but doesn't solely focus on the pleasure event. It's a metaphorically charged short film that allows an important look behind the curtain of male sexuality and relationships.
Florian Maubach
Sundayman – Go
Having experienced an infinite amount of days, sitting in back seats, observing our parents through rear view mirrors, we felt the need to tell this story as if for once, we were them. This is a story based on real life. Our own lives. Carelessly cruising the greek countryside and island roads while trying to glimpse into the psychological world of our parents. Unaware but yet fully immersed in their universe. This is the story of our mothers, that so well managed to gatekeep their own trauma from us, raising a shield of love and affection around through thick and thin.
Giannis Gripeos (Danny & Loco)
Tennis, Oranges
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.
Sean Pecknold
The Ballad
A fed up delivery worker chooses a split second act of rebellion – one that results in an awkward, spiraling dance between the classes of the 21st century.
Christofer Nilsson
The Livestock at the Manger
A slice of life story about a Christmas Eve, set in the nineties. In the household of a Belgian family. Spoken in their strange dialect. Comical, but tragic if you ask the narrator.
Julie Vanlerberghe, Breyten Van Der Donck
The Struggle for Existence
How do you cope with the struggles of modern day manhood? Who do you go to when you are in doubt? How do you know if you should choke your girlfriend?
Jannik Dahl Pedersen, Rasmus Skaarup Johansen
Twin Flames
Ambitious Manhattan psychic Dinah (Eleanore Pienta) has big dreams and big pockets to fill, but it hasn’t transported her to a house in the Hamptons quite yet. Then she meets Mark (Michael Drayer), a recent millionaire who desperately wants his DJ/influencer ex-girlfriend back by supernatural means, and now Dinah’s seeing dollar signs. But when Dinah pushes her scheme too far, it could all come crashing down.
Colin Kane Healey
We Are Strange
A playful, sometimes wry and in the end dramatic sketch of us, humans (and other animals) seen ‘through the eyes’ of a newly made human in the womb: what kind of world will I live in and what will be my part? And what stage of evolution are we actually in?
Han Hoezen
We’re Too Good For This
A group of deaf and disabled friends decide to get into drug-dealing as payback against a bully.
Missy Malek