Strong, much-lauded debut by Danish filmmaker about a young girl on her own at home over Christmas. Fantasy and reality mingle; is there a piglet running around, or is it a baby? Where is her mother? Sober, haunting, extremely affecting fiction thanks to the young lead’s fabulous acting.
Also in this combined programme
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Buenos días resistencia
Very realistic, almost a morning ritual long, we observe a father getting his children up and ready for school. -
Odete
Disturbing, hallucinatory portrait of a difficult mother-daughter relationship whose true nature is only revealed after the mother’s death. -
Home
Man perseveres amid the violence in Grozny. Impressively framed, factually based story about the will to survive.
Film details
- Country of production
- Denmark
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 19'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
