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I krig med sig selv

Jørgen Flindt Pedersen, 2012

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Soldaten

Nikolaj Møller, 2021

Henrik, a Danish war veteran, returns to Denmark with post-traumatic stress syndrome after his second deployment in Afghanistan. After various failed treatment attempts he moves deep into the Amazon jungle trying to cure himself with plant medicine, including the world’s most halogenic drink, Ayahuasca. The film follows Henrik’s fight in the jungle over three years, offering a close-up of a broken human being, a man let down by the same society he tried to protect, on a journey that doesn’t cure him the way he had hoped.

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Trods alt

Astrid Henning-Jensen, 1990

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Rekonstruktion Utøya

Carl Javér, 2018

Six years after the terrorist attack, four survivors from Utøya meet in northern Norway to remember and share their experiences of what happened. They are joined by twelve young Norwegians who want to help and understand. A psychologist is involved throughout the entire project.

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The Fall

Andreas Koefoed, 2022

11-year-old Estrid is on the threshold of leaving her childhood behind. However, a serious accident hinders her progress; a fall out of the window of her family’s apartment on the fifth floor, as she sleepwalks for the first and only time in her life.
Miraculously, she survives and returns to her daily life thanks to her fierce willpower.

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Skygger - når fortiden styrer nutiden

Anne Gyrithe Bonne, 2017

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The Magic Life of V

Tonislav Hristov, 2019

A creative documentary about a young lady using the magic of LARPing (live-role-playing) in order to cope with her family problems. Haunted by her childhood traumas she is trying to help her mentally disabled brother to become more independent through live-role-playing. As she guides the brother through the world of multiple roles and identities, witches and wizards and medieval knights, she finally finds the courage to face the demons of her own past; namely their abusive father.

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Mr. Graversen

Michael Graversen, 2022

As Michael unannounced travel to his childhood home, he is met by a new version of his father. Free from years of substance abuse, Svend-Aage is suddenly full of energy. He’s eager to talk about his glorious days as a clothing salesman, and he is determined to win back the love of his wife, Astrid.

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Pigen på den lukkede

Christian Voldborg Andersen, 2023

Anna is 24 years old and she has a dual diagnosis in the form of mental illnesses and a drug addiction. Since Anna was 13 years old, she has been a frequent patient in the psychiatric system. Anna is caught in a vicious circle where she abuses drugs as a form of self-medication to handle her many traumas.

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Vinterrejse

Anders Østergaard, 2019

Martin Goldsmith never knew what really had happened to his parents Georg and Rosemarie before their escape from Germany in 1941. As he confronts his father over a long weekend, we are brought back to the complex 1930s, when his parents were young musicians in a bizarre organisation – Jüdischer Kulturbund. Here, at the mercy of Joseph Goebbels, they devoted their youth to music until they escaped at the very last minute.

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Bellum - The Daemon of War

David Herdies, Georg Götmark, 2021

A bored military contractor in Nevada pining for his return, an American war photographer in Afghanistan attempting to capture the horrors, and a Swedish engineer developing A.I. for the defense industry.