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- A now middle-aged director's search for the world's most wanted person - who's God? how does s/he look like?. This search, started within the walls of his own home, ultimately takes him to the gigantic Pollsmoor penitentiary in Cape Town, South Africa, where he has the chance to talk with murderers, robbers and rapists that appear to have now found comfort in religion.
- A lonely sheep farmer in his fifties employs the services of a matchmaker to find a wife. Out in his small country farm-house in the super green fields of Ireland with his dog "Rowd," he makes up his mind and spruces up his life for new love.
- Beneath the idyllic surface of Los Angeles' endless suburbs lurks a family drama with parents who hire specialized companies to pick up unruly teens in the middle of the night in their own homes and against their will deliver them to special "boot camps" in the Mormon state of Utah to teach them discipline. It is well-meaning but also appallingly brutal and not unlike something from American action movies.
- An old teddy bear sails towards Cape Town, South Africa, where he lives half the year with this owner, nine-year-old Simon. The teddy bear fears that Simon might grow up too soon and find other interests.
- Unable to tell the story of the ever-changing society of South Africa, a documentary director has to re-discover how to see and hires a blind Danish actor (Rune T. Kidde) as his alter-ego in an attempt to do so. Mixing documentary - the making of the movie itself - and fiction, the film tells the story of a blind man who enjoyed paragliding until he was forced to stop by the loss of his sight some 10 years ago. After years spent trying to get acquainted with his new condition, the man feels now the need to fly again. Unable to do that in his native country because of his handicap, he travels to South Africa. Here he pays a local maid (Bonnie Mbuli) to be "his eyes". But the growing intimacy between the two generates dissent within the black community where she belongs.
- Jon Bang Carlsen interweaves his Danish post-war childhood memories with the stories of two Jewish Auschwitz survivors, who eventually became part of the white elite of South Africa during Apartheid.
- Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to the core of it. " Staged documentary " he calls his method.
- The documentary began years ago in director Jon Bang Carlsen's childhood home in rural Denmark when he committed a dreadful act that still reverberates within him.
- When his beloved wife passes away, the travelling and extremely productive film poet Jon Bang Carlsen reaches for filmmaking as a way to give his grief a form. 'The Banality of Grief' is a cinematic love letter to a loved one and to the places where they shared their lives for 35 years. South Africa, the USA, their shared home by the water. The boundaries between past and present end in an impressionistic and deeply personal film, where existential and artistic thoughts are countered by new impressions, which testify that life is the greatest of them all.