NFF 2023
movies shown at 2023 Lwd's filmfest
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- DirectorHilmar OddssonStarsÞröstur Leó GunnarssonKristbjörg KjeldHera HilmarThe death of Jon's mother forces him to take on a journey with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish. Bresnef the dog comes along and this trip will be the gamechanger Jon never dreamt of.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlma PöystiJussi VatanenJanne HyytiäinenIn modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
- DirectorMartin ButlerBentley DeanStarsMungau DainMarie WawaMarceline RofitSet on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.
- DirectorFrederikke AspöckStarsAnna NeyeSara Fanta TraoreClaus Riis ØstergaardSt. Croix, the Danish West Indies, 1848. Anna and Petrine are close friends. Both are women of color, but Anna is free and owns her housekeeper, the enslaved Petrine. Things are seemingly fine until rumors of a rebellion begin to swirl.
- DirectorAndreas KoefoedJørgen LethStarsJoey BaronJakob BroAnders ChristensenA documentary that explores the lives and processes of some of the world's most renowned and prolific jazz musicians.
- DirectorKatrine BrocksStarsKristine Kujath ThorpElliott Crosset HoveKaren-Lise MynsterA 29-year-old woman prepares to take her perpetual vows at a convent when her estranged brother unexpectedly shows up, unearthing a secret family tragedy.
- DirectorKristoffer HegnsvadStarsChristopher HerwigVictor Sheptunov IllarionovichKonstantinas Jakovlevas-MateckisUncovering the stories of the designers who built fascinating architectural marvels during the Soviet regime, Soviet Bus Stops is an ode to the power of individual creativity that would not be suppressed.
- DirectorGuy DavidiMaking a war is a storyteller's job. A good story is crucial to legitimize the use of military force. That's why militaries need strong promotion and Israel is a model country in promoting its military ventures. We've successfully colonized, occupied and overgrown, and only got stronger and more accepted amongst the nations. Our history as persecuted Jews, our enlightened democracy are both in use in our solid PR kit. But before pitching our story to the world, we need to pitch it to our children. As moral corruption linked with apartheid thrives, avoiding service becomes a threat. For some children we'll offer benefits, for most we'll sell fictitious promises. Every child is screened to serve with bearable pressure and an adjusted amount of exposure to violence. 'Innocence' tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.
- DirectorMalene ChoiStarsCornelius Won Riedel-ClausenBjarne HenriksenBodil JørgensenA coming-of-age story about two adolescents facing racism in their adopted families, while confronting a society where immigration has become a divisive issue.
- DirectorAndreas ÖhmanStarsKarin Franz KörlofArvin KananianElvis Ral LustigSuccessful cartoonist Lisa and her siblings gather at their parents' farm for the first time in over ten years. The parents want only one of them to inherit the forest, which has been in the family's possessions for generations.
- DirectorSaskia BoddekeWhen director Saskia Boddeke saw the performance Furia by Kamak, a professional theater group for actors with intellectual disabilities, she was so impressed that she decided to make a film about the ensemble. The piece they perform, a lavishly designed fairytale about lust and anger, is cinematically portrayed by Boddeke with beautifully staged shots in rich, saturated colors. She also follows the rehearsal process, zooming in on various members of the group.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsWillem VoogdBram ReurinkAnastasia WeinmarNATASHA'S Dance tells the tragicomic love story of the unworldly Daantje and the Russian Natasha, a woman who is socially isolated and scarred by life. It is an impossible love between two seemingly incompatible characters coming from two completely different backgrounds. A lighthearted mosaic of events illustrates their fatal connection, their final 'homecoming' and the sense and senselessness of life.
- DirectorLeiv Igor DevoldStarsHubert MilkowskiKarl Bekele SteinlandEdyta TorhanA 19-year-old Polish immigrant working at a fish factory in Norway has feelings for his colleague. A strike begins among the Polish workers at the factory testing their relationship, and with their fellow workers.
- DirectorErnst De GeerStarsAsta Kamma AugustHerbert NordrumAndrea EdwardsA hypnotherapist sees Vera throw off the trappings of civilized behaviour. For a event She attends with André, Vera's behaviour holds a mirror up to the faux-authenticity, virtue signalling and hypocrisy of her fellow entrepreneurs.
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsPayman MaadiAmirali AbanzadAhmed AbdullahiIman and his family flee Iran and end up in a hotel turned into a refugee center in Northern Sweden. Iman maintains his role as family patriarch but he breaks promise to his wife and joins local wrestling club. Rumours spread, Iman's fear and desperation begin to take a hold.
- DirectorAbbe HassanStarsAshraf BarhomJwan AlqatamiIsa AouifiaA professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsStella LeppikorpiMinna HaapkyläTommi Korpela"Bubble" is a film about a 16-year-old Eveliina who decides to end her mother's extramarital relationship.
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsPaul McCartneyDavid GilmourRobert PlantThe story of the album art design studio, Hipgnosis, who created some of the most iconic album covers of all time.
- DirectorDennis BotsThomas NauwStarsPeter NillesenDirk Gunther MohrAndreas LessigDuring the final months of World War II, a Nazi officer assigned to protect the war-torn frontline in the Netherlands decides to risk his life to protect a Jewish family in hiding.
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsPaprika SteenLars BrygmannJoachim FjelstrupThe year is 1963. A women's liberation movement the size of today's #MeToo movement has been underway for a while, and it's rolling across the Western world like an avalanche. In a luxury flat in central Copenhagen we meet one of the period's biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, accompanied by her husband, the sadistic editor in chief Victor Andreasen. Her talent is indisputable, only her husband's destructive envy surpasses it. And whilst she uses her talent and authorship to give a voice to the suppressed women of the time, providing them with courage to leave behind husbands and the patriarchal structures of society, Andreassen's only talent is to sell sexist tabloids to the people. Tove looks straight through her husband's inferiority complex, and yet she puts up with his humiliating behavior and his violence. He is the one who controls her drug abuse and repeated admissions to the psychiatric ward - the only place in which she truly finds peace to write. On this very day they're expecting a lunch guest, like hyenas awaiting their prey. Their power struggle needs an audience, a weak play mate they can throw around as they see fit. Who is more suited than the young, promising author Klaus R., a man who celebrates the modern woman's rebellion and the new opportunities afforded to her? Klaus R. believes they'll be talking about literature in an era that belongs to women - what he doesn't know is that a blood bath awaits him. Or does he?
- DirectorKatja GauriloffStarsAgafia NiemenmaaHeidi GauriloffSanna-Kaisa PaloIida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland's Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.
- DirectorZara DwingerStarsRosa van LeeuwenFrieda BarnhardLidia SadowaOut of the children's home and into the rusty Chevrolet: Lu is whisked away by her eccentric mother - cowboy boots, wigs and sunglasses in tow. On their road trip east, both dream of finally staying together forever.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsChris AndersonFelix BergssonUlrika BergstenFrom the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorJuha SuonpääA bearded Finnish hermit who oscillates between sweating out his demons in a sauna, and crawling around the forest at night to document the endangered lynx.
- DirectorMarija KavtaradzeStarsGreta GrineviciuteKestutis CicenasPijus GanusauskasDancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJuliette BinocheBenoît MagimelEmmanuel SalingerThe story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.
- DirectorDean DeBloisStarsAmiinaHildur ArsaelsdottirJon Thor BirgissonIn the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland.
- DirectorElfar AdalsteinsStarsHeida ReedÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonÞorsteinn BachmannThe Village is brimming with stories and if you listen carefully it might tell you some: of the Manager who dreams in Latin and leaves his career for Astronomy and old books, of a translucent boy who carves moorland birds, of an open-air affair and a rock that is chiselled to dust. Based on the eponymous book by celebrated Icelandic author Jon Kalman Stefansson.
- DirectorPeter PontikisStarsTomas SamirKhalaf AyoubHelen Al-JanabiIt tells the story of a boy from a socially deprived suburb who is forced to help his friend out of trouble with the local 'gang'. This risks changing the course of his life and sending him to a path that he did not choose himself.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenAnnikki TähtiM arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnny OndraJohn LongdenSara AllgoodAfter killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDave TurnerEbla MariClaire RodgersonThe future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.
- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsSofía OteroPatricia López ArnaizAne GabarainDuring a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorKaroline LyngbyeStarsMarie Bach HansenMikkel Boe FølsgaardMihlo OlsenThe creative couple Stine and Teit and their young son Nemo leave their urban life in Copenhagen behind in favour of an isolated forest in Sweden, where they hope to find themselves as individuals.
- DirectorCharlotte ReganStarsLola CampbellAlin UzunCary CranksonGeorgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
- DirectorOskar LehemaaMikk MägiStarsMikk MägiOskar LehemaaJan UuspõldAn outrageous road movie about The Old Man and his grand-kids in a 24 hour race against time to stop a milky madman hell bent on killing his prized cow to save the world.
- DirectorRobert LorenzStarsKerry CondonDesmond EastwoodConor MacNeillIn a remote Irish village, a widower is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
- DirectorHenrik Martin DahlsbakkenStarsAlfred Ekker StrandeThea Lambrechts VaulenPer FrischRejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his older sister and tortured by addiction, the film captures Edvard Munch's life, one of the world's greatest artists of all time.
- DirectorAlexander AbaturovStarsAnton ZakharovNelli AlekseevaVasili EverstovThe heart of a raging forest fire in northeastern Siberia, brought on by climate change. Left to their own fate, the villagers join forces.
- DirectorJoren MolterStarsJarne HeylenJoël in 't VeldMicha HulshofAs Brian (13) cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up.
- DirectorStefan SchwietertStarsBill DrummondJohn HirstImagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, iPod's, instruments?
- DirectorMalou ReymannStarsAmalie Drud AbildgaardLene Maria ChristensenDanica CurcicThe year is 1933, and society has very specific expectations of how young women should behave. Seventeen-year-old Maren is wild and unruly, so she is sent to the women's institution on Sprogø to adapt. The stay has the opposite effect.
- DirectorSelma VilhunenStarsAlma PöystiVilhelm BlomgrenEero MilonoffA middle-aged couple who, in the middle of an infidelity crisis, decide to open their marriage and venture into polyamory.
- DirectorOle GiæverStarsIvar BeddariBernt BjørnMaria BockEster hides her identity to avoid being exposed to racism. When Ester suddenly finds herself in the middle of demonstrations against a big dam development in Alta, a personal journey out of the shame she has carried so long begins.
- DirectorLaurens PérolStarsKornelia MelsæterFride Snipsøyr HoløsJohn Inge JohansenWhen the 18-year-old climate activist and trumpet talent is invited to an audition at the Opera House, she has to travel the over 1,500 km to the capital. But she refuses to fly. Trine tries to hitchhike. Her passions is put to the test.
- DirectorVeerle BaetensStarsCharlotte De BruyneSebastien DewaeleSpencer BogaertMany years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts herself with her past and faces up to her tormentors.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsMimoza AzemiFatlume BunjakuKasem HoxhaAlbania 1958: A boy and girl grow up together in the same village. They are the best of friends. LUANA is the daughter of a well respected man, AGIM the son of traitors who were banned from the city by the communists. Despite these adverse circumstances, the two maintain their friendship over 10 years. As a young woman Luana experiences more and more to be a woman is a curse and takes unusal actions end her situation as a victim and gain power to decide for herself.
- DirectorKristoffer BorgliStarsLily BirdNicolas CageJulianne NicholsonAn ordinary family man finds his life turned upside down when strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSherwan HajiSakari KuosmanenKaija PakarinenA poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
- DirectorVictor DanellStarsInez Dahl TorhaugJesper BarkseliusEva MelanderA rebellious teen placed in foster care suspects her father is not dead but has been abducted. She is determined to find out the truth with help from a UFO association.
- DirectorAdura OnashileStarsDéborah LukumuenaDanny SapaniLe'Shantey BonsuAma and Grace and they only have each other and that's all they need. They live confined to their Glasgow apartment. Only Grace goes out to work as a cleaner, forbidding Ama to go out.
- DirectorMika GustafsonStarsBianca DelbravoDilvin AsaadSafira MossbergThree sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
- DirectorRobin HardyStarsEdward WoodwardChristopher LeeDiane CilentoA puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
- DirectorJim TaihuttuStarsJoes BrauersJim DeddesJordy DijkshoornMichael dreams of a future as a pianist but his music education doesn't go well. In search of inspiration his brother Danny introduces him to the Rotterdam gabber scene. Danny's drug business reaches international proportions and the brothers must fight for their lives.
- DirectorJoonas PajunenMax SeeckStarsSaana KoivistoPekka StrangInka KallénThree adult siblings go examine their late parents' house in the middle of the forest.
- DirectorJacquelyn MillsStarsZoe LucasAn immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsJørgen MykløenMagnhild MykløenBeing connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
- DirectorMark CousinsBecky MansonAidan O'RourkeStarsCormac BegleyBrighde ChaimbeulRoisin ChambersA film about the handful of streets around the Cowgate in Edinburgh which have long housed a proud Irish diaspora. A film about folk music and its power to connect people.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenKari VäänänenElina SaloThe recession hits a couple in Helsinki.
- DirectorAurora GosséStarsLiv Elvira Kippersund LarssonSturla HarbitzViljar Knutsen BjaadalA 12-year-old girl who falls in love with a famous dancer who moves to her town, and auditions for his crew - despite the fact that she cannot dance.
- DirectorAnna HintsStarsKadi KiviloMaria MeresaarElsa SaksIn the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
- DirectorHarshad NalawadeStarsSudip BilawarShalini ChouguleAtul DeshmukhIn a town riddled with territorial disputes, a radicalized journalist believes in exposing the atrocities faced by his community. But as the line between his professional and personal life blurs, an inconvenient truth makes him reflect back on a simpler time when he had not yet succumbed to radicalization.
- DirectorPaul WrightStarsLaura RennieIan SexonFrom the earliest days of movie-making to the present day, through rare and unseen footage, we see the changing relationship the British have with their land. From images of local celebrations and festivals to agricultural practices through the seasons, village life and lost crafts.
- DirectorSarvnik KaurStarsRakesh KoliGanesh NakhawaBombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the Koli knowledge system of harvesting the sea following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods; Ganesh has instead embraced technology.
- DirectorJoost SchrickxTo remember that 70 years ago Moluccan KNIL soldiers, forced by the Dutch Government, came to the Netherlands by boat, Moluccan pop and jazz singer Jessica Manuputty is making a record of traditional Moluccan lagu lagu music.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääKari VäänänenSakke JärvenpääSiberian rock band Leningrad Cowboys go to the USA in pursuit of fame.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsAnthony HopkinsLena OlinJohnny FlynnSir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.