DANISH ON A SUNDAY

DANISH HITS – ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Twice a month we screen a Danish classic or a highly acclaimed new production with English subtitles. Tickets can be booked and purchased online. Please note that booked tickets must be picked up no later than 45 minutes prior to the screening. Read more at cinemateket.dk/danish. Tobias Lynge Herler

Breaking the Waves

SUN 04/12 14:15

Skál

Skál / C. Debell, M. G. Tórgarð, 2021 / Eng. subitles / 80 min.

Dania, 21, grew up in a Christian congregation on the Faroe Islands. She recently moved to Tórshavn, where she became romantically involved with hip-hop artist and poet Trygvi, aka Silver boy. Fascinated by Trygvi’s courage to write brutally honest lyrics about being human, Dania starts writing more personal texts that amount to a collection of poems, ‘Skál’, critical of the double life she and other young people are forced to live in order to fit within the strict Christian framework.

SUN 18/12 14:15

Day of Wrath

Vredens Dag / Carl Th. Dreyer, 1943 / Eng. subtitles / 97 min.

Anne is a quiet young woman married to a much older pastor, whose mother does not consider Anne worthy of her son. Anne lives in a world of stark discipline and deep shadows where any tolling church bell may be announcing a new witch hunt. When Absalon's son returns home, Anne falls in love with him. At the same time Anne starts wondering if she has supernatural power like her mother who was considered a witch.

SUN 08/01 14:15

Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier, 1996 / English dialogue / 158 min.

In a small patriarchal community on Scotland's rugged Atlantic coast Bess is considered a good but simple-minded girl, who should not really marry Jan, her foreign oil-rig machinist friend. When Jan is physically disabled in an accident, she succumbs to his wishes of maintaining her sexual relationship with him by proxy. Exposing herself to physical abuse, Bess somehow retains her innocence and closeness to God.

SUN 22/01 14:15

Flee

Flugt / Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021 / Eng. subtitles / 83 min.

An animated documentary telling the true story about a man’s need to confront his past in order to truly have a future. Amin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, at 36, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-time boyfriend. A secret he has been hiding for over 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built for himself. For the first time, he is sharing his story with his close friend.