The existential comedy that closed this year's Gothenburg Film Festival focuses on Regitze, a 30-year-old woman with no job, no boyfriend and no children. "Hopeless", says her father, who has never attended his daughter's tennis practice. Raised in a family of self-centred academics, she now finds herself at an impasse. Not only did she become pregnant unexpectedly, but her mother's last wish before she died was for her daughter and her father to make a pilgrimage to Spain. They agree to make the journey to honour their mother's memory, but the 260-kilometre trek from Astorga to Compostela is more likely to encounter the living than the dead, and the wall of estrangement between father and daughter is beginning to collapse.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 44 min.
- Country, year
- Denmark, 2023
- Genre
- Comedy
- Language
- Danish, English
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Birgitte Staermose
- Screenplay
- Birgitte Stærmose, Kim Fupz Aakeson
- Producers
- Mark Albela, Johnny Andersen, Marlene Billie Andreasen, Anne Borggaard-Sørensen, Jesper Morthorst, Igor Nola, Theis Nørgaard, Camilla Rydbacken, Birgitte Stærmose, Christian Torpe, Nanna van Elk, Filippa Wallestam
- Cinematography
- Martin Munch, Per Arnesen, Dominik Belancic, Tue Bengtsson, Zdenko Bilandzija, Dejan Boskovic, Jorge Bretón, Marko Erlic, Gustav Foldorf, Mladen Hison, Ivan Idzojtic, William Laustsen Jensen, Matija Keser, Nikola Klacinski, Anders Knudsen, Srdan Kokanov, Marko Kruljac, Darko Lovric, Vilas Marstrand, Dario Matic, Javier Ocampos Lesma, Nikola Predovic, Milan Prpic, Dragutin Pustak, Dusan Rusnov, Michael Sørensen, Mario Vargovic, Tomislav Zainko
- Music
- Janez Dovc
- Cast
- Danica Curcic, Lars Brygmann, Iñaki Ardanaz
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Uždarymo filmas
Director
Birgitte Staermose
Danish writer-director, trained in the USA, her short films have been screened at the Sundance, Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals, and her documentary Out of Love won the Danish National Award. Stærmose also produces TV series in Denmark, such as Norskov, which has been screened on European and US platforms. Her hybrid documentary Afterwar was presented at the Berlin Film Festival this year.
