THE MOUNTAINS



FESTIVALS:

* CPH:DOX
* HotDocs: International Spectrum
* Visions du Réel: Grand Angle
* Sheffield


AWARDS:
* Hot Docs - Best International Feature Documentary Award
* Hot Docs - Emerging International Filmmaker Award
* CPH:DOX - NEXT Award
* CPH:DOX - Politiken:Dox Award Special Mention


The Mountains

Category |Human Interest, Social Issues
Year | 2023
Country | Denmark
Running time | 89’
Format | 2K, 4K
Production | Made in Copenhagen
Director | Christian Einshoj


To decades after the tragic death of his brother, the director Christians Einshøj's family is falling apart. But when his overworked CEO dad is unexpectedly let off and decides to sell the family home, Christian goes back home in a final desperate attempt to assemble the family and recover what is lost.

with 30 years of home-video, 75.000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, he ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to confront a 25-year old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake.

story of fathers and sons, of vast collections of stamps and amateur videography, of long-distance business-class flights and all the other ways in which we flee, instead of talking about that which hurts - and of the redemption that can follow when the silence is eventually breached.

REVIEWS

"Heartbreaking Portrait of a Fractured Family"
-VARIETY by Jennie Punter


"A tender meditation on the enduring effects of old school masculinity. It’s also an astute observation of a family in crisis."
- POINT OF VIEW MAGAZINE by Barbara Goslawski

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