Joen Højerslev

Joen Højerslev

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Joen Højerslev

Películas

The Great Silence
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alma struggles to show him mercy, as his presence unearths a family secret she has desperately tried to suppress. With the ceremony impending, Alma begins to lose her footing and doubt whether she is worthy of the love of her God.
Chrysanthemum
Peter
After many years of separation, landscaper and part time dealer of illegal fireworks – Anders – is contacted by his father Thomas who is about to lose the family farm. To help his father, Anders returns home and starts a larger production of illegal fireworks and begins shipping it through the family's freight company. Through the traffic of fireworks, the family finds a way towards reconciliation and forgiveness for the first time since the family tragedy twenty years ago which Anders feels responsible for.
The Penultimate
Vandaflæseren
The film is a Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. In his attempt to escape, perception of reality, the rational, and the remnants of his human existence is turned upside down.
Una sombra en mi ojo
Prisoner 2
El 21 de marzo de 1945, la Real Fuerza Aérea Británica emprendió una misión para bombardear el cuartel general de la Gestapo en Copenhague. La incursión tuvo consecuencias fatales, ya que algunos de los bombarderos apuntaron accidentalmente a una escuela y murieron más de 120 personas, 86 de las cuales eran niños.
Margrete, reina del norte
Folmer Jakobsen Lunge
La producción danesa más cara de la historia es este drama histórico ambientado a principio del siglo XV, una historia de poder, intrigas y juego político con una impresionante ambientación y unas no menos espectaculares actuaciones.Aunque con algunas libertades narrativas (no se puede saber con certeza qué ocurrió tras las puertas del castillo de Kalmar hace más de 600 años), la película narra los hechos ocurridos en el año 1402, cuando la reina Margrete de Dinamarca, que había conseguido unir a las monarquías nórdicas de Noruega, Suecia y Dinamarca en un estado conocido como Unión de Kalmar, ve cómo la paz y la estabilidad de los pueblos nórdicos está amenazada por los alemanes.
Kaldet
Peter
Expediente 64: Los casos del Departamento Q
Fisher
Tras una pared falsa se hallan tres cadáveres momificados alrededor de una mesa, junto a un asiento libre. Carl y Assad siguen las pistas hasta una institución donde tenían lugar experimentos médicos. Allí, intentan descubrir quién debía ocupar el cuarto asiento.
Neon Heart
A story about three people chasing life and each other. Laura is on her way to a porn film casting. Niklas is trying to take care of two men with Down’s Syndrome, and Frederik is out to gain respect as a hooligan. In glimpses and fragments of past and present, we follow the three characters on a journey full of taboos and desires.
Letters to Amina
Politimand
Janus has just left a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. His only reason to live has been letters from his high school friend Amina. When the letters suddenly stop, Janus is sure that something terrible has happened to her. To make sure she is alright, he sets out to find her.
Darkland
Anton
En Darkland, un exitoso doctor perderá a su hermano pequeño en un asalto relacionado con pandillas y abandonará su privilegiada vida para convertirse en un guerrero enmascarado con ansias de venganza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Father of Four: Wild Holiday
Eigil
A wild holiday of the father of four and his family.
Grey Gold
Bank Manager
Discarded by society, let down by their bank and evicted from their homes, three senior citizens plan a nice little bank robbery to set things right. But things don't go quite that easy...
This Life
Una familia de posaderos toma las armas durante la ocupación de Dinamarca para combatir a los ocupantes alemanes. En la lucha por la libertad, algunos deben morir para que otros puedan vivir. (FILMAFFINITY)
Camping
A grief-stricken dysfunctional family goes camping.
Oneway-Ticket to Korsør
Rasmus defends his Ph.D in Danish literature entitled "The Romantic Idiot", but with his special qualifications there are not many jobs around. To reduce his study loan he settles for a temporary teaching job at an adult education programme in the provincial town of Korsør. Here, Rasmus meets a complex group of people and takes part in their lives. He falls dramatically in love with one of his pupils, Signe, who dreams of having a child with her partner, Camilla. Playing the role of a romantic idiot in Korsør just isn't plain sailing for Rasmus.
Dancers
Andreas
»Dancers« is centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother. One day Annika meets Lasse and falls passionately in love. But there is something Lasse hasn't told her, something he has done that is not so easy to forgive. Confronting an unknown darkness in Lasse, and in herself, Annika is forced to recognize the high cost of saying yes to love.
Offscreen
Lene's New Boyfriend
Influenciado por los films enraizados en el manifiesto dogma, la película narra el calamitoso proceso de desamor que sufre el famoso actor danés Nicolas Bro cuando un buen día su mujer le comunica que ha dejado de quererle. Lo curioso del relato es que es el propio actor quien se filma a sí mismo en su rutina diaria habitual, haciéndonos partícipes en directo de su drama personal.