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AS THE TIDE COMES IN

By Juan PALACIOS, Sofie HUSUM JOHANNESEN

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Documentary - Completed 2023

The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. However, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2023
International Competition
Gothenburg Film Festival 2024
Nordic Documentary Competition
CPH:DOX 2024
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • DENMARK
    • Languages
    • DANISH, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Juan PALACIOS, Sofie HUSUM JOHANNESEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Kasper LYKKE SCHULTZ (Elk Film)
    • Synopsis
    • The 27 residents on the tiny Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø, are used to severe weather and flooding. Climate change has only made things worse and now it poses a serious existential threat to the eight-square-kilometer island. However, its last farmer, Gregers, whose family has lived there for eight generations, hasn’t given up in the face of the impending catastrophe. He refuses to build a life elsewhere and instead hopes to find a wife to manage the farm with him.

      As a storm is slowly approaching, Gregers and his faithful dog inspect the obsolete dikes that protect his beloved island. In the meantime, Mie blows out the candles of her 100th-year birthday cake, Ellen and Ingeborg complain about the moon disease they suffer from, birdwatcher Niels laments about the rare birds that don’t visit the island anymore, and tourist guide Preben tells stories, about how Mandø’s entire community was almost completely wiped out during a storm surge in 1634, to summer visitors who come and go on a daily basis. Despite the new threats from the rising sea, today’s current generation holds on steadfastly to their little part of the world.

      The portrait of this microcosm is accompanied by masterfully crafted shots of the distinctive landscape, shifting skies, and seas that change with the wind and tide. In a sense, the grim fate of these islanders, presented in daily humorous situations, affects us all.
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