GIRAFFE

By Anna Sofie HARTMANN

KOMPLIZEN FILM GMBH - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2019

A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel will be built to connect Denmark and Germany, the present sets in motion towards the future. People meet and part ways again.

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2019
Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
Thessaloniki IFF 2019
Official Selection
Mar Del Plata IFF 2019
Nuevos Autores - Nuevas Autoras
Locarno 2019
Fuori Concorso
San Sebastian 2019
Zabaltegi Tabakalera
Film Fest Gent 2020
Focus German Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, DENMARK
    • Languages
    • DANISH, ENGLISH, POLISH, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Anna Sofie HARTMANN
    • Writer(s)
    • Anna Sofie HARTMANN
    • Producer(s)
    • Janine JACKOWSKI (Komplizen Film), Jonas DORNBACH (Komplizen Film), Maren ADE (Komplizen Film)
    • Synopsis
    • A tunnel will be built to connect Denmark and Germany, the present sets in motion towards the future, change hangs in the air. Dara, an ethnologist, arrives to document the houses tagged for demolition. The young Pole, Lucek, and his colleagues prepare the future construction site. Käthe works on the ferry, steadily moving people, their stories, and goods to and fro. Birte and Leif leave their house that has been passed down for generations. Agnes' life resounds in her diaries, collectibles and the walls of her home, which will soon be demolished. A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. People meet and part ways again.