screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
1.33:1 (4:3)
sound format
5.1 Audiomix
original-language
Danish, German
subtitles
English
The store manager of a floating bordershop-container in a Baltic Sea ferry port casts off the chains to the shore so as to save the universe of love she and her employees have created inside. Is unconditional love an escapist dream?
director
Hilke Rönnfeldt
Production
Sebastian Weyland, Virginia Martin, Hilke Rönnfeldt, Giulia Triolo, Caroline Drab
Script
Hilke Rönnfeldt
Editing
Matilda Henningsson
DOP
Maria Goya Barquet
Szenenbild / Production Design
Signe Krab Nymann
Original Score
Daniel Herskedal, Sigurlaug Thorarensen, Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Sound Design
Diana Queirós
Cast
Clara Dessau, David Bredin, Malin Levanon, Yandeh Sallah, Arash Marandi
Festivals
2024
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2024
ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2024
Cork Film Festival, Ireland
2025
Göteborg Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
Production
- North Ship Film UG
- Hilke Rönnfeldt
- http://hilkeroennfeldt.com
Distribution
- North Ship Film UG
- Hilke Rönnfeldt
- http://hilkeroennfeldt.com
Sales
- North Ship Film UG
- Hilke Rönnfeldt
- http://hilkeroennfeldt.com
Hilke Rönnfeldt
Hilke Rönnfeldt graduated as a screenwriter from the Swedish Alma Löv academy and as a film director from the independent film school collective "Super16" in Copenhagen. She is a Berlinale Talents, Oxbelly Episodic Lab, Pustnik Residency and European Short Pitch alumna.
Filmography
2019 Silence of the fish
2021 Fence
2022 Opera Night
2023 En Undersøgelse af Empati
2024 Duty Free