Three young film teams from the National Film School of Denmark provide an aesthetic and profound collective experience that, in different ways, visualizes the human ability to imagine parallel worlds and examines how this ability helps shape what we call reality.
On the big screens at Orange Stage, three short films will take you on consciousness-expanding trips, where you are presented with different realities across age, gender, and race. From travelling to a mysterious land in a queer moon sci-fi documentary about soft masculinities, queer bodies, and family ties, to exploring a mysterious, yet familiar, underworld forest, to rediscover the wonderful possibilities of nature.
The collaboration between the film school and Roskilde Festival strives for new voices, new narratives, and new ways of understanding the role of art in society – and how art can actively engage us in redesigning our shared future.
The National Film School of Denmark was founded in 1966 and is based in Copenhagen. The school's goal is to stimulate artistic creativity, so that original and authentic stories find their way from thought to screen with an understanding of the importance of art from a broader societal perspective.
The presented short films are the following:
An Ode to Imagination by Keiria Shishay, Ulrikke Xenia, Tobi Aman Manczak, and Isidore De Souza.
Queer Moon by Kauli Green, Gerda Falk, Simon Pedersen, Johan Lange Reddersen, and Mira Thu.
Utopia by Malthe Kalbakk Elgaard, Ane Vennize Andersen, Sophus Wolf, and Rasmus Meyer.