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AS THE TIDE COMES IN

06.11.2024

Feature Film Selection/ Denmark, 2023, 89’

Details
  • DirectorJuan Palacios, Sofie Husum Johannesen
  • Screenplay: Juan Palacios
  • Editing: Nicolas Nørgaard Staffolani
  • Cinematography: Juan Palacios
  • Music: Morten Svenstrup
  • Producer: Kasper Lykke Schultz
  • ProductionElk Film
Recap

The 27 residents of Mandø, a small Danish island in the Wadden Sea, are accustomed to harsh weather and frequent flooding. However, climate change and increasingly extreme weather events now pose a significant threat to this eight-square-kilometre island.

Director

Juan Palacios

Juan Palacios is a Basque filmmaker and an artistic researcher with a background in Environmental Studies and an MA in Film from the Netherlands Film Academy. With a particular interest in the boundaries between human culture and the non-human, mysticism and materialism, he employs imagery from a natural world to create an alternative universe.

Sofie Husum Johannesen

Sofie Husum Johannesen has a background in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus University and has been a core part of Elk Film’s production and producer team since 2017. She has worked alongside world-renowned filmmakers on titles such as ‘The Lost Leonardo,’ ‘See Me as I Am,’ ‘Aswang,’ and ‘The Great Game,' among others. ‘As the Tide Comes In' is Sofie’s debut in directing.

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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.