Povl Kristian

Colombia in My Arms (2022)

After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion of the poor. Ernesto is one of them. The much celebrated Colombian peace agreement throws Ernesto and the po ...

Mr. Graversen (2022)

After years of substance abuse, Michael's father returns to his life, but an old family trauma continues to haunt the Graversen family. A film with heart and courage about regaining the belief in life and each other. ...

Beautiful Something Left Behind (2020)

In New Jersey, the Good Grief community focuses on a holistic way of dealing with grief, where children can give in to rage in 'the volcano room,' and say goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in 'the hospital room.' Over the course of a year, we follow t ...

It Takes a Family (2019)

It Takes A Family is a complex, personal story about the director's family, its secrets and repressed memories. Susanne Kovács knows that her paternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and fled to Denmark to begin a new life. The Hungarian couple kept t ...

Q's Barbershop (2019)

A colourful, upbeat tale from Vollsmose about the resourceful and funky hairdresser Qasim, who instils dignity, inspiration and hope in young people through something we can all relate to – a cool haircut! ...

Dreams by the Sea (2017)

Ester (16) lives a safe but mundane life, in a small town on an island together with her religious and conservative parents. One day, when she's in Sunday school, she meets Ragna, a girl who has just moved to the same small town with her alcoholic mother a ...

Waiting for the Sun (2017)

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living in the streets. Grandma Zhang, as the kids call her, is a former prison guard who has founded an orphanage ...

Født til Filmen (2015)

What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person? "Født til Filmen" is about the Danish actress Stine Bierlich's (1967 - 2007) life and career. Through interviews with herself, with her family - Ann Bierlich ...

We Are Journalists (2014)

Ahmad Jalali Farahani works as a journalist in Iran. On 27 December 2009, he sees an innocent man being killed on the street, but neither Ahmad or his colleagues dare write about the murder. The journalists are hard-pressed and struggle daily against censo ...

Queen for a Day (2013)

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and b ...

Almost Perfect (2012)

Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor who has been carefully chosen. But as her hormones get the better of her she realizes that ...

Thea and Leoparden (2009)

A story of two eight year old girls and all the obstacles they must overcome to be friends. ...

Hush Little Baby (2009)

Four girls in rehab is on tour from their treatment centers and it becomes their life stories. The girls run off in a stolen Volvo and soon learns to know the freedom of good and evil. Both the fantastic feeling to be master of its own destiny, but also th ...

Comeback (2008)

An elderly theater director returns to Copenhagen in order to reconnect with his estranged son. ...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2006)

A chamber play taking place around Christmas, where Liv, her brother and mother are to celebrate Christmas together. The father has recently left the family and 14 year-old Liv cannot accept that Christmas is not what is used to be. Liv does her best in or ...

Max by Chance (2004)

This is the story of Max, the director's own story, playfully animated within the realms of documentary. Max's story goes back several generations to sailors, industrialists and Summer of Love hippies, all of whom are depicted with whole-hearted love and e ...

This Is Me Walking (2004)

Harris lives in Manhattan. He is working in the real estate business, trying to recover from the love he just lost and struggling to move closer to becoming the stage performer he wants to be. The film moves intensely between something very fictitious and ...

Blue Collar White Christmas (2002)

Documentary series about Diana, Lotte, Kragelund, Tobisen, Lau and Anna who all work at the local factory Viking in Esbjerg, Denmark. Now they fear for their jobs. ...

Shake It All About (2001)

Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal ...

Let's Get Lost (1997)

Three friends, Steffen, Thomas and Mogens spend a lot of time together in Julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money for tickets to the big game next week. At the same time Julie is trying to get in contact with her boyfriend ...

Pusher (1996)

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord. ...

Hugland (2015)

Comeback (2008)

An elderly theater director returns to Copenhagen in order to reconnect with his estranged son. ...