Canadian Premiere
Estranged from her dysfunctional, controlling parents after coming out as a lesbian, Leonora Christina Skov first learns of her mother’s terminal breast cancer while being interviewed live on TV. When she visits her mother and father in the hospice, she’s forced to confront and process her childhood and relationship with her parents as memory and reality begin to blur together in a surreal nightmare. Leonora finds herself trapped in a claustrophobic, closed loop between her mother and father, struggling to find her identity as her subconscious fades into a Freudian fever dream of family roles, confused sexuality, and strange symbols pulled from dark fairytales. A provocative, compelling film that examines how we can never escape the influence of our parents, There’s No Place Like Home is adapted from The One Who Lives Quietly, Leonora Christina Skov’s bestselling autobiographical novel. It has the oneiric atmosphere of a David Lynch film, as the simple, surface-level family drama unravels to reveal a dark fable of gaslighting, feminism, and generational trauma.
September 29 & October 1: Q&A with director Puk Grasten
Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Jens Albinus, Sarah Boberg, Gitte (die Gitte) Hænning
Denmark
2022
Panorama
In Danish with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Regner Grasten, Tove Grasten
Screenwriter
Puk Grasten
Cinematography
Mia Mai Dengsø Graabæk
Editor
Gregers Dohn
Production Design
Peter de Neergaard
Original Music
Lasse Ziegler
Director
Puk Grasten
Puk Grasten graduated from EICAR in Paris and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, from which she wrote and directed her debut feature film, 37 (2015). 37 world premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival, where Puk Grasten won the award for Best Director as well as the Russian Critics’ Award for Best Film. 37 also received the Dreyer Prize and The Danish States Art Fond prize.
Filmography: 37 (2016)
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