Skip to main content
There's No Place Like Home film image

There's No Place Like Home

Den, Der Lever Stille

This event has passed

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

Director
Cast

Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Jens Albinus, Sarah Boberg, Gitte (die Gitte) Hænning

Credits
Country of Origin

Denmark

Year

2022

Series

Panorama

Language

In Danish with English subtitles

Film Contact
18+
106 min
Drama Women Directors

Book Tickets

This event has passed.

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 headshot

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)

Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp
121 min

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a heartwarming film for all ages. Marcel, a tiny shell, lives with his grandmother Connie in a human house. When a filmmaker discovers Marcel, they team up to search for his long-lost relatives. Rated: G

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

The Wedding Banquet

Dir. Andrew Ahn
103 min

This joyful comedy cleverly updates Ang Lee's 1993 gay marriage comedy and transports the action to contemporary Seattle (actually, Vancouver).

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Tornado

Dir. John Maclean
91 min

Scotland in the 1790s, travelling circus samurai Tornado (Kōki) runs afoul of a band of murderous brigands led by Tim Roth and his ambitious son, Jack Lowden. Mayhem ensues.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Two Women

Dir. Chloé Robichaud
100 min

In this light-hearted, emancipatory take on a classic sex farce, two neglected married women discover the joys of casual sex and get their plumbing fixed.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again film; overhead shot of churning water

Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again

Dir. Lyana Patrick
91 min

In the face of environmental destruction, two Nations fight to restore their river and a way of life.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Fairy Creek

Dir. Jen Muranetz
86 min

Considered the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, the Fairy Creek blockade led to more than 1200 arrests. What Jen Muranetz's film gives us is the story from the front line from the activists' point of view (often, from the treetops).

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre