The festival unspooling June 21-25 at the National Film School of Denmark ( https://generationfestival.dk ) is a new initiative from director Tine Fischer to bring the voices of the next generation of Danish filmmakers to the general audience.

"With the delivery a new generation - or year - of filmmakers, the Film School has a rather unique opportunity to launch a contemporary festival for new, young talent that reflects what is happening in the world,” she said. “The ambition with GENERATION is to show where the art of film is heading, and how it relates to the great artistic, social and political agendas of the time, which occupy the youth of today.”

The festival programme’s centrepiece is naturally the screening of the 13 films from this year’s 42 graduating students, that more than ever, explore “the boundaries between fiction and reality and deal with topics such as masculinity, grief, parenthood, fear of death and the limitations of art,” according to the National Film School of Denmark.

Many of the graduation films, also “look both outside Denmark's borders and far away from the cultural epicentres of the big cities, in order to portray other, often overlooked realities,” states the film school which counts among its former graduates Hlynur Pálmason, Maria Bäck, May el Toukhy, Lea Glob, and Milad Alami, all recipients of a Nordic Talents Pitch Prize.

Next to the graduation film screenings, ‘Generation’ will present 12 international features from rising talents that played at A festivals, such as the Norwegian films Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli, and Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick? by Franciska Seifert Eliassen.

The festival also offers debates about diversity in Danish film and culture, the new genre films - with Fenar Ahmad’s Darkland-The Return-, or how to work with humour - discussed by actress Emma Sehested Høeg, satirist Nina Rask, writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen.

The festival is organised in association with Danish Film Institute, DR, Beckett Foundation, Brodie Sessions and the Danish-Norwegian Cooperation.

As a prelude to the festival, the graduating films were also screened to the general audience in various locations in Aahus and Copenhagen June 17-20.

This year’s graduates from the National Film School of Denmark are eligible for the upcoming Pitch competition at Nordic Talents, unfolding at the film school September 6-7, 2023 - CLICK HERE.

Watch out for the announcement of the Nordic Talents competition line-up 2023 Tuesday June 27.