22 minutes to wreck your entire understanding of motherhood. Buckle up.
Anna has a loving and understanding husband and has become the mother of a wonderful daughter for the first time. But memories from her own traumatic childhood make it difficult to handle the new role of mother.
Acting
Arcel Fock's face does brutal, wordless storytelling.
Direction
Walter traps you in Anna's dissociation—no escape, no relief.
Director
Anders Walter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Denmark's New Puritan wave: short films tackling taboo subjects with surgical precision. Walter won an Oscar for 'Helium' (2013) and brings that same child-centric devastation here.
The 22-minute runtime isn't convenience—it's suffocation. Walter denies you the relief of feature-length processing; Anna doesn't get that either.
DK
