Beyond Beyond is a story about wanting the impossible. A story about a little rabbit boy not old enough to understand the rules of life, who takes up the fight against the most powerful force. While doing so, he learns more and more about life.
Direction
Toft Jacobsen treats death with unsettling Scandinavian restraint.
Cinematography
Dreamlike imagery that tricks you into thinking it's for children.
Score
Haunting lullabies that refuse to let you feel better.
Director
Esben Toft Jacobsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Danish-Swedish co-production reflects Nordic children's media's comfort with death—think Bambi by way of Bergman.
Edvin Ryding, who voiced Johan, later starred in Netflix's Young Royals—apparently Scandinavian childhood trauma was his brand early.
DK
SE
