LIMBO
2015 Films
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1h 19m
On the outskirts of a small Southern Danish port town, teenager Sara, connects with schoolteacher Karen in a way that transforms them both. Shot and set in Nakskov, the small Southern Danish island where director Anna Sofie Hartmann grew up, Limbo is a quietly audacious debut film, which thrives in the rich atmosphere it creates. Intercutting extended documentary sequences with the fictionalised real-life chatter of those lingering beyond the margins of the frame, Limbo creates a world in which the state of youth and the uncertainty of being are brought into question.
Direction: Anna Sofie Hartmann
Script: Anna Sofie Hartmann
Production: Nina Helveg, Laure Tinette
Cinematography: Matilda Mester
Editing: Sofie Steenberger
Production Design: Ida Hammer Ingerslev
Costume Design: Dorothea Bach
Sound: Christian Obermaier
Original Score: Mads Hartmann
Cast: Annika Nuka Mathiassen, Sofia Nolsø
Original Title: LIMBO
Original Language: Danish
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
Film Production Countries: Germany, Denmark
Website: www.dffb.de
Biography of the Director/s
Born in 1984, Anna Sofie Hartmann grew up in rural Nakskov, Denmark. A year at the European Film College in Århus was followed by a move to Berlin, where she worked in the studio of artist Olafur Eliasson. In 2008, she signed up at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin. LIMBO (2014) is her feature debut.
Awards Won
CPH:PIX: Special Mention
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