Anna is a 35-year-old single mother and a paramedic. One morning, as Anna is on the way to drop her daughter Katia at school, Katia is hit by a car. While her daughter is in a coma, Anna is informed that the driver was 18-year-old Marina, the daughter of a rich family. Marina’s mother is running for mayor and is willing to pay whatever to sweep the situation under the rug. The deal between the two parts is signed, yet is soon set off the table when the young girl suddenly dies.
Anna turns her grief into a search for justice, a fight against courts, police, and the hospital she works for. When Marina is found not guilty, Anna realizes that it’s not just the rest of the world that has let her down, but her own family as well. Now her quest for justice gradually becomes a quest for revenge…
Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in Black Sea. He earns his life breeding a few animals, while looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains but his pursuit is seen as useless by his family. Destroyed in search of a mineral reserve, his hope is renewed with the news of a competition.
Problematic father figures and a pill-pushing doctor lead a Danish man into darkness in Isabella Eklof's powerful drama echoing with colonial conflict.
Jan is on the run from himself and his traumas after being sexually abused by his father. Now he lives with his family in Nuuk, Greenland, where he works as a nurse and does his best to assimilate into the local community. However, his past catches up with him through a letter from his now dying father, plunging him into a downward spiral of drugs and extramarital affairs. Emil Johnsen is captivating in the lead role, portraying Jan as both boyishly fragile and deeply unsettling. Haunted by his own father figure he's reflecting Denmark's paternalistic relationship with Greenland and its population. Isabella Eklof follows up her acclaimed debut (Holiday, GFF 2018) with a courageous exploration of human darkness, based on Kim Leine's autobiography, solidifying her position as one of our most exciting Nordic directors.
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https://program.goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/program/kalak
A well-known Neapolitan writer returns to their hometown after a long absence and encounters an old friend known as Caracas. Caracas, once a neo-fascist skinhead, is now converting to Islam.