SØEN I SPEJLET /

LAKE IN THE MIRROR

Written&directed: Johanna Domke

Camera: Anne Misselwitz
Edit: Angelika von Chamier
Music: Bilgehan Özis
Production: Johanna Domke

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Once a year the students of Sorø Academy held a ritual out in the woods, burning effegies of their teachers on a bonfire. The narrative of the film evolves around the character of a former student that revisits the place of his school days meeting with a group of young students. What first seems to be the fictionalization of the former student's memory, becomes more and more the documentation of the staging of the ritual – the alumni himself being the director. But as soon as the ritual sets off, all turns to a different state of realness, as the anger and emotion of the young students boil up to an uncanny level of authenticity.