Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2022 / Hvis du vidste / Denmark 2021
It’s been a few months since Leonora last heard from her ex-boyfriend, but she can’t get him out of her mind. If only he knew that the things she did in the past were because of her illness. How desperately she would like to look him in the eyes and explain it all. But her yearning for forgiveness could violate the personal boundaries of the one she so desperately loves.
It’s been a few months since Leonora last heard from her ex-boyfriend, but she can’t get him out of her mind. Her ideas return like a boomerang; they call for action. If only he knew that the things she did in the past were because of her illness. If only he knew how far she has come thanks to therapy. How desperately she would like to look him in the eyes and explain it all. … Nicolai G. H. Johansen’s psychological drama takes us into the mind of an ill young woman who yearns for forgiveness but cannot distinguish between love and obsession. This focus on her perspective is what makes If You Knew so important, for it approaches the issue of mental illness not from an observational or rational point of view, but from an emotional one.
Sandra Hezinová
43 min / Color, DCP
Director Nicolai G. H. Johansen
/ Screenplay Nicolai G.H. Johansen
/ Dir. of Photography Sebastian Bjerregaard
/ Music Ingri Høyland
/ Sound Emil Woxen
/ Editor Yifan Zhou
/ Art Director Josefine Friis Lange, Axel Schlosser
/ Producer Asbjørn Høgstad Kelstrup
/ Production Frau Film
/ Cast Mathilde Arcel Fock, Mathias Skov Rahbæk
/ Contact Danish Film Institute
Nicolai G. H. Johansen (1994, Funen, Denmark). Filmography: Walls of Concrete (Vægge af beton, 2019, short), Inherent (2021, short), If You Knew (Hvis du vidste, 2021, short).
Danish Film Institute
Gothersgade 55, 1123, Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone: +45 337 434 00
Fax: +45 337 434 01
E-mail: [email protected]
Nicolai G. H. Johansen
Film Director
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