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Mira Jargil & Christian Sønderby Jepsen
DK NL 2023 90'
⚬ Human Interest ⚬ Society
Can you find happiness in solitude? When filmmakers Mira Jargil and Christian Sønderby Jepsen try to find a balance in their stressful lives, they look for guidance from a renowned Danish HIV researcher turned monk deep in the mountains of Sri Lanka. What starts as a film about enlightenment turns into an existential investigation and moving family drama about control, mental health and reconciliation.
Directors | Mira Jargil, Christian Sønderby Jepsen |
Producer | Christian Sønderby Jepsen |
Production Company | Moving Documentary |
Cinematography | Christian Sønderby Jepsen |
Writers | Mira Jargil, Christian Sønderby Jepsen |
Editor | Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen |
Music | Jonas Colstrup |
Sound | Bobby Salomon Hess |
Newsweek Psychologia Award for the Best Film on Psychology | Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF 2024 |
Honourable Mention for Best Documentary Feature | Nordisk Panorama 2024 |
One World Human Rights FF 2024 |
Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF 2024 |
| Runtime | 90' |
| Production Country | Denmark, Netherlands |
Spoken Languages | Danish, English, Singhalese |
Mira Jargil is known for her artistic and high-end cinematic films. Her films are often character-driven, socially relevant and debate generating documentaries. Mira has won several awards for all of her films, latest the prestigious Bodil award for best documentary of the year, for the touching REUNITED about a Syrian doctor becoming separated from her two children during their attempt to escape war. Mira Jargil graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 2011.
Christian Sønderby Jepsen graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2007. He’s a director, producer and owner of the renowned Danish production company, Moving Documentary. He’s been an executive producer on international feature documentaries such as REUNITED and NATURAL DISORDER, which premiered in the main competition at IDFA. He has also directed multiple feature length documentaries, among them THE WILL. Christian has won more than 15 international awards for his film throughout his career.
