White Elephant (nzoku ya pembe)

Director: Kristof Bilsen

Year: 2011

How do you grieve when you are in your late twenties? Four years ago, the filmmaker lost his sister. Kristof decides to visit his parents to ask them how they cope with the absence. Back in the UK, an unexpected visit questions memories of her.

Director: Kristof Bilsen

Year: 2011

The director discovers in late 50`s family archive a Belgium where citizens seem to be in an state of cultural and ethnic harmony. This road movie reveals the present-day Flemish-Walloon tension, swinging between linguistic exclusivity and nationalistic exhibiton, in the midst of a globalisation process that makes identity clarification difficult.

Director: Therese Henningsen

Year: 2025

Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him. As her father gradually slips back into the depression that made him absent when she was a teenager, she feels a need to document this transition. Her compulsion to enter into Pete’s life and to film him echoes with her desire for understanding her father’s experience of isolation and loneliness, as well as her own relationship to it. ALL THESE SUMMERS asks questions about responsibility in life and in film whilst intimately confronting the complexities of the daughter-father and filmmaker-subject relationship. Official Selection CPH DOX 2025