Resin

Harpiks

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Liv, a thirteen-year-old adolescent, her fixated father and her bedridden mother reside in a remote island. They are a hermit family, living off the land, completely cut off from the outside world. Their prison-like sanctuary, though, is about to stagger as Liv’s curiosity builds up: she raises objections as to her parents’ worldview, digging up ineffable secrets of the family past. A bucolic and brutal drama, in which nature is presented idyllic and stifling, limitless and claustrophobic, mirroring the protagonists’ relationships and conflicts. A mystic and nightmarish variation on traditional Nordic folk tales, that descends into the depths of paranoia and violence.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Daniel Joseph Borgman
Script: Bo hr. Hansen
Cinematography: Louise McLaughlin
Editing: Sofie Marie Kristensen
Sound: Anne Gry Friis Kristensen, Sigrid DPA Jensen
Music: Anne Gry Friis Kristensen, Andreas Pallisgaard
Actors: Peter Plaugborg, Vivelill Søgaard Holm, Sofie Gråbøl, Ghita Nørby, Amanda Collin
Production: Zentropa Productions2, Adomeit Film
Producers: Katja Adomeit, Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Sets: Josephine Farsø
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Denmark
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 92´
Contact: TrustNordisk, info@trustnordisk.com

Daniel Joseph Borgman

Daniel Joseph Borgman studied Film Science in his native New Zealand and moved to Copenhagen, where he graduated in Directing from the alternative film school Super 16 and worked as a visual effects artist and a film colourist in numerous film productions. His short film Lars and Peter and Berik were both selected for Cannes, the latter winning the Grand Jury Prize at the International Critic’s Week section. His first two feature films Weight for Elephants and Loving Pia were screened at the Berlinale, while his third feature Resin premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Filmography

2009 Lars og Peter | Lars and Peter (short)
2010 Berik (short)
2013 The Weight of Elephants
2017 At elske Pia | Loving Pia
2019 Harpiks | Resin