WHEN ANIMALES DREAM

World Sales: Gaumont international

In a remote Danish shing village, 16-year-old Marie, a girl of strange beauty, is diagnosed with lycanthropy, a condition inherited from her mother, who is contained by drugs and contained to a wheelchair. Marie refuses her mother’s fate and is ercely determined to assume her condition, in a community that turns against her.
Arnby shuns the cheesier codes of the werewolf subgenre for an intimate portrait of a young girl, coping with changes in her body and a new, hybrid human identity, inherently prone to violence. Viewers will engage with her, in this multi-layered horror film, metaphorically evoking the failings of a conformist society that suppresses di erence.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 10:15pm at the Star St-Ex

Thursday, September 24th, 1:30pm at the Star St-Ex

Sunday, September 27th, 2:00pm at the Star St-Ex

Infos

Country: Denmark

Year: 2014

Duration: 1hr 25min

Version: Danish, with English and French subtitles

Rating: 12+

Cast & Credits

Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby

Producers: Caroline Schulter Bingestam, Ditte Milsted

Screenplay: Rasmus Birch

Cinematography: Niels Thastum

Editing: Peter Brandt

Music: Mikkel Hess

Cast: Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter