NEXT SUMMER

Feature documentary directed by Alexander Lind.

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Director: Alexander Lind
Producer: Jesper Jack, Julie Leerskov
Partners: New Danish Screen, Obscura / Vertigo

Produced by House of Real.

World premiere CPH:DOX 2017.

Næste Sommer / Next Summer - Official Trailer from Kong Gulerod Film on Vimeo.

Nebulas, self-hypnosis, Bornholm caves in red light. Documentaries about painful relationships between parents and children are not rare, but Alexander Lind’s first feature film definitely is. A father and his son live in Bornholm. The father, who is trying to leave his tumultuous pas behind him, suffering from depression, which his son fears to inherit. Unless he reconciles with his father, who himself has never come to terms with his own father. Worn VHS tapes from the family’s past serve as a testimony that the melancholy is passed on unless the vicious cycle is broken in time. ‘Next Sommer’ combines the Nordic tradition of difficult family portraits with an expressive, cinematic originality, which instead of removing itself from the picture demonstrates that it is possible to relate both humanly and artistically to the people whose lives have been documented.