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You are still somebody's someone

You Are Still Somebody's Someone is a documentary from a daughter to her father. A film on the blurry paths of memory and the love for the person behind the diagnosis. 

In a dreamy realm of nature and with an abstract use of archival footage You Are Still Somebody’s Someone takes us on a journey of the sensing and discovery of memory of a now estranged relation.

You Are Still Somebody's Someone is a documentary from a daughter to her father. A film on the blurry paths of memory and the love for the person behind the diagnosis. 

In a dreamy realm of nature and with an abstract use of archival footage You Are Still Somebody’s Someone takes us on a journey of the sensing and discovery of memory of a now estranged relation.

Sombre images of summer twilight and 8mm archive film from years past frame the universe along with the sound recordings from the director’s childhood. The film tells the story of the director’s own father who broke off the contact with her many years ago. Like a child absorbed in tiny details of plants and leaves, we are watching as she’s creating her own world while experiencing her father engulfed in a newfound religious awakening.

The blurry paths of memory are revealing themselves like a painting of potent colours and unsettling shadows - unfolding the story of the religious father and his worsening mental condition as an increasing darkness.

The past weave itself in and out of the present along with the now adult daughter telling the story of her father’s evolving illness. 

Facts
Original titel: 
Vi lader billedet stå et øjeblik
Year of production: 
2017
Length: 
24 minutter
Director: 
Esther Wellejus
Script Writer: 
Esther Wellejus
Producer: 
Mathilde Hvid Lippmann
Cinematographer: 
Esther Wellejus
Editor: 
Anna Heide
Sound: 
Thomas Arent
Music: 
Lasse Aagaard
Graphics: 
Peter Folkmar
Festivals
CPH:DOX 2017
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
Odense Film Festival 2017
Open City Documentary Festival 2017
Don't fear the weird Festival 2017
Astra Film Festival 2017
Contact
Festival distribution: 
mathilde@madeincopenhagen.dk
International sales: 
mathilde@madeincopenhagen.dk
All other queries: 
mathilde@madeincopenhagen.dk