International documentary film festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

The Mountains (The Mountains)

Christian Einshøj

The Mountains

Two decades after the tragic death of his brother, the director Christians Einshøj's family is falling apart. But when his CEO dad is unexpectedly let off and decides to sell the family home, Christian goes back home in a final desperate attempt to assemble the family and recover what is lost. Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75.000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, he ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to confront a 25-year old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake. It's a story of fathers and sons, of long-distance business-class flights and all the other ways in which we flee, instead of talking about that which hurts – and of the redemption that can follow when the silence is eventually breached.

Denmark 2023, '89

DIRECTOR: Christian Einshøj

SCENARIO: Christian Einshøj

CAMERA: Christian Einshøj

MONTAGE: Christian Einshøj

MUSIC: Toke Brorson Odin

PRODUCERS: Mathilde Hvid Lippmann

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Hot Docs: Best International Documentary (2023)
Visions du Réel (2023)

Christian Einshøj

Christian Einshøj

Christian Einshøj is a self-taught director and film editor born in Denmark in 1985 but raised in a Norwegian suburb. His editing credits include Bodil award winning Q’s Barbershop (2019). In 2018 his short doc Haunted was awarded Best International Short at HotDocs and went on to play at festivals around the world. The Mountains is his first feature. 

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