International Competition

The years of adolescence are the most turbulent and most brutal period of one’s life. Abiding by the rules of Von Trier’s ‘dogumentarism’, the director has made an unbiased insight into the lives of high-school kids from the small Norwegian town of Hauketo; she has caught them in the moment of forming their racial, cultural, religious and political attitudes and prejudices. She shows how delicate and emotional the problem of identity is and how the existing educational system is often not capable of dealing with it.