The Why Foundation film programme

23 April– 19 May Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present a film programme by The Why Foundation with four films.

Christoffer Guldbrandsen: The Road to Europe, 2003 (56 min.)
The Road to Europe is the controversial documentary that stirred an international debate and caused a crisis in the relationship between the Danish Prime Minister and his counterparts in France and Germany. The film follows the Danish Prime Minister and EU President, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as he leads the negotiations towards the Union’s enlargement. The documentary provides a revelatory insight into what EU leaders really think of Turkey’s application for membership.

Christoffer Guldbrandsen: The President, 2011 (59 min.)
In January 2009, a historical moment was planned to take place in the account of the European Union – the 27 member states were to elect the first permanent President of the EU. This film will explore the core of European political power, with cultures dating back centuries, which includes drama, intrigues, vanity and greed. Mostly it is the story about the decisive clash between those who wish for a united Europe and those who oppose it.

Firas Fayyad & Henrik Grunnet: My Escape, 2016 (45 min.)
The film focuses on the largest refugee crisis since the World War II – through the eyes of two boys, Ghaith and Abdul, out of the many thousands of children who are fleeing alone. Their journey to Europe is told from their point of view, and they have recorded some of it themselves with their own mobile cameras.

Sean McAllister: The Crisis and the Sunglasses, 2012 (2.55 min)
A tragicomic narrative about how a family father in Greece is offered to sell sunglasses as compensation by the state after the state has demolished his house to make a landfill expansion.

Nick Fraser & Ben Lewis: R.U.E.U?, 2000 (75 min.)
A hypnotic trip around the European Union (or the idea of European Union) is based on a variety of motion through a labyrinth. A British reporter Nick Fraser owns a BBC reporter’s card, which should open all the doors in every office. He visits various Brussels and Strasbourg institutions (pertinently their Western European regional reflections). He confronts the impeccable artificiality and the mysterious abstraction of the institutions with two journeys to the outskirts of Europe, namely to villages in Poland as well as towns in Romania. Of course, he doesn’t forget his Polaroid camera.

The film programme is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema throughout the opening hours.