Screening times:
Friday, Feb 28, 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 2, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Magnus Von Horn | Denmark, Sweden, Poland | 2024 | 115m
Danish with English subtitles
with Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, and Ava Knox Martin
A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, The Girl With The Needle is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world. Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn’s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to survive in post-First World War Copenhagen.
When she ends up unemployed, abandoned, and pregnant, the charismatic Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm) takes her in to help run an underground adoption agency for unwanted children. The two women form an unexpected bond, until Karoline makes a discovery that changes everything.
The Girl With The Needle is a period Scandi-noir, inspired by true events surrounding the most controversial murder case in Danish history. A national trauma that echoes through time and can still remind us of what it means to turn a blind eye to the horrors in society. It presents a masterful vision with profound contemporary resonance. Fans of Robert Eggers' gothic triumph, Nosferatu, might detect a chilling kinship in von Horn's ode to expressionist film of the 1920s.
Denmark’s Best International Feature Film entry to the Academy Awards also features EFA-nominated performances from Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, gorgeous cinematography by EO’s Michał Dymek, and a spellbinding score by Frederikke Hoffmeier.
"Its answers are uneasy and disquieting, and the true root of its horror." - Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
"A harrowing and eerie horror fairy tale from another time, even as it feels startlingly fresh and always unpredictable." - Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
"It’s a remarkable film: bleak, but horribly compelling." - Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)
Winner: Golden Frog - International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage 2024
Winner: European Production Design, European Music Score - European Film Awards 2024
Winner: Fipresci Award - Göteborg Film Festival 2024
Winner: Top Five International Films - National Board of Review New York 2024
Winner: Silver Lions - Gdynia Film Festival 2024
Sunday is a half-capacity screening
