A Year Forever (2020)

At the Kastanievej boarding school for lower secondary students, Isaac, Oskar and Sylvester are for the first time away from home, for an entire year. Filled with energy and curiosity, fear and confusion, they try to navigate everything from their first love and who they want to be to what might happen if they smear tiger balm under their eyes. The sensitivity and great rush of adolescence are attentively captured by the debut director Pauline Merrildgaard, who with her impressionistic film from the inside of a boyhood universe has made a name for herself as one of Danish film's great new talents. The feeling of being young in Copenhagen right now, portrayed spot-on.