The best Jacob Ottensten’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jacob Ottensten’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jacob Ottensten.
Worlds Apart
7/10
17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.
October Boy
7.6/10
14-year-old Thomas moves to the city. In school he meets Mads and Emma, who are interested in him for different reasons.
Brainy
7.2/10
11 years old Brian is an imaginative boy who is dealing with the loss of his grandfather by constructing a fantastic series of rituals...
Anti
4.5/10
Simon and Frede lives in a provincial village south of Copenhagen.
The year is 1991, and if you don't like watching football, there are few alternatives.
Simon is good at drawing, and is reminded over and over again that this is a useless talent.
An American grafitti video opens the eyes of Simon, for the American sub-culture, and a trip to
Copenhagen increases his fascination for this form of art. Simon make Frede accompany him to the capital, where they join the grafitti group CHAOZ
Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide
6.7/10
Worlds collide in more ways than one in this stunning collection. Confidence is violated, classes clash and desire is concealed, yet love still triumphs regardless of the consequences.
An Afternoon
6.4/10
Mathias has decided that today is the day, that he'll let Frederik know he is in love with him. But when the time comes, is he ready to make the first move?
Deliver Us from Evil
6.5/10
In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price.
An Evening
6.3/10
Having slept together for the first time, two teenage boys must make sense of their evolving relationship.
Boys on Film 18: Heroes
6.5/10
Boys On Film comes of age with uplifting and powerful tales recounting the lives of everyday heroes striving for their own identities and fighting for the right for us all to be ourselves. Volume 18: Heroes includes ten complete films: Dean Loxton's "Dániel" starring Csémy Balázs, Hilda Péter, and Henry Garrett; Niels Bourgonje's "Buddy" starring Daniel Cornelissen and Tobias Nierop; Tamara Shogaolu's animated "Half A Life"; Victor Lindgren's "Undress Me" starring Jana Bringlöv Ekspong and Björn Elgerd; Sam Ashby's "The Colour Of His Hair" starring Sean Hart and Josh O'Connor; Hope Dickson Leach's "Silly Girl" starring Ciara Baxendale, Mollie Lambert, and Jason Barker; Søren Green's "An Evening" starring Jacob Ottensten and Ulrik Windfeldt-Schmidt; Alejandro Medina's documentary "AIDS: Doctors And Nurses Tell Their Stories"; Kai Stänicke's "It's Consuming Me" with Volkmar Leif Gilbert; and Mikael Bundsen's "Mother Knows Best" starring Alexander Gustavsson and Hanna Ullerstam.
Bleed
Lars and Peter
6.3/10
Lars (9) is naive and innocent, all he wants is for his father to be happy and his family to be together. Lars' mother is gone and life has been empty and dysfunctional without her. On the eve of his birthday, Lars' dad, Peter, gets himself drunk and after an embarrassing argument with the next-door neighbor, Alma, masturbates in the backyard. Lars sees everything. Now things are worse than ever. Lars is all alone, struggling to understand what he has seen, he has to figure everything out by himself...
Outside Love
6/10
Shmuli is alone with his 5 years old son and lives with his parents. He works as security guard to make money to fulfill his dream of moving to USA. He falls in love with the young and beautiful Amina, but their love is troubled as he is Jewish and she is from Pakistan.
