HE'S MY BROTHER

Denmark 2021 – Director(s) Cille Hannibal, Christine Hanberg – 82 min – Spoken language: Danish – Subtitles: English

What does the world feel like with three sen­ses? A Danish family’s strugg­le for their son.“He was smal­ler than a milk car­ton,” Peter’s sis­ter as co-direc­tor Chris­ti­ne recalls her mother’s ear­liest sto­ries about the pre­ma­tu­re baby­’s birth. Peter, now 30 years old, is autis­tic, can neither see nor hear. Every day he feels and explo­res in his own way. “Peter will find his place,” his ill mother decla­res con­vin­cin­g­ly. Even though the­re are no sui­ta­ble pro­vi­si­ons in Den­mark for her deaf­blind son, she and her fami­ly care for him devo­ted­ly day in day out. A heart­ren­ding por­trait of a cou­ra­ge­ous fami­ly in the strugg­le for a digni­fied life for their son: tru­ly memorable.

“He was smal­ler than a milk car­ton,” Peter’s sis­ter as co-direc­tor Chris­ti­ne recalls her mother’s ear­liest sto­ries about the pre­ma­tu­re baby­’s birth. Peter, now 30 years old, is autis­tic, can neither see nor hear. Every day he feels and explo­res in his own way. “Peter will find his place,” his ill mother decla­res con­vin­cin­g­ly. Even though the­re are no sui­ta­ble pro­vi­si­ons in Den­mark for her deaf­blind son, she and her fami­ly care for him devo­ted­ly day in day out. A heart­ren­ding por­trait of a cou­ra­ge­ous fami­ly in the strugg­le for a digni­fied life for their son: tru­ly memo­rable. (Text: DOK.fest München)

Film talk with the directors

Denmark 2021 – Director(s) Cille Hannibal, Christine Hanberg – 82 min – Spoken language: Danish – Subtitles: English – Camera: Cille Hannibal, Christine Hanberg, Julie Bezerra Madsen – Sound: Rune Van Deurs – Editing: Sofie Steenberger, Cille Hannibal – Music: Sune Køter Kølster – Production: Final Cut for Real, Sant & Usant – Producers: Monica Hellström, Anita Rehoff Larsen

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