ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS / EFTERSKOLEN
Documentary series in 6 episodes, 2021
In august 2019, 120 hopeful teenagers embark on a journey full of change, hope and dreams when they begin at the school, Klejtrup Musikefterskole. Some with the hope of getting new friends and putting traumas of bullying behind them. Others with the goal of overcoming this summer’s heartbreak or the wish to seek new adventures in a place far away from parents and familiar surroundings. All of them are looking for the experience of their lives.
The school year gives them the opportunity to redefine who they want to be and to change in the new relations they take part in. They meet at crucial time in each other’s life. They are connected and changed forever.
Director Thora Lorentzen
Producer Rikke Tambo Andersen
Editors Mark Bukdahl, Karolina Bengtsson
Cinematographers Sybilla Tuxen, Jacob Sofussen, Assa Rytter, Sebastian Bjerregaard, William Wivel, Thora Plaugborg Lorentzen
With the support of Danish Film Institute, Tone Mygind Rostbøll, DR3, Signe Bruntse, The West Danish Film Fund
Awards and festivals Best European TV Documentary Series at Prix Europa 2021 & Buster Film Festival 2021
Nordic Rights ReInvent Studios
TRAILER
Thora Lorentzen
With an educational background as a journalist and a filmmaker, Thora has contributed to DR TV with a number of tv documentaries while becoming increasingly interested in an elevated personal storytelling. Her previous titles, presented at festivals worldwide, include “This Place We Call Home”, “Love and Fear” and “Enten Eller”, the film that concluded her studies at the National Film School of Denmark as film director. Her debut project since film school - the youth documentary series “Absolute Beginners” won the Prix Europa for Best European Documentary Series 2021.