EBS EIDF 2023 : The Mountains

Christian Einshøj’s debut feature, The Mountains, is an autobiographical story and family portrait. Home movies shot by his father show his now-deceased younger brother Christopher. After the loss of Christopher, there has been an unexplained distance and long silences among the family members, each of whom bottled up their loneliness, which they could not share with anyone. The director, who documented his family with a camera to follow his father’s practice, attempts to reconnect and reconstruct the vast home video archive of more than 30 years with his family in the present. The film won the Best International Feature Documentary Award and the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at this year’s Hot Docs in Canada.