Nilas Røpke Driessen

Mathias Klavsen(18)

Before we disappeared / Før vi forsvandt

Director：Mads Damborg & Mathias Klavsen (19 and 18 years old )  / Denmark / 2025 / 10 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanes

Karla is going around the city asking for money from people. The evening takes a turn when she bumps into a previous partner, Silja. They　start talking about their previous history and their current life. They decide to go to Siljas place, where the mood gets.
Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF.

Mads Damborg(19)

Before we disappeared / Før vi forsvandt

Director：Mads Damborg & Mathias Klavsen (19 and 18 years old )  / Denmark / 2025 / 10 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanes

Karla is going around the city asking for money from people. The evening takes a turn when she bumps into a previous partner, Silja. They　start talking about their previous history and their current life. They decide to go to Siljas place, where the mood gets.
Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF.

Maya Rajchenbach(19)

nuovo

Director：Maya Rajchenbach (19 years old ) / Denmark / 2025 / 16 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanese

In a near future, where technology can erase selected memories, 19-year-old Isla faces an existential decision.Should she erase he negative memories of her father and start over

orkeep the pain of the past and live with its consequences?

Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF

Charlie Kopfer(17)

Wide awake / Lysvågen

Director：Charlie Kopfer (17 years old )  / Denmark / 2025 / 7 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanese

Astrids most nerve wracking exam is tomorrow morning, but she can’t fall asleep – the music blasting from her noisy neighbour is too much.In her frustrated state, she decides to take revenge.

Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF

Axel Marjus Frederiksen(16)

Too late / For sent

Director：Axel Marjus Frederiksen (16 years old )  / Denmark / 2025 / 8 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanese

Anton is going on a date, but while he’s waiting on the bus he gets distracted by a mysterious man, whom Anton follows. The man drops a terrifying picture which Anton picks up. Afterwards the situation develops into a surreal nightmare.

Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF

Lauge Henriksen(16)

Interraption

Director：Lauge Henriksen  (16 years old ) / Denmark / 2025 / 5 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanese

Fritz goes to watch a movie, but gets interrupted by Gerda. A battle unfolds in the audience in the movie theatre.

Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF

Magnus Noer Helleberg(15)

15 years old

 Date at eight 

Director：Magnus Noer Helleberg (15 years old ) / Denmark / 2025 / 5 min / Danish / Subtitles：English･Japanese

Date at eight is about a young man,who’s forgotten that he has a date.His apartment is a mess, and he hasn’t cooked anything,and in a couple of minutes a date is going to be knocking on his door. 

Invited Films: Recommended by The Next Film Festival – OFF

Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken

Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken (b. 1986) is a writer/director born and raised in Tasiilaq, East Greenland. Now based in Copenhagen, Denmark, his work as a storyteller, on film or podcast, often takes him back to his adolescence in East Greenland.
As a filmmaker, he seeks a high level of authenticity in his characters and their environment through an investigative approach and naturalistic style to follow.
His newest SHORT film THE THIEF (2025) has been selected for Berlinale 2025.

Hilke Rönnfeldt

Born on the Baltic Sea coast in northern Germany, and of Danish-Icelandic descent, Hilke Ronnfeldt is a screenwriter and director.

She graduated in screenwriting from the Swedish Alma Education program, and in directing from the independent film school Super16 in Copenhagen. She has also been selected for Berlinale Talents, Oxbelly Episodic Lab and European Short Pitch. Her films have been screened at numerous international festivals, and her latest short, A STUDY OF EMPATHY, won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival 2023.

Her work explores rural communities, the world of work, intimacy and the sea. She firmly believes in the poetic power of the image.