In Your Arms

When Maria (Lisa Carlehed) meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish – to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort. Maria doesn't sympathise with Niels's wish, on the contrary, but in him she finds something that she has been missing from her life. Samanou A. Sahlstrøm's directorial debut is a gripping drama, featuring excquisite cinematography by Brian Curt Petersen and an utterly brilliant Lisa Carlehed in the lead role. Her ability to project inner emotions is astounding and sure to leave no one unaffected.

"Equal parts road movie, chamber play, tragedy and love story, the film follows its protagonists on an odyssey that takes them from Denmark through Germany to Switzerland. There is much to admire in the strong, sometimes naked, never sentimental acting of Carlehed and Plaugborg, sensitively captured in close-up by director of photography Brian Curt Petersen, as well as the expressive editing by expert cutter Theis Schmidt." – Vancouver Film Festival

Denmark 2015