New Nordic Cinema: Long Story Short

Long Story Short (Lang historie kort) is the story of Ellen and her friends, all in their late 30s/early 40s, and their more or less self-inflicted complicated love life and longing for romantic redemption. The story is a summary of three years of love-related highs and lows for the group of friends told through eight chapters, each of them set at a party: on New Year’s Eve, a housewarming, Midsummer’s Eve, a wedding, a surprise party, a naming ceremony, an anniversary and a birthday. It is an ensemble story about a group of people who struggle with the conception of the perfect relationship and are bound to re-evaluate their take on what true love is.
Directed by May El-Toukhy (Denmark, 2015).