Norwegian director Gunnar Hall Jensen He made a brand for his fun and strange self -photography, in which he finds his reflections on life as a global resonance. His last movie, “A picture of a disorganized father”, started to explore his relationship with his son, and the drawings on footage filmed for 20 years. Three weeks before filming, he heard, he heard that his son had been killed.
Hall Jensen speaks to diverse About how he found the courage to complete his movie amid his tremendous sadness of his family. The trailer of the film, which has its first international show on Sunday in Cph: doxFor the first time below.
A very personal documentary is a hearty and crude story of middle -aged control, who is struggling to communicate with his challenging son. It is a love story, difficulty and beauty of fatherhood, but also from loss.
We see Gunnar – the director/the protagonist – who is doing his best to communicate with his only rebellious son, while moving in his traditional and spontaneous concepts a little about masculinity. While Jonathan turns into a young man united with self-confidence and tests his own borders, Gunnar feels confused, like any parents with children from Gen Z, but also because Gunnar’s father-a captain on a tourist ship in the Caribbean-was never for him.
Then when Jonathan is 18 years old, things go south. The young man disappears for weeks, after emptying his loyal novels. When Gunnar finally found him, Jonathan lives a completely different life in Brazil with a male social media effect with more than 10 million followers. It depends on the promise of easy money and a world of excessive male, and Jonathan begins to lose control. One day, Gunnar gets a phone call that will change his family’s life forever. Jonathan, 21, was attacked. Follow the period of sadness and reconstruction, where Gunnar – who separated from Umm Jonathan – returns with her.
Talk to diverse About his experience, Hall Jensen says: “Three weeks before the filming is complete [in November 2023] I have received the message that parents fear more than others: the killing of Jonathan – 21 years old. After the horrific news, I really wanted to die myself. It was too much. The beautiful nature of Jonathan was cut off, and was removed from the world at an early age.
“Something has been broken inside an irreplaceable.
First, he is a representative of love between the son and the father, and the difficulty and reward.
Second, I also saw that the film represents a link to the times we live in [inherent] Risks. How easy is that a young man in the chaotic today is wasted with twisted ideas on how to succeed and become rich, and it is enhanced by today’s teachers, coaches and influencers on the Internet.
“Third, we have a large collection of books and films about the mother/daughter’s relationships, but very few authentic stories about parents and children.”
Hall Jensen says, to complete the movie, going to his son’s footage was very difficult, and included “a lot of tears and suffering.” However, the director developed a method.
“During the day, through the article, my feelings were closed as a father as much as possible. I noticed the material as a film director.
Two decisive people were helping Hall Ginsen to organize his novel and find the correct tone: his editor -in -law is Erlend Haarr Eriksson, and an editor of assignment to BBC Storyville Lucie Kon, who took the project at an early stage through the sales agent of the movie Dr Sales.
“Lucy bought a personal movie about the father and son who was trying to contact. Then, after the tragedy, I decided to move forward in the movie and include the tragedy and what led to it. Lucy remained on board,” says Hall Jensen. “It was difficult for me to change the movie from a playful documentary and artistic era technically to a more clarified work, but Lucy helped a lot, whether in directing the scenes that now seemed unrelated, with sharpening the story more clarifying, with no level or doing it myself.”
One of the challenges in the text program was to set the date for the announcement of shocking news for the public. Hall Jensen says long discussions on this topic were held with Har Ericsson and Kun. The director says: There were two options: Either he would tell the tragedy while the story is revealed, in terms of time, or he would do so at the beginning, which is an option that he went to. This was not the natural way to tell the story from his point of view, Karawi, familiar with tragic events, but this was also a way to attract the attention of the audience, and then his decision to include the reminder of the tragedy through the sound at different periods. However, the director notes, the film “There is no story in any way, because it is the first and above all” a story about the father and the son, in an attempt to communicate. “
“I have a decent father is a difficult journey,” says Hall Ginsen, who remembers his son. I would also like to warn other fathers of the Internet risks, and the need to monitor children and adolescents. “
Kim Christiansen, executive producer, responsible for documentary films and joint production in Dr Sales, extends to the achievement of Hall Jensen. “It is incredible how Gunnar managed to complete the movie and we are very proud to present a” disorganized father “image for both the industry, especially the audience in the first global show in CPH: dox.
The film was produced by the best remarkable movie in Norway, which is attributed to the former Hall Jensen movie.Oh, Hirtz!((CPH: Dox, 2021), Håvard Bustnes Festival “Phantoms of the Sierra Madre” and “Two Graging Grannies. “
The film was produced by Ingrid AUNE FALCH, Christian Aune Falch and Torstein Parelius in the Upnorth, produced by Valerie Montartene and Anders Justin for France Little Beige and Suwaid Fezreland, with a universe in BBC Storyville. Jean Rovikamb and Faridi Newman works as executive producers.
After its shows at CPH: dox, the documentary will be released by Norsk Filmdistribusjon in Norway in August 2025 before the launch of NRK TV in Norway, Yle in Finland, Dr. in Denmark, SVT in Sweden, RTS in Switzerland, BBC in the United Kingdom and France Televans.
