Empire

Section: Focus nordic
Title: Viften
Director: Frederikke Aspöck
Cast: Anna Neye, Sara Fanta Traore, Claus Riis Østergaard, Jesper Groth, Tyler Errol Murray, Jesper Asholt
Duration: 1h 33m
Country: Denmark
Year: 2023

St. Croix, the Danish West Indies, the year is 1848. Anna Heegaard and Petrine are close friends. Both women are colored, but their living conditions are very different – Anna is free and owns the enslaved Petrine. Anna shares a prosperous life with the Danish Governor-General Peter von Scholten and depends entirely on her trusted housekeeper Petrine. Things are seemingly fine until rumors of a rebellion begin to swirl.