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Kalak

Play trailer Poster for Kalak 2023,  2h 5m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Jan is on the run from himself after being sexually abused by his father. Living in Greenland with his little family, he yearns to be a part of the open, collectivist culture and become a Kalak, a "dirty Greenlander".

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Jonathan Romney Screen International Sep 28, 2023
Kalak is nothing if not arresting – especially with its intensely unsettling lead performance from Emil Johnsen as a man enduring the long-gestating effects of trauma. Go to Full Review
David Jenkins Little White Lies Sep 26, 2023
The setting is what makes the film interesting and unique, even if the storytelling often leaves much to be desired... Go to Full Review
Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Oct 18, 2023
3.5/5
Eklöf also doesn’t deal in absolutes, allowing us to see that Jan is both damaged and damaging, not just to himself but others - a hot mess in a cold climate. Go to Full Review
Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain) Sep 27, 2023
4/5
Kalak is made from a sensation close to absence, from an initial repulsion that the director doses throughout the film with a pulse and a few drops of cruelty. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Carlos F. Heredero Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Sep 27, 2023
A film so ugly, so stylistically inane, so misguided in its planning, so arbitrary in its narratological construction, so mechanical in its internal dramaturgy and so obviously illustrative. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Isabella Eklöf

Director

Emil Johnsen

Jan

Anders Mossling

Søren

Søren Hellerup

Ole

Asta Kamma August

Actor

Allie Maggie Kvist

Amanda

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Kalak

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Movie Info

Synopsis Jan is on the run from himself after being sexually abused by his father. Living in Greenland with his little family, he yearns to be a part of the open, collectivist culture and become a Kalak, a "dirty Greenlander".
Director
Isabella Eklöf
Producer
Maria Møller Kjeldgaard
Screenwriter
Kim Leine, Kim Leine, Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, Isabella Eklöf, Isabella Eklöf, Kim Leine, Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen
Production Co
Manna Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Danish
Runtime
2h 5m
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