HANNAH ELBKE
Filmdirector
Hannah Elbke is an exciting up-and-coming director who graduated from the esteemed Danish Film School Super16. Her graduation film “Wild Minds” just won a Robert at the Danish Film Academy for ‘Best Short film - fiction and animation’. Hannah has worked as the director at the tv-series Akavet llll at DR Ultra and as the director's assistant on the popular Netflix tv-series The Rain. Her short film BLEED was nominated for a danish Film Academy Award last year and her first documentary “The Healing”, which she co-directed and co-edited with director Natalia Ciepiel, premiered at CPH:DOX ‘21. At the moment she is developing her first feature film.
Hannah’s work often centers around loneliness versus being part of a community and the threshold between action and passivity. She is passionate about creating universes that question, what we perceive as normal. Hannah loves to bring humour into her work through absurd and awkward situations that makes you want to laugh eventhough the topic is serious. She finds it important to tell about topics that make the audience reflect on how they encounter and engage with the world.
Press:
Interview in P1 Filmland