Alamo Drafthouse Celebrates the Best of Danish Cinema

Queen of Hearts and Holiday are now available on demand from Alamo Drafthouse.

The famous independent theater chain is currating a new “six pack” of Danish films on the last Thursday of every other month. This month celebrates female filmmakers, and we are so excited to be included in this series!

Find all the films available from Alamo Drafthouse here.

 

 

About director May el-Toukhy:

May el-Toukhy was born in Charlottenlund, Denmark and attended the National Film School of Denmark. Her first feature film, LONG STORY SHORT (2015), follows a group of friends over 30 in changing, complex, and imperfect relationships, set over eight different gatherings through the years.

May el-Toukhy truly exploded on the scene with her follow-up film QUEEN OF HEARTS, which won the Audience Award at Sundance and took almost all honors at the Danish Film Awards.

In an interview with Medium at Sundance, May spoke about the stories that excite her: “I have longed to see complex and nuanced female characters on screen. I think on-screen equality is not going to happen if we just reproduce the same old good-natured female characters. We have to dare to expose both women that do good and women that do bad in order to be relevant for a contemporary audience.”

She is currently working on a biopic of the extraordinary and complex life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who wrote Out of Africa and Babette’s Feast and lived on an African cattle and coffee farm amidst the battles of World War I.