CPH:DOX 2025 – Fantastic Family / En fantastisk familie

Who remembers what? And is it even possible to talk about right and wrong when talking about memories and memory? These questions hang over Nicoline Skotte’s debut film, in which she delves into the great childhood trauma of her life: her parents’ dramatic divorce. It’s been 27 years since then. They have never really talked about what happened, and now neither the father, mother or daughter remember the events in the same way. The only thing they agree on is that it wasn’t very pretty, to put it nicely. That’s why Nicoline now invites her parents to meet again and face the past at last. But can you reconcile if you can’t agree on what really happened? ‘A Fantastic Family’ is an uncompromising film that explores family life, memories and repression with both tenderness and humour. An original family story about the unspoken, about Jehovah’s Witnesses, about taking city life to the provinces, and about breaking free from the chains that our origins put on our shoulders.