S1.E2 ∙ Portraits and the Nation

Josephine works as a babysitter in Athens. She returns to Sri Lanka one Christmas to meet her children after an absence of 10 years.

Svend has 16 children, the four youngest with Gitte, who he is now divorcing after a very turbulent, 28 year long marriage. This decision collides with their youngest daughter Christina's decision to move. this drastic change in the family gives rise to a series of questions, especially for Christina, who is about to enter adulthood without really remembering her childhood. For example, Christina would like to know, why her and her siblings were forcibly removed from home as children. But Svend and Gitte seem to suffer from a rare kind of memory lapse and are not able to come up with a reasonable answer to this question. They both think that the forced removal was based on false accusations by a close relative.

A documentary about the aspirations and hopes of three young women living in different world capitals.

'Journey to the Maggot Feeder' tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Nordic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend- The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative finds misunderstanding in the western audiences and Priit takes off to a journey to Chukotka where deeper layers of the story and local culture start to unfold. This anthropological road movie deals with the importance of storytelling in human life, inviting the viewers to undertake a journey into the depths of their inner world.