Category: Narrative documentary
Release: Sundance Film Festival 2023
Countries of production: Greenland, Denmark, Canada
Running time: 90 min.
Director & co-writer: Lin Alluna
Writer: Aaju Peter
Producers: Emile Hertling Péronard, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Stacey Aglok & Bob Moore
Synopsis: Aaju Peter is a force of nature. She is a renowned Inuit lawyer and activist who defends the human rights of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, and a fierce protector of her ancestral lands. She works to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice, and deploys her effusive spirit and illuminating wit to provoke self-examination and personal responsibility among Westerners for imposing their colonial ways. As Aaju launches an effort to establish an Indigenous forum at the European Union, she also embarks upon a complex and deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds, including the unexpected passing of her youngest son.
In this inspiring, emotionally powerful documentary, the beautiful lens of director Lin Alluna journeys alongside an extraordinary human being as she plumbs through the social and personal wreckage of sanctioned white dominance to find the strength — within her abilities, her community, and her own vulnerabilities — to transform her hardships and painful experiences into something amazing that can inspire others who also struggle with the poisonous effects of colonialism.
(project description by Sundance Film Festival)
Screened at: 2023 Sundance Film Festival, 2023 CPH:DOX
Pitched at: 2022 Canes Marché du Film, 2021 CPH:DOX, 2020 DOK Leipzig, 2019 Hotdocs, 2019 Below Zero, 2019 Nordisk Panorama, 2017 Nordic Talents
Cover photo: Angela Gzowski Photography
Gardens of Dust
Category: Documentary, experimental
Year of production: 2016
Countries of production: Denmark, Jordan
Running time: 20 min.
Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Lin Alluna
Sound Designer: Toke Gelardi
Composers: Peter Jørgensen & Mikkel Hedegaard
Synopsis:
Humming as he goes, a bedouin boy wanders towards the night, while clouds of agitation gather over a young, Syrian couple in the city. Gardens of Dust is an apocalyptic essay film about longing and love.
2017 TIFF, Albania
2017 Corrida, France
2016 Roma Cinema DOC, Italy
2016 Wollongong Film Festival, Australia
WHISPERING REVOLUTION
Category: Documentary, Human rights
Year of production: 2015
Countries of production: Bangladesh, Denmark
Running time: 25 min.
Director: Lin Alluna
Producer: Anna Malmkjær Willumsen
Cinematography by: Troels Rasmus Jensen
Editor: Jenna Mangulad
Sound Designer: Catrine le Dous
Logline:
Shammi Haque is an activist and aspiring journalist from Bangladesh, who wants equality for the Indigenous people of Chittagong who are fighting for their life, while being brutalized by Bengali settlers. She sets off to start a revolution.
2017 Dramathon, England
2016 Equality Festival, Ukraine
2014 DANIDA, Denmark
DA CORONAEN RAMTE MARCO EFFEKTEN
Category: TV-documentary, behind the scenes
Release: 2021
Country of production: Denmark
Running time: 37 min.
Director, writer & cinematographers: Lin Alluna & Sybilla Tuxen
Producer: Nawa Al-ani
Synopsis: During the production of a new thriller, covid spreads through Europe and the cast and crew must find ways to navigate the new virus.
TONER AF Ø
Category: Documentary
Year of production: 2016
Countries of production: Denmark
Running time: 25 min.
Director: Lin Alluna
Producer: Zire Schucany
Cinematography by: Eddie Klint
Editor: Mark Bukdahl
Sound Designer: Rune Kristiansen
Composers: Johan Carøe & Rasmus Møldrup
Logline:
A woman in an existentialistic dilemma, is looking for a sound that can heal her from her fear.
ECHOES OF UTOPIA
Category: Documentary
Year of production: 2017
Countries of production: Denmark
Running time: 28 min.
Director: Lin Alluna
Cinematographer: Agapi Triantafillidis
Editor: Jenna Mangulad
Sound Designer: Rune Kristiansen
Producer: Daniel Mühlendorph
Composer: Johan Carøe
Synopsis:
Between hazy days of pudgy baby cheeks and new motherhood, Linea is looking to find herself in the love she’s lost and the love that isn’t there yet.
EYES OF THE NIGHT
STILL IN PRODUCTION!
Category: Documentary, Romance, LGBT
Year of production: 2016
Countries of production: Lebanon, Denmark
Running time: 50 min.
Director: Lin Alluna
Cinematography by: Agapi Triantafillidis
Logline:
About love.
FATHER
Category: Documentary
Year of production: 2013
Country of production: Sri Lanka, Denmark
Running time: 15 min.
Director: Lin Alluna
Cinematography by: Balthazar Hertel & Lin Alluna
Editor: Lin Alluna
Logline:
11 years ago, Thor’s father left his family and his career as a highly esteemed doctor, to become a Buddhist monk on a tea mountain in Sri Lanka. They haven't seen each other since.
CONNECTED
Category: Science-fiction
Year of production: 2008
Country of production: Denmark
Running time: 8 min.
Director: Jens Raunkjær Christensen & Jonas Drotner Mouritsen
Producer: Hui Rose
Cinematography by: Niels A. Hansen
Caster/Production Assistant: Lin Alluna
Support: Det Danske Filminstitut
Synopsis:
Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive.