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COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST Directed by: Martin Skovbjerg DK, 2023 Ida is in her twenties and comes from a well-off family. One day she goes missing without a trace. Her lover, Sander, volunteers to be locked in an apartment so that Ida’s father and brother can question him. The fun-loving unemployed man’s intentions are inscrutable – he lives in pleasant memories about his and Ida’s romantic fatalism of the “us against the whole world” variety. In a tirade of questions and answers, Sander does not reveal the whole truth, becoming an unreliable narrator. But does he even have the answers? Or is Ida’s disappearance just “his story”? Nominated for awards at film festivals in Rotterdam, Gothenburg, Las Palmas and elsewhere, Danish director Martin Skovbjerg’s film is a minefield of fragmented memories. It centres on the paradoxes of storytelling as it deals with the disappearance of Ida (played by Angela Bundalovic from Nicolas Winding Refn’
