CFF: As the Tide Comes In

Denmark, 2023, 89 mins.

DIRECTOR: Juan Palacios, Sofie Husum Johannesen

The 27 residents on the tiny island of Mandø in the Danish Wadden Sea are used to severe weather and flooding.

However, climate change and increasingly extreme weather now pose a serious threat to the eight-square-kilometre island. Its last farmer, Gregers, bravely faces the inevitable catastrophe.

He refuses to build a life elsewhere and instead, hopes to find a wife to manage the farm with him.

Co-directed by Juan Palacios and Sofie Husum Johannesen, this touching documentary is unafraid to interrogate the pertinent issues of the climate crisis, while caringly documenting Mandø's sense of community despite the new threats from nature.

A gorgeously shot, distinctive portrait of a changing time and an enduring place.

The Cambridge Film Festival is presented by the Cambridge Film Trust, a registered charity with a mission to foster film culture and education for the benefit of the public, in Cambridge, the Eastern region, and throughout the UK.