A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again.
Anna Sofie Hartmann (Nakskov, Denmark. 1984) studied at the European Film College in Aarhus for eight months. After moving to Berlin, she documented the life and working process at the studio of artist Olafur Eliasson. In 2008 she started studying directing at the DFFB in Berlin. Having made several short films, she premiered her first feature, Limbo (2014) in the New Directors section of the San Sebastian Festival. The film was invited to numerous festivals, including Rotterdam, South by Southwest and Gothenburg, and was nominated for the European Film Academy’s Discovery Award. Giraffe premiered out of competition at the last Locarno Festival.