As the Tide Comes In

Synopsis

The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. However, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.

Director Biography

Juan Palacios (b. 1986, Basque Country, Spain) is a filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Educated in Environmental Studies and Audiovisual Communication, With a particular predilection for the boundaries between human culture and the non-human, mysticism and materialism, he mostly employs imagery from a natural world to create an alternative universe. His first feature documentary film, PEDALÓ, was awarded at San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2016.

Sofie Husum Johannesen has a background in Visual Anthropology from Aarhus University and has worked as a core part of Elk Film’s production and producer team since 2017. She has worked alongside world-renowned filmmakers on titles such as The Lost Leonardo (2022), See Me as I Am (2022), Aswang (2019), The Great Game (2018), among others. As the Tide Comes In is Sofie’s debut in directing.