SYNOPSIS

In ‘The Joy of Being’, we follow Balder and his first encounter with the world. Balder has just taken his first steps, and suddenly the world has opened up to him. He has discovered that you can eat raspberries off your fingertips. He has just learned to clap along to music. He has found out that smiles are infectious and that draping a blanket over your head can make you invisible. Through Balder’s curious eyes, everyday life transforms into a poetic journey of discovery, where every sound, shadow, and touch is met with wonder. A sensory and abstract drama that invites the audience to sense, feel, and rediscover the world as if for the first time. The Joy of Being focuses on the simple joy of a child who lives fully in the present, without worrying about who they are, what’s to come, or what could have been. It is a life-affirming story about the beauty in the imperfect and a quiet tribute to the present, to life, and to the world.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Emma Bruun Ruus

• Production

  Emma Lind

• Referent

  Emma Lind

• Sales

  Emma Lind

• Animation

  Susi Haaning

  Emma Bruun Ruus

  Amalia Eiron

  Matthew Ponquett

  Ida Lilja Jensen

• Editing

  Louis Emil Ramm Seeberg

• Film score composer

  Andreas K. Westmark

• Music used

  Andreas K. Westmark

• Sound designer

  Mathias Schmidt

• Sound Editing

  Mathias Schmidt

• Sound Mixing

  Mathias Schmidt

• Decors

  Clara Lucie Jetsmark Bjerre

• Cast / With

  Balder

• Camera

  Balder