CPH:DOX 2025 - All These Summers

With an open approach and without a clearly defined intention, filmmaker Therese Henningsen explores her relationship with two men in her immediate vicinity: Her neighbor Pete in London and her father in Denmark. 

As time passes, the attention elicits a response from both of them. The camera changes every situation. A cinematic dilemma that Henningsen makes part of her practice. With a handheld camera and an unwavering gaze, Henningsen opens up a relational method that raises a number of complex questions. What presence can a cinematic encounter make possible? How does the cinematic relationship affect experiences of loneliness and isolation? 

When her father is diagnosed with cancer and slips back into the depression that made him absent when she was a teenager, the situation paves the way for a reflection on their relationship as daughter and father, and as filmmaker and subject.