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In Camilla Magid’s ‘Fighting Demons With Dragons,’ Teenagers Battle Adulthood Anxieties With Educational Roleplay
In 'Fighting Demons With Dragons,’ Camilla Magid documents how one school has come up with alternative answers to mental health challenges.
“Mistrivsel” is a Danish word for unwellness, with a close English equivalent of “well-being deficit.” It is a noun whose proliferating use suggests that young people today are struggling in the world’s second happiest country, and increasingly so. Heidi Elise Christensen of Final Cut for Real serves as producer for these two titles, in addition to her involvement in last year’s Thessaloniki winner, “A House Made of Splinters.” Kerstin Übelacker of We Have a Plan and Lisa Nyed of Film i Skåne co-produce Magid’s latest from the Swedish side. At the same time, she recognized something particularly cinematic in the process of role-play unfolding, as they “kept being sucked into the narratives nevertheless, a love story here or a fight there would absorb our full attention.” The filmmaker felt a similar pull in the editing room, where a self-made sign read: “Don’t get caught in the rabbit hole.”
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