Team Hurricane, Annika Berg, Denmark, 2017, 95’, DCP OV with Spanish subtitles (06/22 21:00 OV with Basque subtitles)
Summer in Denmark and eight teenage girls try to find their way out of their particular atomic age, that hurricane season that is adolescence. Mia, Ida, Sara, Eja, Maja, Zara, Mathilde and Ira confess in front of the camera, in the new way that those born in the YouTube generation do: everything is hyper, everything is extra and everything is macro. Hyperhappiness, hypersadness, hypercrying, hyperexistentialism, hyperintimacy, hyperabyss, hyperpop. They are noisy, vulgar, annoying, and vulnerable. They are young. It could be a documentary, and it is. It could be fiction, and it is. Eight young radicals and punks, who give of themselves to make a stylised and fluoride film, where everything shines, where everything is in strident, anime-style colours, where everything trembles and is alive as if it were about to explode and spin round in the air.
“I wanted to find something that I lost a long time ago, an authentic version of myself. Team Hurricane started as a search for that person. I remembered a photograph of myself when I was thirteen years old and I knew I had to immerse myself in that adolescence if I wanted to reach what I was really looking for. I knew it was about reliving the characteristics of that age that I had tried to hide or eliminate over time. And in that way, to re-empower myself, as well as other young women.”
Verona Film Club Award at the Critics’ Week of the Venice Festival 2017.
Summer in Denmark and eight teenage girls try to find their way out of their particular atomic age, that hurricane season that is adolescence.