Cinema Thinks the World
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Free Admission

“A bittersweet existential dramedy that sees a magnificent Mads Mikkelsen lighting up the screen with one of the all-time great movie dance sequences, it’s a triumph as tactile as it is tragic.”

Chase Hutchinson, Seattle Times

What if the best instructors were always just a little bit drunk? In Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, four teachers test the theory that a blood-alcohol level of 0.5% can enhance creativity, confidence, and social ease. The results are initially promising: lessons become more engaging, inhibitions fall away, and students participate more. What could possibly go wrong? Faculty field trip to the liquor store! But this is Thomas Vinterberg, co-author of the infamous Dogme 95 manifesto and director of The Celebration and The Hunt. Vinterberg has never been interested in letting good intentions go unpunished and things unravel spectacularly. While Another Round is an unusually buoyant entry—funny, exuberant, even celebratory—it is also characteristic of a filmmaker fascinated by the precarious boundary between liberation and catastrophe. What begins as an appealing fantasy becomes a poignant meditation on friendship, mortality, and the desire to feel completely alive.

In Danish with English subtitles

Panellists: Gabriel Bier Gislason, Christine Evans, Shaun Inouye, Ervin Malakaj
Moderators: Chelsea Birks, William Brown

This free screening is presented as part of ​“Cinema Thinks the World,” a partnership project between The University of British Columbia and The Cinematheque. After the film, there will be a short reception followed by a one-hour panel talk with audience discussion.

Please note: Unclaimed tickets for complimentary screenings at The Cinematheque will be released 15 minutes before showtime. Please arrive early to guarantee your seat.

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Gabriel Bier Gislason is a Danish writer-director. His acclaimed debut, the horror/romance Attachment, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. He holds an MFA from NYU’s graduate film program and has worked in script and translation departments on several Danish film and television productions.

Christine Evans is an assistant professor of teaching in Cinema Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on bridging film theoretical, psychoanalytic, and ideological approaches with evidence-based scholarly teaching in film and media studies.

Shaun Inouye is the artistic director of The Cinematheque. He has programmed films by national and international artists for over ten years, and published essays on Jean-Luc Godard, Harmony Korine, Ellie Epp, and Dana Claxton (forthcoming).

Ervin Malakaj is an assistant professor in German Studies, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, at UBC. His scholarship in film studies includes research on melodrama, slapstick, queer aesthetics, and periodical culture.

Chelsea Birks works at the Centre for Community Engaged Learning at UBC, where she connects faculty and students with community organizations to work on real-world social issues. She was The Cinematheque’s Learning & Outreach director from 2020 to 2025, and holds a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Glasgow.

William Brown is a filmmaker and an assistant professor in Cinema Studies, Department of Theatre and Film, at UBC. He is the author of numerous books, including Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream: Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media (with David H. Fleming).

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