According to Women, Peace and Security Index Denmark is the best country in the world to be a woman – they excel in education and build careers. But where does that leave Danish men? The Nicest Men on Earth is a tender, humorous, and affectionate group portrait of some of the sensitive and sweet men who find themselves disoriented by a loss of status and wavering self-esteem. The question is whether the country’s ambitious women even want the men they’ve left behind? Through three generations of men, the film tells a story of not being the best, of losing both at home and in the wider world, and of feeling stuck while everyone else rushes ahead. A humorous reflection on the new gender reality and our ingrained ideas about what it means to be a “real man.”
The Nicest Men On Earth are shown in an Inclusive Screening.
Denmark 2025, '78
DIRECTOR: Josefine Exner, Sebastian Gerdes
SCENARIO: Josefine Exner, Sebastian Gerdes
CAMERA: Josefine Exner
MONTAGE: Ania de Sá, Cecilie Marie Damsgaard
MUSIC: Christian Pehrson Balvig
PRODUCERS: Mathilde Hvid Lippmann
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
CPH: DOX
Hampton FF
Sao Paulo IFF