The lake in the mirror

Søen i spejlet (lake in the mirror) deals with nature as a refuge where the rules and hierarchies of society are put out of play ¿ at least until new hierarchies and rituals start regulating the refuge.
The film is the re-enactment of a former boarding school tradition in Denmark. Once a year the students of Sorø Academy held a ritual out in the woods, burning effigies of their teachers on a bonfire.
The narrative of the film evolves around the character of a former student that revisits the place of his school days meeting with a group of young students. What first seems to be the fictionalization of the former student¿s memory, becomes more and more the documentation of the staging of the ritual ¿ the alumni himself being the director. But as soon as the ritual sets off, all turns to a different state of realness, as the anger and emotion of the young students boil up to an uncanny level of authenticity.