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Lovesick

At a psychiatric ward, on the last day of the year, Elias finds himself racing against time. Haunted by hallucinations and fuelled by emotions, he needs to declare his love for his nurse before time runs out.

  • Alexander Saul
    Director
  • Alexander Saul
    Writer
  • Rebecca Pruzan
    Producer
  • Hanne Bruun
    Producer
  • Clint Ruben
    Key Cast
  • Sandra Turéll Henningsen
    Key Cast
  • Ellaha Lack
    Key Cast
  • Louis Bodnia Andersen
    Key Cast
  • Einar Bredefeldt
    Key Cast
  • Maria-Lydia Nokouda
    Key Cast
  • Rikke Wölck
    Key Cast
  • Camilla Bendix
    Key Cast
  • Rasmus Hammerich
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Denmark
  • Country of Filming:
    Denmark
  • Language:
    Danish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:2.2
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • M&M Productions
    Distributor
    Country: Denmark
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Alexander Saul

Alexander Saul (1997) is a writer-director who graduated from the Danish School of Art Photography, Fatamorgana. He has worked on several Narrative Studies, Video Shorts, and Short Films since his early teens.
In 2020, his first short film, "Darling," premiered In competition at the Oscar- and EFA-qualifying Odense International Film Festival. In 2022 his second short film, "Valerie," premiered at Fremkald#5 at Cinemateket in Copenhagen.
Alexander Saul won the main prize in the pitch competition, Pitch Me Baby, at OFF Awards 2022 for his latest project, "LoveSick"

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Director Statement

Instructor's motivation
Lovesick is about demystifying what it means to be admitted to an open psychiatric ward. I have been in and out of psychiatric wards in my teenage years. I have had an experience of extreme loneliness, isolation and lack of hope, but also a tendency to fall in love very easily. Perhaps a need to feel something that also exists in the real world. Perhaps a need to feel something physically when the interior takes up too much. With Lovesick I wanted to create a portrait of life in an open psychiatric ward and thus help create a more nuanced picture of what it is like to be in close contact with psychiatry.
The media's often negative coverage of psychiatry in Denmark, as well as the art's establishment of horror treatments and patients, also contribute to increasing the shame that often accompanies diagnosis and treatment. With Lovesick, I very much hope to help tell a different story than the one most people know from the sad stories and depressing numbers that fill so much of the public debate.