Offscreen is a 2006 Danish film directed by Christoffer Boe, who also wrote the screenplay together with Knud Romer Jørgensen. With an odd mixture of fiction and reality, it tells the peculiar story of a man who films himself for a whole year in a quest for invisibility. When he is inevitably caught on camera, however, he takes his own life, causing the movie to take on the fictional aspect of a documentary. When combined with the plight of the homeless, the film can also be a meditation on the difficulties of facing the stranger.
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Cast
Nicolas Bro -- Nicolas Bro
Lene Maria Christensen -- Lene Maria Christensen
Christoffer Boe -- Christoffer Boe
Lene's Mother -- Karen Margrethe Bjerre
Lene's Father -- Niels Weyde
Jakob Cedergren -- Jakob Cedergren
Assistant Editor -- Bjarke de Koning
Awards
2006 Altre Visioni Award at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival for Offscreen
2006 win at The Nordic Council Film Prize for Offscreen