The Girl With The Needle

A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, The Girl with the Needle is a dark fairytale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.

Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn’s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) as she struggles to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen. When she ends up unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, the charismatic Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm) takes her in to help run an underground adoption agency for unwanted children. The two women form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

Based on a chilling true story, The Girl with the Needle presents a masterful gothic vision with profound contemporary resonance. Denmark’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 97th Academy Awards® with gorgeous cinematography by EO’s Michał Dymek, and a spellbinding score by Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary).

"Two unrelentingly fascinating performances from Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, and an exquisite black-and-while aesthetic which moves from leering vaudeville to something filthier and shameful, command attention." Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

Denmark, 2024

Danish language with English subtitles