Christian Sønderby Jepsen (Director)

The monk

When Danish filmmakers Mira Jargil and Christian Sønderby Jepsen try to find balance in their stressful lives, they seek guidance from a renowned Danish HIV researcher turned monk deep in the mountains of Sri Lanka. But their filming process goes differently than expected. When they hear that the renowned Danish doctor and HIV scientist Jan Erik Hansen has burned all boats to live as a Buddhist monk on a mountain in Sri Lanka, the two Danish documentary makers Mira Jargil and Christian Sønderby Jepsen decide to make a film about him. to make. Jan Erik Hansen, as monk Bhante, has become an important voice in the Buddhist community. He has a YouTube channel with many followers, and people from all over the world ask him their life questions. The film project ends unexpectedly when the monk and the filmmakers appear to have different ideas about the film.

Release Date2023-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Self

Stein Bagger og grådighedens ansigter

Release Date2026-02-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Mirror

Bodybuilding is the pure narcissism. While the runner struggles against time and the weightlifter struggles with the weights, the bodybuilder only has his mirror. Exercise programs, diets and hours and hours in a training room are only the outside of an extreme discipline and eternal struggle for the ideal body. An ideal body that, to most people, seems absurd, but nonetheless has a fascinating power. Not least because most people in the western world even know about the hunt for the perfect body.

Release Date2009-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Blood Ties

Svend has sixteen children but his wife of 28 years, Gitte - the mother of the four youngest has had enough and wants a divorce. Nothing about this process is going to be simple as this family must reconcile an array of emotions, priorities and memories.

Release Date2013-06-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

FugleKongerne

Release Date2012-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Father, The Sons and The Holy Spirit

Brothers Henrik and Christian have put a year-long family and inheritance dispute behind them. A dispute that was once about a million-dollar fortune and a dubious will, but which was fundamentally rooted in their shared upbringing in a dysfunctional family. Now the two brothers stand at a crossroads: Henrik tries to break the destructive patterns and create stability for his family, while Christian seeks belonging in a right-wing brotherhood. At the center is Henrik's son Alexander, torn between the shadows of the past and his own hope for change. Can one ever break free from one's social heritage?

Release Date2025-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Natural Disorder

Jacob Nossell (24) is intelligent, but hardly fits the picture of a dream child: he suffers from a paralysis of the brain, a congenital physical handicap. It affects not only his powers of speech, but also causes cramps and stiffness. When he speaks, his words cluster together, and when he walks it is with difficulty. With a normal intelligence in a weakened body Jacob is the embodiment of the problem ‘what is normality’: he is too much of an invalid to be fully accepted by society and too ordinary for him to be able to accept his own fate.

Release Date2015-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Side om side

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Fake Will

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Will

Documentary about Henrik, a man in deep trouble due to substance abuse and debt. When his problems seem almost insurmountable, Henrik's wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a huge fortune. But a family feud breaks out over the will, and years of failure and betrayal are revealed.

Release Date2011-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3