The 27 residents on the tiny Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø are used to severe weather and flooding. But climate change and increasingly extreme weather now pose a serious threat to the eight-square-kilometer island.

Few communities experience the impact of climate change as acutely as the denizens of Mandø, a tiny island off the Danish coast. Numbering just 27 inhabitants, it firmly puts the “micro” in microcosm, as rising sea levels portend a grim fate that may eventually confront humanity at large. But like humankind in general, Mandø’s residents are a resilient, quirky, and often comical bunch. With As the Tide Comes In, co-directors Juan Palacios and Sofie Husum Johannesen accentuate that latter quality, infusing their feature with a rich seam of Scandinavian humour. They also take full advantage of Mandø’s rugged vistas to fashion a film of sublime beauty. The result is a captivating documentary that is also sure to enchant cinephiles, fusing Honeyland’s masterful craft with Roy Andersson’s wry existentialism. At its heart sits Gregers, who, at 42, is the island’s youngest resident. With ties to Mandø extending for eight generations, he’s undaunted by impending doom. Rather than leave, he hopes to find a partner to manage his family business… with the aid of reality dating show Farmer Wants a Wife. Also featuring most of his similarly eccentric neighbours, As the Tide Comes In is a deceptively generous reflection on Mandø’s looming predicament—which, of course, we all ultimately share. – PLANET IN FOCUS

Preceded by AN IMPRESSION OF EVERYTHING by Milliefore Clarkes

A brief impression of everything. An attempt to glimpse the oneness of being, in the face of escalating world division and disassociation. A lyrical film culled from footage accumulated over more than a decade of productions, as well as old family archival, and stock footage. – PLANET IN FOCUS

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