21st Annual Virginia Film Festival

Aliens! 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2008


In Your Hands (2004)

(in Danish with English subtitles)

“The opposite of faith is not doubt - the opposite of faith is knowledge.”

Anna (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) a newly ordained minister is married to Frank (Lars Ranthe). For years they’ve desperately being trying to have a baby. Anna gets a temporary job as prison chaplain in the women’s wing. She meets Kate (Trine Dyrholm), an inmate who is believed to possess supernatural powers. When Kate spots that Anna is actually pregnant, Anna’s faith is severely tested, but Kate also conceals a terrible past which has disastrous consequences for them both.

In Your Hands is a story about what happens when trust is more fragile than mistrust, when knowledge is stronger than faith and when pain is more powerful than love. It is about daring - or not daring - to place one’s life in the hands of something or someone else.

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