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Som barn flyttet Christian fra Danmark til Norge sammen med foreldrene og hans tre brødre. Etter at en av brødrene blir alvorlig syk, kjøper faren et videokamera for å dokumentere den lille tiden de har igjen med broren. Brorens bortgang setter dype spor i den lille familien og videoopptakene er vitnesbyrdet om en svunnen tid. Sakte, men sikkert har den danske familiens mannlige medlemmer glidd fra hverandre, ute av stand til å snakke sammen og bearbeide sorgen.

Flere tiår senere reiser Christian tilbake til landet han vokste opp i, i håp om å bryte isen. Gjennom hjemmevideo som strekker seg 30 år tilbake i tid, og samtaler med foreldrene og brødrene, forteller Bjergene en dypt rørende historie med varme og humor – godt hjulpet av superhelter.

Christian Einshøj (f. 1985 i Danmark) er oppvokst i Norge. Han har utdanning fra European Film College i Ebeltoft. Einshøj har vært klipper på en rekke prisvinnerne film og dokumentar, nemlig Q’s Barbershop (2019) og Underverden(2017). Einshøj begynte som regissør med den korte dokumentar Hvordan jeg bor, som du gerne ville vide (2014). Einshøj sitt andre kort dokumentarfilm Hjemsøgelsen (2018) vant prisen for beste kortfilm ved HotDocs i Toronto. Hans første dokumentar i spillefilmens lengde Bjergene har fått premiere på CPH:DOX i mars 2023, hvor han både har skrevet, regissert, fotografert og klippet.

A beautiful portrait of a family where the male members are incapable of communicating with each other. In Christian Einshøj’s brave, personal, and very funny documentary, The Mountains, he closely follows his own family 25 years after the tragedy that left a deep mark.

As a child, Christian moved from Denmark to Norway with his parents and three brothers. After one of his brothers fell gravely ill, his father bought a video camera to document the little time they had left with him. The brother’s passing left a deep mark on the little family, and the videotapes are a testimony of a bygone era. Slowly but surely, the men in the family have drifted apart, incapable of talking together and processing the grief.

Several decades later, Christian returns to the country he grew up in, hoping to break the ice. Through home videos going back 30 years and conversations with his parents and brothers, he tells a deeply moving story with warmth and humor – helped by superheroes along the way.

Christian Einshøj (born in 1985 in Denmark) grew up in Norway. He attended the European Film College in Ebeltoft. Einshøj has worked as an editor on several award-winning films and documentaries, including Q's Barbershop (2019) and Darkland (2017). He made his directorial debut with the short documentary How I Live, as You Wanted To Know(2014). His second short documentary, Haunted (2018), won the award for best international short film at HotDocs in Toronto. The Mountains (2023) marks his first feature-length documentary, where he took on multiple roles as a writer, director, cinematographer, and editor. The film premiered at CPH:DOX in March 2023.