A family discovered their 12-year-old girl had a brain tumour after a routine check-up at Specsavers. Opticians discovered swelling behind schoolgirl Grace Kelly's eyes in August last year.
21.03.2022 - 19:21 / variety.com
Lise Pedersen In documentary film “The Fall,” Danish director Andreas Koefoed tells the story of Estrid, who fell out of a fifth floor window when sleepwalking at the age of 11. Koefoed, whose “The Lost Leonardo” was released last year by Sony Pictures Classics, speaks to Variety about his latest film, which has its world premiere Thursday at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) in Dox:Award, the main international competition category.Estrid survived the accident but suffered 17 fractures.
Through hard work and will-power, she regained her mobility, but the trauma of the fall stays with her and her family. Koefoed first met Estrid a few months after the fall when shooting a short film for a rehabilitation center for war veterans where she was getting treatment. “I was touched by her personality, her story, the aura around her.
I felt it was both a miracle and a tragedy at the same time: this young girl facing this immense accident and all the challenges in the years to follow. There was the potential for a story around her and her family trying to deal with the traumatic event, her trying to regain her body and her life,” Koefoed tells Variety.After initially turning down his request to follow their story on camera, Estrid’s family got back in touch with Koefoed a few months later: they believed the film could help in their healing process. He went to visit them with his camera every few months over the next five years, as Estrid worked on healing her body and became a teenager.“It was a lengthy process,” Koefoed says.
A family discovered their 12-year-old girl had a brain tumour after a routine check-up at Specsavers. Opticians discovered swelling behind schoolgirl Grace Kelly's eyes in August last year.
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