About Time
2024 · 7m · Denmark
Directed by Danny Laursen
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tender
Out driving, Astrid stops by a strange lake and meets her younger self. Immersed in the water, they flow in and out of a road trip together, and Astrid rediscovers parts of herself while leaving others behind in the lake.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise wants to be profound—meet-your-younger-self in a magic lake—but it plays it straight, landing somewhere between indie grief-processing and a greeting-card meditation on time. Nothing here resists the easy read.
Laursen positions this squarely in the lineage of memory-as-landscape cinema, with a formal restraint that recalls Tarkovsky's patience; the editing rhythm between present and immersed time shows real consideration for how duration shapes meaning.
The film lives or dies on the decision to keep the younger self *in the water*—neither fully present nor fully past—and that spatial commitment to ambiguity, sustained through seven minutes without breaking it, is what makes the emotional work land instead of slip away.