The Girl with the Needle / Pigen med nålen
Denmark, post-WWI. Sewing factory worker Karoline (a tremendous Victoria Carmen Sonne) struggles to survive on her own, her husband having not returned from the war. When circumstances force her out of her job, she gains employment as a wet nurse for Dagmar (the great Trine Dryholm), who runs an illegal adoption agency from the back of her sweet shop.
Gradually a bond forms between the two women, but a disturbing discovery upends Karoline’s new-found stability. Filmed in striking monochrome, and with a story based on factual events, director Magnus von Horn delivers a thriller which The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw described as a “horribly effective grand guignol, made with enormous technical flair.”