The Danish drama by debut director Katrine Brocks just started filming for Monolit Film and Scanbox.

The film just won Best Nordic Project at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Affair (September 22-24).

The Great Silence is the directorial debut of National Film School of Denmark’s graduate Katrine Brocks, who won a Danish Robert Award 2021 for her short film In the Blink of an Eye.

The story co-written by Brocks and Marianne Lentz, follows Alma (Kristine Kujath Thorp of Ninjababy) who lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows, her elder brother Erik (played by Elliott Crosset Hove of Winter Brothers), a recovering alcoholic, suddenly shows up. His presence unearths a family secret she had desperately tried to suppress.

“I grew up in a Christian community, and my experience of growing up with God as the ultimate role model, is that it sets a towering ideal for what it means to be "good enough" as a human being,” said the director, who confesses being fascinated “by the existential struggle between the flawed and flawless, the sinner and the saint.”

The film is produced by Pernille Tornoe of recently founded Monolit Film, with backing from the Danish Film Institute’s New Danish Screen. Scanbox will handle the domestic release, set for the spring 2022.