Beast

Lars p Arendt

Denmark | V.O. Danish | ST English | 2009 | 15 min | Betacam numerical NTSC | color | Fiction | Quebec Premiere

They lie about it. Dad hitting Mom. but 10-year-old Benjamin has had it with lies. By taking Dad's puppy hostage, Benjamin forces him to apologize to Mom. Unfortunately for all of them, Daddy is not the apologizing kind.

Distribution
Director Lars p Arendt
Cast Lars Bom, Anne Louise Hassing, Frederik Tingsoe
Production Super8

Biographie

Lars p Arendt

Lars is an 34 year old director educated at Super8, a film school in Aarhus, Denmark. He has made the award-winning shortfilm A MIND’S I – a film on it’s fourth festival year worldwide.
Since 1999 he has made around 10 shortfilms in the genre of drama, experimental, found- footage and horror. Recently he won the Filmaka Entry Level Contest with the grotesque film DON’T PANIC. He is now in a competition with jury members counting W erner Herzog, W im W enders, P aul Schrader and others.
BEAST , with the famous danish actress Anne Louise Hassing, who also starred in Lars von T rier’s THE IDIOT . W ith a completely professional cast, this shortfilm is meant to be the final ordeal before embarking on the road to the world of feature films. Lars is a member of the union of Danish Film Directors.