All These Summers
2025, 66 mins
Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in North London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him. As her father gradually slips back into the depression that made him absent when she was a teenager, she feels a need to document this transition. Her compulsion to enter into Pete’s life and to film him echoes with her desire for understanding her father’s experience of isolation and loneliness, as well as her own relationship to it. Filmed handheld and with an unwavering gaze, All These Summers asks questions about responsibility in life and in film whilst intimately confronting the complexities of the daughter-father and filmmaker-subject relationship.
With Povl Christian Henningsen and Peter Petrou
Camera and edit: Therese Henningsen
Consultants: Marc Isaacs and Mandy Merck
Sound edit and mix: Anne Gry Friis Kristensen
Colourist: Jason R. Moffat
Composition and cellist: Viki Steiri
Graphics: Amandine Forest-Aguié
With support from
Techné AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership and Necessity
Screenings:
2025 CPH DOX New Vision (World Premiere)
2025 Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend (UK premiere)
2026 And Related Issues, ICA, London
2026 WET, Rotterdam
2026 Losing the Plot Film Retreat, North Pennines
2026 Øst for Paradis, Aarhus
Read two accounts of watching All These Summers