This is the story of Max, the director's own story, playfully animated within the realms of documentary. Max's story goes back several generations to sailors, industrialists and Summer of Love hippies, all of whom are depicted with whole-hearted love and equal amounts of irony.

Max by Chance

Documentary series about Diana, Lotte, Kragelund, Tobisen, Lau and Anna who all work at the local factory Viking in Esbjerg, Denmark. Now they fear for their jobs.

Blue Collar White Christmas

Docu-comedey about danish musician Rasmus Nøhr and manager Morten Holm trying to break through to the music industry.

Mig og dig

This is Denmark. This is Denmark’s most sold car. This house’s worth has doubled over the last 3 years. A measuring tape and some hedges. So begins Max Kestner’s story on Denmark. With an even-keeled narrative, this film takes us on a kaleidoscope tour around Denmark— from an editorial meeting at a magazine, to dictation in an Elementary school; from singing in a kindergarten, to a family planning their vacation; from a meeting with Pia Kjærsgaard, to a real estate agent in front of a newly sold house and a Danish landscape seen from above. These everyday situations tell universal stories about us. These are contemporary stories. This is Denmark’s world. With speed we shift through each story from up close to far away. This film is a mix of studio recordings with Denmark as its setting. This story is linear with a system of coordinates and a range of colors on repeat. Pseudo-scientific scenes are instruments that make it possible to isolate and compare objects and people.

The World in Denmark

People in a room in an apartment in a house on a street in a city. "Dreams in Copenhagen" is Max Kestners's documentary film portrait of Denmark's capital. A film about the physical surroundings that are part of shaping our lives. About the buildings we wake up in, the front doors we walk out of, the streets we traverse. It is also a film about how the way we live our lives affect our physical surroundings. About places we dream of and the walls onto which we scratch the names our loved ones, before it is too late.

Copenhagen Dreams

Lulu and Jenni will soon have a little brother. They are exited. Particularly Jenni, who will now also become an older sister - just like Lulu. Time passes slowly when you are waiting, and the two sisters spend time preparing their little brother's arrival, and they talk about what it means to be a good big sister. Days go by while their parents pull Lulu and Jenni through the everyday routines. Finally the miracle happens.

Jennis storesøster

When Thomas Altheimer sues his former friend and fellow artist Claus Bech-Nielsen for identity theft in the shape of the book "Sovereign", it sends Altheimer into a maze of Kafkaesque paranoia.