POST-SUICIDE
Alexander Saul
Denmark
After 18 days in a coma, a young suicide survivor wakes to a reality now strange to him.
SYNOPSIS
The film follows 27-year-old Rasmus, playing himself, searching for a way back to life after surviving a suicide attempt while in a psychosis.
10 minutes dead. 18 days in coma. Rasmus wakes with severe brain damage, stripped of language, memory, and control of his body. He must relearn everything – how to walk, speak, and exist in a world that has moved on, and continues to do so, without him. Through fragments of recovery, gratitude slowly gives way to loneliness and loss. Yet in small moments hope re-emerges.
INTENTION
I am making this film because I know the feeling of waking up and no longer knowing who you are, not from a coma, but from years where the mind itself has been a closed room. I have lived with paranoid schizophrenia and hearing hallucinations for most of my life. I no longer define myself by my diagnosis, but it has shaped how I see the world. Film is the only way I know how to take back control of my own story. Post-Suicide grew from my encounter with Rasmus, who survived a suicide attempt and woke from a coma in a state of euphoria. He spoke about life with a gratitude only someone who has lost everything can hold. I recognized that feeling. The film asks how to portray a rebirth without turning it into therapy or social realism. The camera observes rather than judges, following a quiet awakening after catastrophe. It is not a film about illness, but about consciousness: about waking into a world that is unchanged, yet unfamiliar.
My hope is that the audience feels the same doubt and tenderness I experienced when I met Rasmus: that life can be absurd, grotesque, and beautiful at once, and that hope can exist even in the most incomprehensible moments.
DIRECTOR
Alexander Saul
Alexander Saul is a writer-director. His Oscar-longlisted shorts Lovesick (2024) and Snipped (2025) screened at HollyShorts, Nordisk Panorama, and Odense IFF, and Snipped won Best Director at Evolution Mallorca IFF. He studies directing at Super16.
Tobias Holm Pedersen is a writer-director exploring social dynamics and absurdity. He has studied in Sweden and the USA, and holds a Master's in Film and Media Studies (University of Copenhagen). He studies screenwriting at Super16.
mail.tobias.holm@gmail.com
WRITER
Tobias Holm Pedersen
PRODUCER
Nadia Barbara Abrahamsen
Nadia Barbara Abrahamsen founded the Faroe Islands Intl. Minority FF in 2017. She debuted as a producer with Robert Award-nominated The Last Straw (2023), invited to Clermont-Ferrand. She studies producing at Super16.
Genre
Hybrid (documentary-fiction)
Length
15 min
Language
Danish
Shooting location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Production company
Adomeit Film ApS (Denmark)
Estimated budget
€ 20.000
Secured funding
Super16 - € 6.800, Filmværksted København - € 4.700, Mentanargrunnur Landsins - € 4.000, Danish Actors' Association - € 1.600, Other - € 800
Looking for
Financing, Post-Production, Sales, Distribution, Festivals