From her home in Gentofte outside of Copenhagen, Danish director and former child star BARBARA TOPSØE-ROTHENBORG revisits her 11-year stay in Los Angeles, starting when she was 21, where she got her filmmaking education on the job. Returning home in search of a directing career and a work-life balance, Barbara talks about her film Loving Adults, the first Netflix Danish language original feature, and other projects that highlight her priority to tell female and personal stories.

Barbara selects a work by C.A. Lorentzen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS920

(Photographer: Caspar Willumsen)

This conversation occurred on November 12, 2024.

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