Empire

As a “free colored” woman, Anna Elizabeth Heegaard is wealthy and owns her own slaves when she begins a love affair with the Danish colony’s governor-general Peter von Scholten. During communal feasts, they discuss social reforms while a slave boy hangs above the table and cools the diners with a feather. And in the shadows, whispers begin of a slave revolt.

Director: Frederikke Aspöck

Cast: Anna Neye Poulsen, Sara Fanta Traore, Claus Riis Østergaard, Jesper Groth, Tyler Errol Murray, Caroline Henderson, James L. Sampson, Søs Sif Thiele

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.