The Girl With The Needle is coming soon to MUBI

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, is pleased to announce that Magnus von Horn’s (The Here After, Sweat) latest feature film The Girl With the Needle is in selected cinemas from today and will be available to stream exclusively on MUBI from 24 January 2025.

A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, The Girl With The Needle is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.

Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn’s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen. When she ends up unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, the charismatic Dagmar takes her in to help run an underground adoption agency for unwanted children. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

Based on a chilling true story, The Girl With The Needle presents a masterful gothic vision with profound contemporary resonance. Denmark’s Best International Feature Film entry to the 97th Academy Awards® also features EFA-nominated performances from Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, gorgeous cinematography by EO’s Michał Dymek, and a spellbinding score by Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary).

Magnus von Horn is a graduate of the Polish National Film School in Lodz where he is currently also a teacher. Already with his short films, he established himself internationally as a promising director presenting films at festivals such as Sundance and Locarno. Finding it inspiring to work in different languages, his feature film debut, The Here After, was in Swedish and premiered at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 2015; it also earned him the Swedish Guldbaggen award for best director and best film. His second feature film, Sweat, was in Polish and part of the Cannes official selection in 2020.