— Best Film and Screenplay, Bodil Awards, 2025

— Audience Award, Best sound, Danish Film Awards, 2025

— Official Selection, Göteborg Film Festival, 2025

— Official Selection, Filmfest Hamburg, 2024

How far are you willing to go to save the people you love? This is the question Christian is forced to answer when he is smuggled into Syria in a desperate search for his son Adam. It's a deadly and soul-searching journey into a brutal, war-torn country. Gradually, Christian realises that he must be willing to sacrifice everything he believes in to be reunited with his son. Way Home is a powerful and gripping drama about powerlessness, forgiveness and the love for our children.

The triumph of Charlotte Sieling’s film as "Best Danish Film" at this year’s Bodil Awards, Denmark’s main national film prize, in a way sums up one of the most significant trends in Danish cinema today — the generational conflict, dramatized time and again through different situations and means.  The Way Home takes place in a setting that’s unusual for Danish cinema: Syria, in a territory controlled by ISIS, where the film’s protagonist travels in search of his son. Yet, through very concise means, The Way Home invites us to view it in a much broader context — not just as a father’s perilous odyssey in search of his child, but as a reflection of Europe’s existential crisis.

— Serhiy Ksaverov