Three films, two sound practitioners, and a chance to hear the creative decisions behind the stories. At Sonic Days, Korey Pereira revisits the dialogue edit of Boyhood, while Oskar Skriver takes us behind the sound of The Girl with the Needle and Woman Unknown.
From keeping dialogue natural across years of recordings to drawing us into a character’s emotional world, these sessions explore the craft of telling a story through sound. There is also an opportunity to watch The Girl with the Needle together before meeting its sound designer the following day.
Korey Pereira: twelve years of recordings, one film
Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood over twelve years with the same cast. When Korey Pereira, MPSE, joined the project as one of its dialogue editors in 2013, he was working with recordings made across more than a decade. The task brought creative and technical challenges while asking the sound team to support the film’s naturalistic storytelling.
Korey Pereira returns to that process at Sonic Days, sharing the tools and workflows available at the time and the lessons he took from the film. More than a decade later, what would he approach differently with today’s tools? And which principles of dialogue editing still hold up?
It is an opportunity to look closely at how an editor’s choices support a performance, and how a familiar piece of work can reveal new possibilities when revisited years later.
Watch the Boyhood trailer below ↓
Wednesday 18 November · 09:30–10:30 CET
Add Boyhood Revisited with Korey Pereira to your programme.
Oskar Skriver: the sound of two very different worlds
In Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown, women navigate lives under intense social pressure. Both films give sound an important role in shaping atmosphere, tension and emotional perspective.
Sound designer and re-recording mixer Oskar Skriver will share the creative choices behind his work on both productions. His session, Behind the Sound: The Girl with the Needle & Woman Unknown, explores how those distinct sonic worlds were built and how sound can make us feel what an image leaves unspoken.
For filmmakers, sound practitioners and anyone interested in the relationship between picture and sound, this is a chance to hear about the decisions behind the finished films directly from someone who helped create them.
Watch The Girl with the Needle trailer ↓ · Watch the Woman Unknown teaser ↓
Thursday 19 November · 14:00–15:00 CET
Add Behind the Sound with Oskar Skriver to your programme.
Watch on Wednesday. Go behind the sound on Thursday.
The Girl with the Needle screens on Wednesday evening. Set in Copenhagen after the First World War, the film follows factory worker Karoline, who turns to a woman running an underground adoption agency when she finds herself unemployed and pregnant.
Its black-and-white imagery is accompanied by Oskar Skriver’s sound design and Frederikke Hoffmeier’s score. Join us for the screening, listen closely, and return the following afternoon to explore the creative decisions behind what you have heard.
Get a first impression: watch the trailer below ↓
Film screening: Wednesday 18 November · 20:00–22:30 CET
Add The Girl with the Needle screening to your programme.
Join us at Sonic Days
Both talks and the screening take place in Room 0.40 — Motion Picture Sound Editors at Sonic College, Kolding.
Sonic Days takes place on 18–19 November 2026 and is free to attend. Register in Sched and add the sessions to your programme.
Watch the trailers
Boyhood
Official trailer
The Girl with the Needle
Official trailer
Watch The Girl with the Needle on YouTube
Woman Unknown (Kvinde ukendt)
Official teaser · Danish