A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.
Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries,...
'Collision' centres on a married couple, Leo and Olivia. As they are facing a crisis in their marriage, their nine-year-old daughter, Liv, becomes a messenger between her mother and father. The film explores the break-up of a family and the decisions parents make in trying to find meaning and hope...
Mads moves into a house with his lovely girlfriend Marie when a sudden pang of doubt strikes him. Is this the meaning of life? Has he lived out all his dreams? He drops everything, moves away from his girlfriend and throws himself into a desperate quest to live out his greatest dreams; a quest to...
Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is turned upside down when Cecilie's boyfriend Shaid...
After a violent episode in biology class, the outsider Lykke begins to change. There is something very wrong and soon a big showdown with the outside world awaits. The beast in her has been awakened.
A young girl arrives in a park. She seems to be on her way to a party, but something (or someone) haunts her. When she arrives at the party, it is desolate. Something terrible happened in this place, but the girl seems determined to confront the past...
A brother and a sister are trapped in a chaotic and emotional moment in their life. Through a series of violent acts, they do whatever they can to forget what really hurts inside.
When a middle-aged woman born in privilege opens a café in a vibrant party of her hometown of Copenhagen, she’s confronted with its dark sides as well in the shape of human trafficking and prostitution, and she has to make some hard choices.
Christine breaks up with her boyfriend, Martin, before leaving for a school camp. While at camp, Christine seems to withdraw. Slowly, she slips further and further away from the others.
Jacob's world is turned upside down when his wife Maja is admitted to a psychiatric hospital with severe depression. Now he is alone with their six-year-old son who reacts by getting an imaginary friend with whom he builds stone portals.
Kamille wants to quit smoking, as she has tried so many times before. In fact, she has taken quite a few pictures of herself with "the last cigarette" in her mouth. If she were pregnant, it would be so much easier to quit, Kamille jokes, but the idea of becoming a mother continues to buzz around in...
Jens is a great poet, he has no doubt about that. Lars Bukdahl, editor of the legendary literary magazine Hvedekorn, is another matter. And when his girlfriend, Mia, runs off with Daniel, who is older, taller, and more handsome than Jens—and even a culture editor and DJ!—Jens' world is shaken....