A true-crime podcast’s investigation into the murder of a young woman has unexpected consequences in Joey Moe’s assured debut, which combines our social fervor with true crime with a searing look at the consequences of such an obsession. Focusing on a variety of seemingly unconnected characters, a janitor, a talk-show host, a TV engineer, RIPPLE smartly weaves a psychological thriller examining the effect of a murder that was committed half a century earlier. With great performances from Ulrich Thomsen, Rasmus Hammerich and Ida Marie Nielsen, this is a bone-chilling thriller that will stick with you long after the credits have rolled.
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alma struggles to show him mercy, as his presence unearths a family secret she has desperately tried to suppress. With the ceremony impending, Alma begins to lose her footing and doubt whether she is worthy of the love of her God.
Hannah, a young fertility doctor, longs to carry a baby but is struggling to get pregnant herself. After meeting an older patient who is fertile but above the legal age for treatment, Hannah’s ethical and moral boundaries are questioned. Driven by jealousy and powerlessness, how far is she willing to go to make her greatest wish come true?
When Nora decides to send her sister, Rose, a suicide video, her sister quickly invites her on a healing trip to a remote forest. But what Rose doesn't know is that Nora has another, far more disturbing, agenda with the trip.
