Gitte
After a failed suicide attempt in his garage, former criminal Henrik ends up at the local gas station. Hers, during a conversation with the annoying tankwoman Gitte, he becomes involved in a robbery started by inexperienced Ronja. However, it does not go as planned and has store consequences for the three involved.
Trouble child, Malou is sent to live with new foster parents BIBI and LEIF on a small island. Malou resents everything and everyone, and just wants to escape. Local gnome, Nils hates change, and he hates Malou. The two form a pact to get her thrown off the island. But Malou finds personal success in helping Leif chop down Christmas trees, and before long she realizes that she's made a terrible mistake. But the gnome pact cannot be voided. Nils destroys the farm's traditional Christmas market and throws the blame on Malou. The trouble child has to step up and prove herself. After a fierce battle with Nils, Malou manages to restore her relationship with her new parents and save Christmas.
21-year-old Kathrine is on sabbatical. At her sister's graduation party, she is constantly confronted with questions about her future plans.
Director
Moren
Housing Cooperative Manager
Discarded by society, let down by their bank and evicted from their homes, three senior citizens plan a nice little bank robbery to set things right. But things don't go quite that easy...
(Voice)
Anders Morgenthaler's two puppet friends Carsten and Gitte present a compilation of six short animation and puppet films, directed by Karla Nielsen, Rikke Hallund, Sabine Ravn, Mette Skov, Esben Toft Jacobsen and Anders Morgenthaler.
Madam von Grissenfeldt
It's summer, it's sunny and it's Sunday. The car is packed, and Dad and the kids are on the way to Bornholm on vacation. But then comes the postman with a registered letter to Uncle Donald. He has inherited an estate on Funen, and he must urgently turn to take over the castle.
Lone
Jørgen manages the lotto club at the factory where he works. If you ask him, he would say he is a good person, even better than most. Then one day, he has to share a three million kroner jackpot with his friends, and his high morals are put to the test.
Writer
Solia loved her husband, but now he is dead. The relatives worry about the inheritance, while Solia says goodbye to her husband in an astonishing way.
Director
Solia loved her husband, but now he is dead. The relatives worry about the inheritance, while Solia says goodbye to her husband in an astonishing way.
Sonja
Based on director Lotte Svendsen's own memories of her childhood on the Baltic island of Bornholm, but though it is set in 1981 the conflicts portrayed do not seem far away. At the start of the film Lars Erik and his wife Sonja are doing well on the Baltic island of Bornholm. Lars Erik is a successful fisherman, Sonja is a traditional housewife, proud of their new house bulging with consumer goods. Their love for each other is the sturdy footing on which their home is founded. Lars Erik employs three men on his trawler, and spends as fast as he earns, so when fishing quotas are cut he faces a crisis. One by one his men leave the boat, but he refuses to give up. Being a fisherman is like being a farmer - you depend on the wealth of mother nature herself. However, mother nature is like romance, highly capricious!
Lady of bakery
Kresten vive en Copenhague, integrado en los círculos yuppies de la ciudad, con un brillante futuro, hasta que en su noche de bodas suena el teléfono. Una llamada lejana le informa de la muerte de su padre. Kresten se ve obligado a explicar la situación, ya que todo el mundo creía, incluida su esposa que no tenía ningún pariente cercano. Kresten regresa a la arruinada granja de su padre donde vive su hermano mayor, un hombre de aspecto desaliñado, solitario y con sus facultades mentales algo mermadas, lo que le impide valerse por sí mismo. Avergonzado al ver cómo irremediablemente va saliendo a la luz su pasado pueblerino, trata de mantener alejada a su mujer inventando una mentira tras otra.
Sanne
Café Hector is the new in-place for the chic, high-flying, articulate jet-set, where steaming cups of cappuccino accompany their trendy chit-chat. Uffe is definitely not "in." He can't get a cappuccino, but he is given permission, just this once, to use the toilet. But Uffe is prepared for the situation. He can't take any more humiliation and he is armed!
Juliane
Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.
Alice
Pianist Benny loses his heart to a hair dresser, who is already in a relationship with a married man. Things get even more complicated since all three people have pre-teens, who apparently know one another.