Simon Bennebjerg

베를린영화제 은곰상을 수상한 <로열 어페어>(2012) 이후 십여 년 만에 니콜라이 아르셀 감독과 매즈 미켈슨이 의기투합해 또 하나의 대서사극을 완성했다. 18세기 중반, 루드빅 칼렌 대위는 덴마크 국왕의 숙원사업인 황무지 개간에 앞장서겠다는 포부를 밝힌다. 궁정의 귀족들은 그를 천출이라 폄하하고, 이웃한 영지를 다스리는 지주는 그를 쫓아내기 위해 수단과 방법을 가리지 않으며, 이주한 농민들은 그가 딸처럼 키우는 검은 피부의 소녀를 경계한다. 신의 시험과 고난을 끝없이 겪어야 했던 욥처럼, 칼렌 대위의 삶은 황무지가 선사하는 혼란과 고통으로 점철되어 있다. 그는 메마른 대지를 멋지게 정복하는 웨스턴 히어로가 아니다. 왕이 하사한 땅에 ‘왕의 집’을 세우고 감자 한 그루를 싹 틔우려는 욕심과 그 과정에서 희생되는 이들을 향한 윤리적 책임감 사이에서 고뇌하는 인물일 뿐이다. 이처럼 선악의 경계에서 갈등하는 주인공을 표현하는 데 매즈 미켈슨 같은 적임자가 또 있을까? 실존 인물의 실화에 기반하고 있으나, 감독이 재창조한 것으로 보이는 여성 캐릭터들의 존재가 주인공의 선택과 행동에 미치는 영향은 결코 가볍지 않다.

Summer in Copenhagen. Best friends Ronja and Serb are restless souls in their mid-twenties struggling to navigate life. As one joins a secret activist network, and the other falls in love with a mysterious girl, a series of increasingly unlikely events unfold, and the line between reality and fiction begins to erode. Timelines diverge and doppelgängers appear out of nowhere in an endless array of bright summer nights, where everyone is equally chasing euphoria and trying to find meaning.

Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. She is an isolated genius, however, until the day she meets a talented 30-year-old poet. She promises him literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally – even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life...

Europe, 2028. A humanlike creature washes ashore, carrying with him a motionless body he calls his mother. He is on a mission of some kind, reporting on the dwindling human activity in an increasingly automated world.

A treatise of the human animal no. 38: HEARTACHE is an absurd depiction of the human being and its eternal tendency to have its heart broken. In eight standalone chapters, we meet the patients at the now closed Sanatorium for Heartache, in their assiduous attempt to cure themselves of this terrible disease. Meanwhile, on Antarctica, we join the penguin Edgar on an epic journey, as he traverses snowy plains and stormy mountains in an attempt to once again be reunited with the love of his life.

When Ingrid turns 34, she has to admit to herself that her life has not gone as she had hoped. She has been single since she was seventeen, she works in an underwear store, and now her parents are getting divorced. She can feel for the first time in her life that she is in fact like everyone else. And her biggest wish is one of the most banal and unoriginal in the whole world: to have a boyfriend. But how can an independent and proud woman like her find love under the increasing pressure of her biological clock and without losing face?

The Sausage Moose discovers that he, and only a few other animals, are not granted a spot on Noah’s Ark before the great flood. They try to find a solution on who will be allowed on the Ark, when a spot opens.

재판 중인 사건으로 경질된 채 긴급 신고 센터에서 근무 중인 경찰 ‘아스게르’. 다음 날 진행될 최종 재판에 대한 긴장감으로 좀처럼 일에 집중하지 못하던 그는 심상치 않은 신고전화를 받게 된다. 직감적으로 전화를 건 여성이 납치되어 있다는 사실을 알게 된 아스게르는 피해자를 구출하기 위해 모든 절차를 무시한 채 사건에 뛰어드는데…

Simon is the king of the Danish art scene - eccentric, successful, wealthy, with a beautiful wife and a young mistress. Life is beautiful, until the day his unknown son Casper turns up and attracts all the attention. It turns out that Casper is the world-famous graffiti artist “The Ghost”. This is a provocation and a challenge to Simon, and the relationship between father and son is put to a serious test. However, against all odds he two slowly grow closer to each other, but the question is whether blood ties are enough? Because after all Simon has no plans of being a father, and Casper has other plans with his father than simply getting to know him…

Christian and Malene are lovers. Although they are both only in their mid 20s, they have been a couple for a long time since they got together as teenagers. They have reached a point in life where a new phase has begun: adulthood. The pressure from their surroundings is starting to create doubt in both of them, and the question is whether they should be together at all.

Childhood friends Sigurd and Nikolaj have created 'Delphi', an ingenious app that helps people structuring their everyday life. The app is a soaring success, but Sigurd is questioning his own creation: Are people entrusting too many of their decisions to the app? Nikolaj struggles to keep both friendship and enterprise afloat, as Sigurd's growing doubts threaten both.

Oliver feels that his life is at a standstill. A change is needed. To get his life going in a new direction he must do something radical, and the solution might be to break up with his girlfriend Signe. However, that turns out to be harder than he had expected.