Birgitte Hald

Five stories on interpersonal trust and unspoken truths intertwine in Annette K. Olesen’s artful, elliptical, and bittersweet relationship drama.

A LUCKY MAN is a tribute to the popular Danish musician, who has provided us with classics like “Vimmer Street”, “Why Does Louise Go Dancing” and “In A Boat That’s Itty-Bitty”. Behind the warm smile and the overalls is a powerful and moving story about a man’s lifelong pursuit of recognition and love. Flemming “Teddy” Jørgensen is the only child of 12 siblings to be given up for adoption. Flemming’s adoptive father wishes for Flemming to take over the family’s factory, but to the father’s dismay, Flemming chooses music and becomes the frontman of Teddy’s Friends. A fractured background that leaves deep marks in Flemming’s life. A LUCKY MAN is a warm and compassionate film that tells Teddy’s life story with his biggest hits as the soundscape.

1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.

Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The Idiots' during the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 put Denmark on the film world map. Another eight films under the strict Dogme rules followed and created great international careers for several of the talents in front of and behind the handheld camera. Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Lone Scherfig, Sonja Richter and many more of the country's greatest filmmakers look back on when Denmark became Dogme.

Por meio de 56 vinhetas, Echo retrata a Islândia moderna na época de Natal. Em campo aberto, uma fazenda está em chamas. Numa escola, um coro canta músicas de Natal. Num museu, uma mulher discute com o ex. Próximos ou distantes, esses personagens estão em conflito com seu passado e presente.

Simon é o rei da cena artística dinamarquesa - excêntrico, bem-sucedido, rico, com uma bela esposa e uma jovem amante. A vida é linda, até o dia em que seu filho desconhecido Casper aparece e atrai todas as atenções.

Ari, um rapaz de 16 anos, vive com a sua mãe em Reykjavik e de repente é enviado de volta para a remota Westfjords para viver com o seu pai. Lá, ele tem que lidar com a difícil relação entre ambos, ao mesmo tempo que reencontra amigos de infância.

Copenhague, 1944. A Dinamarca está ocupada pela Alemanha nazista. Flamme e Citron são dois membros da resistência encarregados de liquidar informantes dinamarqueses. Por ordem do comando, eles agora também podem matar alemães. Na luta pela liberdade, todas as áreas são cinzentas e torna-se cada vez mais difícil saber quem é amigo e quem é inimigo. Baseada em fatos reais.

32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn't want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbour of a trans woman Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. An assault, a new bed and some white curtains bring the two of them together.

A chamber play taking place around Christmas, where Liv, her brother and mother are to celebrate Christmas together. The father has recently left the family and 14 year-old Liv cannot accept that Christmas is not what is used to be. Liv does her best in order to keep both family and Christmas together, but when her mother invites a young colleague to celebrate Christmas with them a painful struggle for power between Liv and her mother takes place.

Em uma pequena e triste cidade vive Dick, um jovem que se considera extremamente pacifista. Ainda assim, fica estranhamente fascinado quando encontra, por acaso, um revólver, que batiza "Wendy". Ele acaba formando um clube secreto, cuja filosofia une o pacifismo e a paixão pelas armas.

Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.

Num futuro não muito distante, um desastre ambiental causa estranhos fenômenos: em alguns lugares a gravidade desaparece e as pessoas que sofrem de tristeza são vitimadas por uma doença fatal, que congela de repente o coração. John (Joaquin Phoenix) e sua mulher, Elena (Claire Danes), uma famosa patinadora de gelo, vivem há anos separados: ele na Polônia e ela em Nova York. Esse tempo distanciou o casal e John vai a Nova York para, finalmente, acertar os detalhes da separação. Porém ele percebe que algo estranho aconteceu com sua esposa e as pessoas que a cercam.

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.

O patriarca Helge traz toda a família para o seu hotel, para comemorar seu aniversário de sessenta anos. A festa era apenas uma típica comemoração burguesa até o filho mais velho do aniversariante fazer o seu discurso de homenagem ao pai e revelar uma história doméstica que ninguém poderia esperar.

The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daughter, whom he should present himself to. Her adoptive father is a mean bastard, and incestive undertones lies in the relationship between the two. The daughter escapes from her adoptive father, turns up at Peter's place, and Carsten, Peter, and the daughter escapes to Sweden.

Nine-year old Andreas struggles to cope with the death of his beloved older brother, Mikkel, who is killed in a motorbike accident. Andreas' family moves shortly afterward to begin life anew, yet neither a new school nor the friends he makes can ease his enormous pain.