Nikolaj Egelund

Anna has a sweetheart and a beloved mother. An insane attachment to the mother, who doesn't want to let her daughter go, prevents her from a relationship whit the man, and gives her no chance to lead an independent life.

In every moment we make choices that define our being; choices that create shapes and patterns and carve out our lives. Until the pattern is broken – by faith, decision or coincidence. In Real Life is about such moments, where lives are drastically changed. As a multi-plot drama, created out of three years of acting improvisations, In Real Life follows three story threads with characters who come together by internet dating and by their persistent search for some kind of meaning in life between love and sheer survival.

Two girls reunite after a traumatic near-death experience, which occurs in 10 central minutes of 24-year-old Julie's life. She stands face to face with unbearable injustice.

Lucas acaba de passar por um divórcio complicado e é professor em um jardim-de-infância de uma pequena cidade dinamarquesa. A filha de seu melhor amigo, Klara, uma garotinha de 6 anos, acusa Lucas de abuso sexual para vingar-se de um beijo que ele recusou; a menina usa como embasamento a foto de um pênis ereto mostrada pelo seu irmão mais velho. A diretora da escola acredita inteiramente na menina e todos os adultos tentam evitar o seu relato, a fim de supostamente preservá-la da lembrança, enquanto começam a hostilizar Lucas, tomando-lhe como culpado e maníaco.

À primera vista, Henrik, Nina e a filha de 14 anos, Stine, formam uma família perfeita. Mas um dia, Stine acusa o pai de ter cometido um crime atroz. Ele é preso enquanto a investigação avança.

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.

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.

Svend Aage is an aging prisoner. His son, Max, is doing well in the world "outside" - or so Svend Aage's wife tells him - and is quite unaware that his father is in jail. One day, a new inmate arrives at the gates to serve the most severe sentence ever handed out for violence and drug-related crime. It's Max.

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.

The final days of a terminally ill young man.