Clint Ruben

The year is 1933, and society has certain expectations of how young women should behave. 17-year-old Maren is wild and unruly and is in turn sent to the women's institution at Sprogø to become more compliant. The stay at Sprogø has the opposite effect on Maren, and she ignites a spark in Sørine, who after six years at the institution has become accustomed to the norms of the time and the expectations of the institution. Slowly the two begin to form an unbreakable bond, which will affect the rest of their lives.

Mona is a young woman and bookworm with no formal education, living in the social housing project Nøjsomheden in Helsingør. She falls head over heels in love with Nikolaj, who comes from a more well-off neighborhood on the other side of town. Meanwhile, she is also desperately trying to get her pusher cousin Frederik to realize that he must visit his dying mother, Mona's beloved and all-embracing Aunt Tut. Will Mona succeed in getting Frederik to reconcile with his mother - and how? Can she match the intellectual Nikolaj - or is the class gap too great?

At a psychiatric ward, on the last day of the year, Elias finds himself racing against time. Haunted by hallucinations and fueled by emotions, he needs to declare his love for his nurse before time runs out.

It is the 1980s. Jens and his brothers live in a single-family house in Risskov, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark. Here, the family's patriarch psychologist and self-appointed God, Uffe, rules the roost in his dressing gown and underwear. Changes threaten the peace when Uffe decides to write his memoirs.

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When Christina returns as a teacher to the school where she was once a student herself, she carries with her a past she thought was long over. In the classroom she is confronted with the problematic Mathilde, 16, who has lived in a shelter since her mother's death. Their meeting sets off a power struggle that quickly grows beyond the classroom walls. Mathilde struggles to hold on to a world that is falling apart around her, while Christina struggles not to become who she once was. Harassment, secrets and lies pull them towards a darkness neither of them can control.

While Eleazar and Alma attempt to pack Alma’s grandmother’s life into boxes, a team of autopsy technicians empties her body of organs. This poignant exploration confronts grief, memory, and the finality of the body in a striking and unexpected hybrid form.

A romantic comedy about Liv, who is at the beginning of her 20s. She is very close to her parents and working in the family greengrocer business when, against all expectation, she falls in love with a spirited and somewhat older rainbow girl, Andrea. Andrea claims to be suffering from stress. But in reality, she is heartbroken and has sought refuge at her uncle’s apple plantation. Liv’s encounter with Andrea becomes the catalyst for a divorce, the loss of a friendship and an identity crisis that ultimately shatters their love. But in a rebellion against her parents, Liv realises that love is mutable and that a family may assume many forms.

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The story of a family gathered in a silent chapel, where tense feelings of regret, anger and old wounds come to surface. Grief pulls them apart, but it might also, unexpectedly, be the one thing that can bring them closer.