Movies: Nanna Finding Koppel

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord...

Set in the early 1950s, the narrative follows 15-year-old Cecilia, an orphan who becomes pregnant due to an assault by the orphanage warden. To conceal the pregnancy, she is sent to live with Ida, a woman desperate to adopt, residing in an isolated m...

When Claus, a car salesman and a passionate gambler, gets his 19-year-old son Silas mixed up in considerable gambling debts owed to criminals, he is forced to put his own life at risk to save his son....

It's a roller coaste coming-of-age story. Focus is on the three kids thrown into extraordinary circumstances, which brings out best and worst in their relationship to themselves, each other, death and having to be/become an adult. Mum's corpse only a...

Selma and her friend Marie are going to Marie’s family vacation house in Sweden. They meet Marie’s friend, Agnete, and she gets invited along. The film explores the everchanging group dynamic, and what happens when two becomes three....

Karla invites Katrine to spend the holidays with her, hoping they might become best friends. As it turns out, nothing goes as planned. Karla meets Jonas and falls in love for the first time, and she nearly forgets all about Katrine. However, the two ...

When Helle Pii moves into Molly’s flat, all seems to work out for both parties. Molly needs a roommate; Helle Pii and her mantis need a place to call home. So what if the room is not very private; and so what if the walls are paper thin? Soon this ha...

Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives....

Freja has no desire to be one of the cool kids. What she does have, though, is a desire for one of the cool kids - Sofie. As Sofie and her friends learn of Freja's lesbian crush, life gets complicated for Freja....

In exploring the lonely world that is her home, 10-year-old Olivia loves looking up on her father's release doves. She lives with her father and older sister but is continuously sensing something is wrong. The doves end up becoming Olivia's only way ...

When a Danish family finds themselves on a Greek holiday island in 2015, in the midst of the first major refugee crisis in Europe in our time, our northern European, well-intentioned, humanistic values are put to the test....

Exploring negotiations of intimacy and monogamy in casual relationships. Our two protagonists share the sweet thrill of peeking into a stranger's intimate life, but are confronted with the question: Which is more vulnerable to talk about, sexual desi...

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