Aarhus Filmværksted

A young Norwegian woman tries to make it as a screenwriter in the Danish film industry. Unfortunately, she runs out of ideas before she even gets started. Like the rest of film history's self-conscious wannabes, however, she is good at creating visual montages of the classic poses of writer's block. It doesn't help. You can't make a film without at least one good idea.

Reality strikes three actors under the rehearsals to the latest controversial play by Mark Bakmo. They each try to keep their private out of the theater, but things only gets more stressful when the last actor Aura shows up. One by one they get unmasked and a palette of emotions unfolds.

Jane is a boxer, preparing for the championship of her life. She wants to win but it's difficult to keep focus when her girlfriend Tanja wants to start a family. When Jane meets Karoline new emotions arises and she decides to leave Tanja. The training escalates, and suddenly Jane seems to be unable to get the firm foothold that she so desperately needs in both her life and in her career.

Memories of young love, music, emotional rollercoasters, and little moments you never forget collide when a young director tries to write a movie about his girlfriend.

On a deserted farm far from civilization, an abused, mute, and severely disabled son lives with his mother, who is a mass murderer. When the son falls in love with a woman his mother has kidnapped, he must break free from his mother's clutches so that his love for the kidnapped woman can blossom.

How well do we really know our parents? And their youth? Do we simply have a vague idea of who they are, and were, before they had us? Cécile embark on a quest to discover truths about her mother and her youth, truths that can't be found elsewhere, than right where it all happened. Southern France. The project is a self-inventory, and an attempt to understand the complexity of parenthood and the dynamics between mother and daughter.

With the climate crisis raging, a young scientist tries to maintain her moral standards within the cynical research company she works for. Forced to rush the development of a new biological artificial intelligence, she makes a choice that will change her - and the world - forever.

At a beautiful hotel near the beach, the Danish and Swedish operations of an international company are having a very important lunch meeting. A merger is imminent, and Karsten is under a lot of pressure from his boss Henrik; if the special entertainment Karsten has prepared for the occasion fails to succeed, he might lose his job.

A young couple, Mads and Theresa, spend the night in a shelter deep in the forest. Mads is deeply in love and plans to propose to Theresa, which is why he has taken her on an overnight trip to the forest. But things don't go as he had expected.

Esben and Katrine meet on the dance floor during the orientation trip and spend the night together. The next day, there is disagreement about what happened and whether they had sex against Katrine's will. The mood is completely ruined, and their fellow students are forced to take sides in the conflict.

Ella seeks out her ex-boyfriend Ernst, who works as a private in a small military base. She wants him home. But Ernst faces a seemingly significant task. Ella quickly turns the systematics that prevail at the military base upside down.