Den Danske Filmskole

A pink neon lamp and a laptop screen illuminate the semi-naked blonde girl on the bed. Her name is Melon Rainbow and she’s working. During the day she has a different job, cleaning for people she has next to no contact with. A blind boy changes that. Melon Rainbow tries to help him and herself.

Escort tells the story of the escort driver Alex. Alex' job is to drive call girls from one customer to the other and protect them from possible danger. One night Lulu gets into Alex' car. Lulu is not like the other girls and Alex slowly realizes that the night ahead of them will be unlike any other.

A woman is miraculously cured of a deadly illness, which sends her into an existential crisis, as she had not only accepted death, but had actually been looking forward to it. Burdened by existence, she begins to daydream about being something else. She becomes envious of her happy and carefree golden retriever, Walter. Her obsession with Walter’s seemingly perfect life, makes her forget to live her own. While she’s paralyzed by the gift of life, Walter sets off on his own adventure.

Among sculptural soaps, tanned skin and freshly made open sandwiches, Danish-Korean Mina runs a luxurious spa on the west coast. Every summer, white guests flock to the spa and are pampered by her and the hotel's staff - mysterious, unknown beings that hover between reality and fantasy. But as the guests' behavior becomes more awkward and discriminatory, Mina's dark hair begins to grow, prompting an unusual guest to check in.

It's night. Perhaps after a dream of an intruder crashing through a window, a woman who's sensitive to light has a telephone conversation with a friend. The woman has a plane ticket from Copenhagen to Buenos Aires at 6 that morning. She doesn't want to go. Her friend encourages her to make the trip. Later, she stands in a car park with her suitcase. Flying geese fill the screen.

When Emma’s troubled brother Oskar is forced out of his group home, she reluctantly takes him in—suddenly burdened with a responsibility she never asked for. As she struggles to keep him in line, his reckless behavior threatens to pull them both under, forcing Emma to question how far she can - or should - go to save him.

Hven 1588 – Sophie pursues a career in science but must break free from her brother's all-consuming ego. Over one fateful night at her brother's decadent lunar eclipse party, Sophie struggles to choose her own path in the world.

Mona is participating in a weekend team building event with her colleagues, when she receives an anonymous complaint from HR for inappropriate workplace behavior. Now, a game of "whodunnit" unfolds, as she tries to smoke out the colleague, who filed the complaint against her.

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.

An intimate statement about the filmmaker’s need for self-expression through her own nudity and simultaneously an effort to reject the taboo of patriarchal society. Using diary entries, anger-filled personal reflections, and discussions with a mother painting her nude daughter, the film opens the topic of overcoming shame for one’s own physicality and female sexuality.

FREE MEN is a comedy about two good friends who get into trouble at their jobs, forcing them to rethink their life situation. Daniel wants to be independent and Emil wants to be safe. In the end, Daniel has to choose between his best friend and his freedom.

The insecure apprentice waiter, Axel, is reprimanded by the old master, Fendrup, for his unpolished serving technique: 'It is necessary to dare to give a part of yourself in order to be able to provide the sublime. Do you dare, Axel?' This evening's 100th birthday party develops into Axel's dizzying encounter with love - of food, wine and the woman he serves for.

For a day we follow a group of children in a kindergarten through their eventful reality. Suddenly the children’s free play is obstructed by a series of tests, which become an encounter with the reality that soon awaits them.

In a stripped-down industrial building in Lisbon, two Brazilian brothers train for a jiu-jitsu championship in Rome. One shares his daily life with his girlfriend and her child. The other fights alone, while his beloved is hospitalized back in Brazil. By day, their bodies wrestle. By night, they drive taxis to send money home.

Set in Copenhagen during World War II, the film follows a German officer who visits his Danish mistress in the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.

An intimate and existential exploration of how a father’s attempt to defy death affects his family’s lives.

A closed psychiatric ward somewhere in Denmark. The doors are locked, the windows impossible to break. Alex is running down the corridor, towards the light, but precisely as she is about to reach freedom, she is swept away. Dragged away. Strapped down. Medicated. But to Alex surrender is not an option. In Darkness is a story about a woman's raging struggle against a system in the process of destroying her.

Five baby birds are born into a threatening and overwhelming world. As their mother struggles to protect them from merciless predators, the baby birds fight their own battles for her attention. A story of survival, the cycle of life, and hope amidst the unforgiving realities of nature.