Benedikte Hansen

The Girl with the Needle

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

MOR / DATTER

An Example

The nurse Emma arrives for her evening shift at a closed psychiatric facility. It's a day like any other. Colleagues are out sick, patients are dealing with acute problems and Emma and her colleagues must be creative to get the through the shift in the best possible way. In only twenty minutes their trust in the system will be put to a test.

Cry Wolf

The intense and emotional story of a teenage girl who has written a vivid school essay detailing her stepfather’s violent behavior. The parents deny the accusations, but who is lying – and who is telling the truth?

Ambassadøren

With Ambassador Tina Friis-Thomson at the helm, the staff at the Danish Embassy in Mexico City will show and promote Denmark's very best sides. However, the ambassador's own goal is to promote herself.

Grow

When newly graduated stockbroker Adam discovers his father has died, he leaves his stressful life to return to his roots, taking on his father's role as the leader of a biker gang. At the same time, Adam's brother Jakob has left this messy family and taken a job with the police anti-drug department. This Danish thriller sees the two brothers ending up on a collision course with each other as they choose opposite paths in life.

The Sommerdahl Murders

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

Denmark

Herb’s life is a mess. He’s lost his welfare, can’t hold a job, can’t talk to his son, has a neighbour who won’t shut up and a diet that consists mainly of cheap beer and mushy peas. It’s no way to live and he knows it. Then he learns from a TV news report that Danish prisoners have it way better than he does: a job, accessible healthcare, the quiet of the countryside, even an HDTV. They’re practically living in hotels. He says goodbye (and good riddance) to his dingy flat and smuggles himself to Denmark aboard a cargo ship, landing in a quaint town with everything he needs -- including a bank to rob. But when he meets a friendly local barmaid and a lovable stray dog that won’t leave his side, he begins to wonder if prison really is his only chance of a fulfilling life.

Theo and the magic talisman

Theodor travels to the magical land of Thannanaya to save his grandfather from dying. With him on the trip he gets Simone, who has just started the class.

The New Nurses

The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse.

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Love and Other Catastrophes

Rosa is a successful psychologist and author. She has two children with her husband Frederik, who runs a mechanic's workshop for luxury sports cars. But something is wrong in the midst of this seemingly idyllic life. Frederik has a secret mistress who is pregnant with his child. When she seeks out the city's best psychologist—Rosa—to figure out what to do, Rosa and Frederik's otherwise secure world is turned upside down. In a tragicomic way, they are now both forced to look at themselves, each other, and their actions in order to answer the question: Do we even have a future together?