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Adam stands between two choices, should he choose his gang or family?

There’s a huge problem. The wristwatch that David’s company launches in a few days has a mistake. It doesn’t count seconds precisely.  This comes up hours before a planned couples vacation. Torn between a huge career opportunity and a vacation with his girlfriend, David forgoes common sense and tries to fix the watch so his co-worker won’t get the credit for it, whilst also enjoying drinks on the beach.

They were once inseparable friends. But then they fell in love with the same boy. Karoline got him first, but then he fell in love with Stine. There was a frosty atmosphere between them for years until they met each other at a party and ended up kissing. Now, Stine and Karoline meet again to confront their shared past. Against a disused dairy as a theatrical backdrop, they relive the intimate closeness of their deep and dramatic friendship. Old diaries, letters and photographs add fuel to the flame that never died between them. But this time, they have sworn to be totally sincere with each other.

When Oscar and his sister receive the news of their parents' divorce, they have to do everything in their power to stop it from happening.

In 2008, archaeologists found over 1,000 bodies in a large mass grave under a discotheque in Copenhagen. For many years there have been rumors that the area is haunted, and clairvoyants have detected strange and aggressive energies. But is it just superstition? And is it connected to the mass of bodies that have been found?

Science student Magnus is terrorized by his fellow classmate. When he seeks out the odd girl Shelly who offers to help rid him of his tormentor things get out of hand.

What happens if we examine what we call the “refugee crisis” from a different angle: military recordings, drone photographs, a 360° camera or satellite photographs? What if we look for images we have never seen – or revisit those we have seen but never noticed – and start wondering how they came about and who they are intended for? The Migrating Image follows the pictorial flow of refugees on their journey to and up through Europe. The film is based on photos of refugees and turns the camera back on us – as we created them and ultimately consume them.

Absurd and gritty collage of hope and madness told through different groups of boys and men, all connected through their bodies and their dreams for the black night.

The four healthy young people from Gangway receive this year's travel grant from the Minister of Culture. This takes them on a subtle journey to Mayrhofen in Tyrol. Due to certain complications, Gangway becomes involved in a manslaughter case and a sweeping change in the town's fate and future.

A hi-tech battle for glory on a deserted beach.

In a boarding house where young girls are kept under strict surveillance, only two persons of the male persuasion are allowed to enter. The gardeners Pat and Patachon are popular among the girls because they can play the accordion and sing songs, both cheerful and sad. One of the girls has attracted Pat and Patachon’s particular admiration: Eve, who dreams of becoming an actress. They clandestinely rehearse Shakespeare with her, but when their arrangement is discovered she is expelled. The pair follow Eve in secret, and they eventually have to save the naïve girl from the clutches of the horrible people she has trustingly become involved with. Stumfilm. dk

Little Miss Ellen Klausen, called "Klaus", is a medical student and is fighting bravely to complete her studies. It was her father's will that she should become a doctor. Klaus is endowed with a strong charisma and infectious joy of life, and she is infatuated with her stylish professor. She exploits her talent for singing by getting a job as a chorus singer under the name "Mille". Here she gets into trouble when she slaps an eager butcher after he has reached out to her.

A zone is defined as an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for different purposes. The code in the film is by AI, the examples cover some fundamental principles of quantum mechanics: superposition, Schrödinger equation, and quantum measurement.

When the two children Torarin and Svalin wants to ride horses, their parents buy two camels instead, but realise it's more difficult than they thought and travel to Mongolia to meet the experts.

A pitch-black, existential tale of a group of workers trapped in the darkness indefinitely. The foreman maintains the routine until the phone rings once more at the full moon and still only has the same vague news of their rescue. He shoots himself. From here, the workers are left to fend for themselves without a leader and they begin an increasingly dark journey into meaninglessness.

This documentary looks at the Danish resistance movement's execution of 400 informers during the Nazi occupation and the ensuing cover-up.

In the northernmost part of the Yakut Tundra, Vladik, a young Dolgan reindeer herder, stands at a crossroads: he must decide whether to follow in his fathers footsteps or join the modern mammoth tusk hunters. His father Roma, rooted in traditional beliefs, advises his son to heed the warnings of their ancestors and avoid the bad omen of unearthing mammoth remains. Driven by the financial gain of the tusk trade, Vladik gives in to the temptation and begins his journey, but at what cost to his family, heritage and the fragile ecosystem of the Tundra?

The classic chase. The mechanics of escape and repression. About identity loss, role-playing, and alienation, as they say.

A story about the isolated Wesley, and the depressing society he lives in. Wesley manages to avoid everything around him, but things take a turn when he meets a man with a connection to something beyond this world.

The film follows bird catchers at work on the rugged west coast of the Faroe Islands, which consists of inaccessible mountains. On the west coast of Skúvoy (Skuøs) live millions of guillemots. The boys are practicing with the net and climbing on small mountain walls. The filming took place in the summer of 1949.

The daily routine of a funeral home in a film where a floating camera spies on the employees and their clients.

If Bamse is bored, he sings his hokuspokus song - and voila! Then he has materialized something funny into existence! Here is Bamse's very funniest DVD with all the very funniest clips from Bamse and all his friends. Watch Bamse teach Chicken to fly! Or when Luna's tent is suddenly completely gone! Or when Bamse and Chicken are sailing on the lake and then Aske falls in the water! Then it'll be difficult to be bored...

"Anna!" is the story of a young woman in the process of learning to stand up for herself by putting her own needs and desires first. Slowly she begins to understand the necessity in being able to say no to others to say yes to herself.

A touching and humorous tale of gender roles and two people’s struggle to fulfil their dream of having a child – with the director herself in the female lead.

Childhood friends Lasse and Alfred have resumed their old tradition and have driven from Copenhagen to Skagen on their mopeds. According to tradition, they have to buy a stick that they can smoke on Grenen, but they can not find the legendary dealer, Cinderella. In their search, they realize that much has changed between them over the years.

Copenhagen, Denmark. Julia and Nina are friends. Julia is festive and creative. Nina is observant and hides behind her camera. Julia fights her alcoholism while Nina tries to understand and help her. A story about mental health, addictions, parties, life crises and art.

Who decides where the cupboard should go in a marriage? The film begins with three cheerful movers, Karl, Fredrik, and Lasse, struggling with a pompous cupboard because an accountant and his wife cannot agree on where it should go. Of course, they eventually agree. Mrs. Accountant is the one who decides. As the three stable brothers drive the moving van away, they run over a young girl. Her name is Lone, and she is the daughter of the accountant they were moving for. She is taken to the hospital with a broken leg. However, love has also entered the picture.

A group of friends from a country without mountains embark on a season-long journey to create a ski and snowboard movie for the freestyle-community the hold so dear. Counting the best riders from Denmark, the group will encounter highs and lows alike, as they set out to get the best shots possible.

Ahmad Jalali Farahani works as a journalist in Iran. On 27 December 2009, he sees an innocent man being killed on the street, but neither Ahmad or his colleagues dare write about the murder. The journalists are hard-pressed and struggle daily against censorship and control, and even the otherwise conservative newspaper Tehran Emrooz gets to know the wrath of President Ahmadinejad, when it is ordered closed after the publication of one single critical picture.

Three women are isolated in a bedroom. A little pig is first loved as a pet, but is later castrated. Symbolizing the wretched man. Out in the dark, a dangerous man, Dracula, is a constant threat.

A young man wants to be a poet so that he can get married. But it is not so easy to write poetry when you want to write poetry. He decides to seek help from the wise wife. The wise woman offers many wise words about how he should write poetry. She shows him how exciting her garden is, if only one has eyes and ears open to impressions and stories—and, not least, a heart.

Superflex create an operatic interpretation of the building of Copenhagen’s famous performance space, one of Europe’s most controversial buildings.

Two houses being demolished with dynamite in Ordrup Krat.

Alexandra (1844-1925), daughter of Christian IX, married in 1863 to Prince Edward (1841-1910), who after Queen Victoria's death in 1901 became King Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland. She often visited Denmark.

Large II "released on DVD in a special issue in a nice box which also contains a book, in the form of" Life Is Large "- a brutally honest, touching and humorous autobiography

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.

Get ready to laugh your ass off and roll on the floor as Jan slams culture and the zeitgeist. He deals out blows left and right, not shying away from awarding himself a well-aimed uppercut. The tone may be raw, but it's constantly tempered by his characteristic self-deprecating humor. Experience our everyman Gintberg more honest, more direct and more raw than ever in this top-tuned, high-energy cascade of sharp jokes.

Information film about the tuberculosis study in Copenhagen. The film effectively polemicizes against the widespread but erroneous notion that the disease does not affect the older age groups.

VOLBEAT’s performance from Tinderbox 2016 in Odense, Denmark

The film shows in a number of pictures that Jutland, which poet priest Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848) loved and sung, among other things.

Storm P. is seen putting the finishing touches on a painting of his iconic ‘Three Little Men’ characters. The men come alive and exit through a door on the left side of the painting. (Stumfilm.dk)