Drama Quaterly: Family ties
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by Thomas Vinterberg
The first TV drama series by Academy Award® and BAFTA-winning director Thomas Vinterberg
World premiere at Venice International Film Festival 2024
North American premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2024
Denmark, in a not-too-distant future. The rising water levels can no longer be ignored and the country needs to be evacuated. As people disperse in all directions, they must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and who they are.
Slowly but steadily, everything is different. All property becomes worthless, all fortunes change, and luck favours only a few. Those who can afford it travel to affluent countries while the less well-off depend on government-funded relocation to more challenging destinations. Families, friends, and loved ones are separated. Some will be overcome by hatred and division while others will nurture love and foster new beginnings.
Against this backdrop we meet Laura, a high school student in love for the first time and on the cusp of graduation. When news of the evacuation breaks, the course of Laura and her family's lives are changed forever, and Laura is forced into the impossible dilemma of choosing between the three people she loves the most.
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World premiere at Venice International Film Festival 2024
North American premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2024