FAMILIES LIKE OURS

by Thomas Vinterberg

The first TV drama series by Academy Award® and BAFTA-winning director Thomas Vinterberg

FACTS

Title: FAMILIES LIKE OURS
Original title: FAMILIER SOM VORES
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cast: Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, David Dencik
Genre: Drama
Duration: 50 min per episode
Language: Danish
Additional Languages: English
Country of origin: Denmark
Scriptwriter: Thomas Vinterberg & Bo Hr. Hansen
Cinematographer: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editor: Anne Østerud & Janus Billeskov Jansen
Production Company: Zentropa Episode ApS
Producers: Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Kasper Dissing
Production year: 2024
Budget EUR: 16M
Status: In post-production

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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