Families Like Ours (Familier som vores) · Denmark (2024)
Thomas Vinterberg, the director of Another Round and The Hunt, makes his television debut with a seven-part series about the complete evacuation of Denmark due to rising sea levels.
The premise is quietly radical: what happens to a wealthy, stable European country when it becomes the refugee crisis instead of watching one from a distance. Vinterberg stays focused on the human cost, on families separated by circumstance and economic means.
The Employees (De Ansatte) · Olga Ravn · Denmark (2018)
A workplace chorus on a spacecraft, where humans and non-humans file short testimonies about routine, objects, and what begins to shift inside them.
4 (The Pink Album) · Lukas Graham · Denmark (2023)
Lukas Graham goes for a simpler approach here. The songs are built around piano and a voice that stays front and centre. The themes are everyday ones: family, routine, responsibility, and the strange feeling of getting older while life keeps moving.
It is not an album designed to impress with constant surprises. It works because it stays consistent and easy to follow.
ECCO · Denmark
A rare case of full vertical integration. Headquartered in Bredebro, ECCO controls the chain from tanning to assembly. Its Fluidform direct-injection sole process avoids heavy reliance on glues and creates a flexible, durable bond. Even with global operations, the point is control: fewer black boxes, stricter material standards, and a manufacturing culture that treats how it is made as part of the product.
Another Round (Druk) · Denmark (2020)
If so many people drink a glass of wine to feel more relaxed on a first date or in a club, would it work the same way before a difficult exam or a work meeting?
In Another Round, four teachers decide to stop wondering and start testing. They attempt to maintain a constant, low level of alcohol in their blood to see if it makes them sharper, more creative, or simply more alive.
It sounds like a reckless experiment, but the film is actually a brilliant, bittersweet look at the mid-life crisis. Mads Mikkelsen is magnetic, showing the gap between who we are and who we once expected to be.
It is delivered with a very Danish kind of honesty—and a final scene you won’t easily forget.