TV2 Denmark backs Families Like Ours
FIRST LOOK: Thomas Vinterberg’s epic Danish drama Families Like Ours will launch locally on TV2 later this year following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The first TV drama from Oscar and Bafta-winning director Vinterberg (The Hunt, Another Round), it is set in Denmark in the not-too-distant future, where 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, high school student Laura is 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.
Written by Vinterberg and Bo Hr Hansen (Darkness: Those Who Kill), the series is produced by Zentropa Entertainments for TV2 Denmark, Studiocanal and CANAL+, in coproduction with NRK, TV4, ARD Degeto, coproduced by Film i Väst, Sirena Film, Zentropa Sweden, Saga Film and Ginger Pictures, in collaboration with CANAL+ Poland and M7.
Studiocanal is coproducer and distributor of the seven-part series which shot on location in Denmark, Sweden, France, Romania and the Czech Republic.
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