Anders W. Berthelsen

"Italian for Beginners" follows the stories of six insecure singles whose lives interweave one dreary Copenhagen winter.

Cecilie sees and hears things no one else does. Places suddenly change appearance, people aren't really there. One night, she experiences a rape, but no traces are to be found. Her husband Mads places her in a psychiatric hospital. With the help of the psychiatrist Per, she begins to see a frightening connection between her condition and a brutal murder that happened more than 30 years earlier.

When an alien crashes her spaceship on planet Earth, it's up to 11-year-old Allan and his UFO-obsessed neighbor to help get her back to space.

Erna disguises herself as a man to take the place of her intellectually disabled son, Kalle, who has been called to the front. She goes to war in his place. In the trenches, she rediscovers love.

Teenage Thomas and his mom have repeatedly fled from a violent dad/husband. This time, they rent an apartment on a farm. Thomas makes two friends at school. The single farmer likes the mom and helps them.

Sara and her family have always lived by Jehovah's commandments. But when she falls in love with Teis, she is faced with a very difficult decision.

Martin is getting ready for the transitions from boy to man. It's 1976, music and hormones are in the air. But in the midst of it all his mother suddenly passes away triggering a series of events that affects the entire community.

An ambitious hotelier and her reluctant daughter take a trip to Málaga, where they find what they've been craving in a farmer's idyllic mango orchard.

In 2013, young Danish photographer Daniel Rye is captured by ISIS and held hostage in Syria for 398 days, alongside several other foreign nationals.