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- Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol. 7-year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle.
- Svend Aage is an aging prisoner. His son, Max, is doing well in the world "outside" - or so Svend Aage's wife tells him - and is quite unaware that his father is in jail. One day, a new inmate arrives at the gates to serve the most severe sentence ever handed out for violence and drug-related crime. It's Max.
- Two 15-year old cousins, Iben and Sanne, are invited to spend their summer holiday with their aunt, the owner of a dilapidated spa in Eastern Europe. The aunt is an eccentric woman whose life is sustained by memories of a time long past; Iben and Sanne are eager and hungry for life. Soon after their arrival, they discover Felix, a young man who has pitched his tent in the aunt's large, overgrown park. All three women are drawn to Felix. Yet, while the aunt continues in her reveries and Sanne begins to play with the idea of a romance, Iben casts herself into a secretive, new world of longing and intimacy, love and separation.
- Three friends, Steffen, Thomas and Mogens spend a lot of time together in Julies apartment while they talk about soccer and how to get enough money for tickets to the big game next week. At the same time Julie is trying to get in contact with her boyfriend René who she thinks is having an affair. They all talk a lot about whats on their mind during this week.
- Cafe Hector is the new in-place for the chic, high-flying, articulate jet-set, where steaming cups of cappuccino accompany their trendy chit-chat. Uffe is definitely not "in". He can't get a cappuccino, but he is given permission, just this once, to use the toilet. But Uffe is prepared for the situation. He can't take any more humiliation and he is armed!
- Marika meets Mads and their two hearts beat as one, but Marika is still oddly stand-offish. She is planning a trip abroad with her friend Helle, but restless Helle's increasing drug habit gradually makes the plans fall apart. But Marika bears a terrible secret. She's got to get away. Away from Helle's father.
- The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
- Even though Frode is only 7 years old, he doesn't really believe in monsters. All that quickly changes when Frodes father is going out with his new girlfriend Mette, who hates children. She gives Frode a small monster puppet, which Frode throws in the closet in his bedroom. Later on, when Frode is safely tucked in bed, something is stirring in the closet, because that little monster puppet is no ordinary puppet.
- A stranger comes to town. The enigmatic protagonist, Seth, gets off the bus one hot summer day at the end of August and takes rooms at the local inn. This sets off a long chain of reactions in the town. Reactions that have dramatic and fatal consequences for everyone involved.
- Sinan is a second generation Turkish immigrant. He is young, restless and he likes the ladies. His parents have found him a bride, the beautiful Gül. They have also planned for him to take over his father's restaurant after the wedding. But Sinan has other fish to fry.
- A composer with a straining birth name is caught between his mother fixation and his need to father his own ambitions.
- Henrik and Jacob have just finished high school, but they can't get into university, so Jacob gets a job as a waiter and Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner went bankrupt and committed siucide. During the clearance Henrik finds a book that gives minute details of perfect crimes. Henrik tries the first description - and everything goes according to plan. But what about the second? Or the third?
- Hugo is 18 years old, works in a garage in a provincial town, plays pool with his mates and dates teenage Betina. Hugo wants something else, but he doesn't know what - and it's hard for him to pull himself together. Until he meets student nurse Ester, who is in her 20s.
- In the old days, things were different. Art, too. It assembled and passed on human experience and knowledge. But in today's Denmark, something else is wanted from art. It has to experiment and break new ground. It is almost a political requirement. The more conventional the politics, the harsher the politically correct requirements for the artist. Sliced up, rotting pigs are not enough anymore! Art must move on. But how can the poor artist surpass his predecessors and become a success?
- Love has a price in this quirky sex comedy. Sten is a 30- year-old librarian. Over a book he meets supersexy Katja, the woman of his dreams, and they soon end up in bed together. It's love at first sight, but the next thing he knows, Katja wants money every time they make love. Otherwise their relationship will become trivial, she says. Reluctantly Sten agrees, but then Katja puts up the price.
- Scrawny, awkward, unlucky Tifanfaya gets a queer start to her life as a orphan. Uncle Brutus and aunt Mathilde agree to look after her, but for devious reasons: Tifanfaya lives in a castle which Aunt Mathilde would like for her very own. But clumsy Tifanfaya becomes Queen of the Mountain Bandits and with her gang she rebels against her wicked stepmother and wins back her castle and her country.
- An experimental narrative about a filmmaker who discovers what appears to be a murder on an old film he finds at a yard sale, and his ensuing quest for the truth.
- Henrik is young and in love and moves with his girlfriend Anne into a commune in the countryside. It is the dawn of the 70's, a time to challenge authority and experiment with relationships. Henrik is challenged too: His role as a man is exhibited and discussed, he has to learn how to sew, to sleep in the group bedroom, to share his inheritance with the commune and his beloved Anne with a lesbian.
- The two brothers Theis and Nico find a poster from "Gone with the Wind" and they start talking about why people kiss and the techniques behind it. Later they meet Giinjha and she invites them to her birthday-party. While they are preparing to go to the party they rehearse how to kiss in the way the poster suggested because Theis has announced that he is in love with Giinjha and will kiss her even though he is not comfortable about it.
- Jørgen Klubien learnt his craft in the American cartoon industry. He returned in an animated state as the main character in this partly autobiographical variation of "Pinocchio". The little wooden boy wants to conquer the world with his unfailing imagination and his pencil. In Hollywood he falls into the clutches of ruthless Mr. Strombolo, but is saved by the good fairy in the shape of the Queen of Denmark herself.
- The remote, dark house hides a terrible secret. From the nursery a grammophone merrily churns out a happy summer song, but there is no child. Daniel died in an accident, and his mother is tormented by grief and guilt. She keeps seeing Daniel, but also his frightening fantasy figure Little Man, with the sharp, gleaming razor. A mysterious visitor appears out of the rain. He knows the secret.
- Per tries to help people get a new antenna, but gets into serious trouble.
- Anne and Niels-Peter live in a fishing village by the North Sea. They are going steady, but Anne thinks everything round there is a bit dull. Things liven up when a group of young German surfers camp on the beach. Anne and her girlfriend think they look smashing, but the local lads haven't much time for them. What business have these flashy German jerks got here? One night, when Anne and her girlfriend are dancing with the Germans at the local disco, a fight starts and Anne is forced to take sides.
- Charlotte and Teis, partners for some years, are going to climb a mountain, literally and metaphorically. During a climbing trip to Kullen in Sweden, Charlotte is inches from falling to her death.Teis stands paralyzed, and she is only saved by the intervention of the experienced climber, Lasse. This leads to an emotional avalanche for Charlotte. Her relationship with Teis is threatened. Charlotte contacts the perfect life saver to thank him, but everything isn't what it seems.
- Two sisters find themselves in a family crisis when their parents, in search of identity, decide to become Christians.
- Director Søren Fauli willingly exhibits and investigates his own weaknesses. With a healthy and curious self-centredness he recognizes that he's an uninhibited supermaterialist. He can't get enough. And one day he gets the fantastic chance to carry out as much as he can from an electronic store in three minutes. But how?
- The beer monkey population is increasing by leaps and bounds as they splash their frothy territorial claim across the city jungle clearings. Our devoted guide, nosy Mrs. Ryslinge, leads us through the beer-bellied wilderness and lets the public get a close look at the beer monkey's water holes and habitats.
- 16-year-old Rasmus' biggest interest is computer games, until he meets Belma who is 15. She lives with her father Josip on a refugee hostel boat and has fled from the war in Bosnia. Josip becomes involved in a terrible act of vengeance against a former prison camp guard and is arrested by the Danish police. Belma is all on her own now and Rasmus realizes that he is the only one who can help her.
- A comedy about Belinda who is unhappy. Her boyfriend is in prison, and he can't stand being locked up. So Belinda has to get hold of the Crown Prince. He will understand her and see to it that her boyfriend is pardoned. Her hunt for the prince takes Belinda on an Odyssey among the spoilt and selfish upper classes. Fortunately, Belinda has a heart and a willpower that defy anything.
- In 1950s Copenhagen, Jens is a law student with a part-time job in a law firm. He lives at home and is more or less engaged to Lis. Jens' life is very regular and organized until he meets slightly older Erhard, a head clerk at the firm. Erhard lures Jens into the mysterious city nightlife, and from now on, Jens' life changes. The engagement is broken off and his education is neglected.
- Ole Jensen is a disillusioned, middle-aged, overweight, ex-leftist divorcee with an early retirement pension. A therapist tells Sourface that he is just too dull. How about taking Tango lessons? But Ole Jensen looks a fool at the dancing class. He steals his instructor's flight ticket to the true homeland of Tango, where dancers, writers and activists take him to task.
- Zacharias is a painter who lived a hundred years ago. While he is painting his beloved girlfriend, who is sitting on a boat on the lake, the boat capsizes. The girl falls in the water, Zacharias jumps in after her, and they both disappear. The unfinished painting is left on the bank of the lake. Zacharias sinks down through the water and comes up again, a hundred years later, in the middle of a Copenhagen fountain - just as a large exhibition of his paintings is opening at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts. Among the exhibits is the unfinished portrait. To everybody's dismay, Zacharias wants to finish it.
- A sunlit landscape. Green and lush. The emblem of our Danish childhood summer in the country. Before the world went out of joint. Though these landscapes Aage drives his bus every day. He has done so for ages. The bus was once a vital part of the local community. Today nobody uses it; but Aage obstinately drives the bus every day. Why? Does he want to preserve an innocent past? Soon something will happen that will bring Aage up to the present in one night.
- Elisabeth is a 70-year-old woman who has injured her leg. Karima is a young girl of immigrant parents who is hired to help Elisabeth. Their backgrounds are very different, and their relationship is characterized by skepticism and suspicion until they find each other in music, their mutual passion. When Karima must suddenly get married, it appears that their lives are perhaps not all that different.
- Fathers-to-be will tread cautiously after seeing Peter Gren Larsen's film, which respectlessly crosses "Get fit after giving birth" with "The Chainsaw Massacre". Babies are admired and experiences shared in the mothers' group, but something isn't right. Camilla's husband is lying in bed with a huge hole in his head. Camilla and her frying pan put an end to his life, but how can she escape prison so she can bring up baby herself? The mothers go into action and they do it with a vengeance in this paraphrase of "The Perfect Murder".
- Inger is single. She gives the many couples that hug and kiss each other wistful looks, but nobody sees Inger. Not even the young policeman she's in love with. Inger works at the Central Station and so does the policeman. He's very busy; a young woman has been raped by a man wearing a hood. An opportunity arises, and on an impulse Inger pretends to be the victim of an attempted rape. Suddenly the young policeman sees her, and Inger starts dreaming about future. But things don't turn out the way she imagined.
- A film about attitudes and self-insight. The protagonist, Mads, was a front figure in the band "Madssacre" in the 80's. In the 90's, he's an anachronistic wreck. Booking manager Lone's attempts to recreate the band is doomed to failure. Repeating the past can't solve the problems of the present. At the end of the film, both Mads and Lone have reached a point where they can start liberating themselves from their attitudes.
- 16-year-old Frida and Mona take the train from the suburbs to Copenhagen on a Friday night to get rid of their virginity. They make themselves up and change their clothes in the ladies' room at the Central Station and the manhunt in Copenhagen's night-life can begin.
- In a modern city people live side by side but still in completely different worlds. Anis is a young immigrant girl who isolates herself in her room. In a well-lit living room across the yard, a young blonde girl plays her cello every night. Anis is fascinated by the girl with the cello, and one night Anis calls her and asks her to play, so she can hear the music over the phone.
- Nine-year-old Niels is alone with his mother in their summer cottage. He prefers to stay on his own in the shed, building a model ship. One day, the cautious boy meets the slightly older, charming Eva, who wants to play "sweethearts" and tempts him to kiss her. But in more than one sense Niels is frightened of the deep water.
- A 7-year-old boy is on a holiday with his mother, but it turns out to be anything but a holiday. When the boy is left alone, a family tragedy begins to unfold, and he is brutally torn out of the comfort and safety that his mother has built around him. A touching and moving film.
- 14-year-old Kasper has a problem: His best friend Jon causes their team to loose a football game. Now the other team members what to set Jon of the team - and they want Kasper to tell him. So what is most important - the friendship or to win?
- The scene takes place in 1212 at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The Queen has suddenly taken ill at Riberhus Castle. In her feverish dreams she meets the persona of death with its bony hand holding the white queen on a chessboard. Several mile's away, King Valdemar Sejr, who doesn't yet have knowledge of his wife's illness, is out on a hunt. Suddenly his falcon disappears in the woods and the king pursues it. He finds it on the shoulder of a bony man who is dressed in a black mantle and waiting for him beside a chessboard.
- What happens when a female Polish capitalist meets two lazy Danish welfare state boys? On a job-activation trip to Poland Jens meets Renata. One day she turns up at his doorstep in Copenhagen, carrying a huge suitcase. She moves in, and they start up a relationship. But Renata soon finds out that Jens doesn't do much apart from fishing, drinking beer and dreaming of his big breakthrough - a nice and easy life financed by the state. But Renata has other plans.
- "Julie let her long hair go, got herself a new Romeo" says one of the guys to the other in "When do the Violins set in?". Yes, there is cause for concern. Lars' girlfriend is not only in doubt whether her hair should be long or short, but also whether he is the right one for her or not. What does a young semi-rejected lover do in that situation? He goes to see his best friend, who is not particularly happy with his love life either. When the two of them go to the cinema, fate ties up the threads of the story very happily. This is when the violins set in - in "real" films.
- Dating habits and scoring tricks are some of the ingredients in this modern love satire. Emma is looking for a man who is more chivalerous than lecherous. Albert is looking for yet another one-night stand, so he invites her out for dinner. Emma picks a Bulgarian restaurant where even the house wine is a serious matter. And things become even more serious when three gunmen enter the place. A memorable date for Albert.
- Granny is visiting 7-year old Katja. They make Christmas decorations and tell each other stories, but suddenly Granny becomes ill and has to be taken to hospital. Soon after Katja is visited by an invisible angel that moves into her ear. Katja can't see the angel, because only those people who are going to die can see angels and ony the ones who need them can hear them speak.
- Bjarne and Bibi are constantly on the road between seaside hotels on the west coast of Denmark where they have tried to be a success with their songs and music for many years. They are a couple off and on stage, but things aren't going too well. Bjarne is fed up with this race, he wants a small house and an ordinary life with a wife and child. Bibi is struggling to build a career and become a star, a struggle that makes her bitter and self-righteous. It's time for a showdown. Not least with oneself.
- Malene Vilstrup has created an ambitious work, a pixilation film that combines various animation techniques in this modern doomsday vision, where love wins in the end and makes Carl the stamp collector overcome his fear of leaving his cosy little flat. The world outside frightens Carl, who is shocked by all the wars and violence he sees on TV. One day, the postman delivers a cardboard dog that becomes a new dimension in his world.