The filmmaker helms STUDIOCANAL and Zentropa-produced series “Families Like Ours,” which is set in a not-too-distant future where climate change has forced evacuations. Vinterberg co-wrote the series with Bo Hr. Hansen (“Department Q: Journal 64,” “The Art of Crying”), and reunited with his “Another Round” producers Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing for the show.
The official synopsis for the Denmark-set series reads: “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.”
“Families Like Ours” had its world premiere at Venice and will later screen at TIFF 2024 . Both festivals will debut the series in its entirety, with all seven episodes. The series was sold by STUDIOCANAL, who also distributed “Another Round” in the U.K.
“To be selected for the Toronto Film Festival is a great honor and tremendously important for the series’ promotion in North America, but first and foremost it is always an uplifting experience to premiere before the super attentive and engaging Canadian audience and the esteemed TIFF-festival directors,” Vinterberg said in a press statement. “I am very grateful to return, and thrilled that they have chosen to screen all 7 episodes!”
STUDIOCANAL is co-producer and distributor of the 7-part series which shot on location in Denmark, Sweden, France, Romania, and The Czech Republic. Zentropa Entertainments and TV 2 DENMARK developed the series with support from the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Fund and The Creative Europe MEDIA program of the European Union. At script stage CANAL+ immediately commissioned the highly anticipated series in France as a CANAL+ Creation Originale.
The series is produced by Zentropa Entertainments for TV 2 Denmark, STUDIOCANAL and CANAL+, co-funded by The Danish Film Institute – Public Service Fund, The European Union and Nordisk Film & TV Fond in co-production with NRK, TV4, ARD Degeto, co-produced by Film i Väst, Sirena Film, Zentropa Sweden, Saga Film and Ginger Pictures, co-produced with the support from Czech Film Fund and BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance in collaboration with CANAL+ Poland and M7.
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