Thomas Vinterberg to present his first series at the 11th Serielizados Fest

The production will be screened exclusively in Barcelona after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It is a fiction set in Denmark, in the near future, in which the country has to be evacuated due to severe flooding. A family drama and also a survival story about a country forced to say goodbye to its homeland.

Vinterberg became internationally known within the Dogma movement with a film as fundamental as The Celebration (1998). During his long career he has also stood out with works such as Dear Wendy (2005), Submarino (2010), The Hunt (2012), The Commune (2016), Kursk (2018) or Another Round (2020), with which he won the Oscar for Best International Film. Families Like Ours represents his first entrance into the series creation.

In addition to the screening of the series with the presence of Thomas Vinterberg, Serielizados Fest – Barcelona International Series Festival will also organize a masterclass with the filmmaker, moderated by Clara Roquet. This masterclass will be held in collaboration with ECAM.

The festival will take place in Barcelona this year between October 14 and 23rd, and will maintain its online window on Filmin from October 15 to 27th. In addition to its usual festival venues (CCCB, Sala Phenomena Experience and CASA SEAT), this year the festival also incorporates Espai Texas.

On September 4th, the festival organizers will give more details about Thomas Vinterberg’s visit and announce new activities with international guests. From that same day on, tickets for some of these sessions will also be available for purchase.

Families Like Ours’s synopsis

In Denmark, in the not-so-distant future, rising water levels due to climate change have reached a point of no return and the country must begin an evacuation. As people scatter in all directions, they try to say goodbye to loved ones, to places they know and also to people they have been.

Slowly but steadily, everything is different. Property is worthless, fortunes change and luck favors only a few. Those who can afford it travel to other countries, while others less privileged depend on government relocation funds to more troubled destinations. Families and friends are separated. Some are overcome by hatred and division, others try to hold on to affection and build a new beginning.

In the midst of this bleak environment we meet Laura, a teenage student about to graduate, immersed in her first love. When the evacuation is announced, the lives of Laura and her family change forever, and Laura is forced to make an impossible decision: to choose between the three people she loves most in this world.

Its cast includes Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt (Another Round), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (The Kingdom: Exodus), Paprika Steen (The Celebration), Helene Reingaard Neumann (Another Round, The Commune), Magnus Millang (Another Round, Borgen), Esben Smed (Follow the Money), David Dencik (Pressure Point, Prisoner, Chernobyl), Thomas Bo Larsen (Another Round, Follow the Money) or Asta Kamma August (Hypnosis, Kalak).

Families Like Ours is produced by Zentropa Entertainments, StudioCanal, Canal+ and TV 2 Denmark. Premiere on Movistar Plus+ in November.