In September the shooting starts for Families Like Ours, Thomas Vinterberg’s new 6-part TV drama series. Written by Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round, The Hunt) and Bo Hr. Hansen (Darkness: Those Who Kill). It is set to shoot on location in Denmark, Sweden, and The Czech Republic.

This is Film i Väst’s fifth co-production with Thomas Vinterberg and the third production  that is shot in Västra Götaland. The previous co-productions are Another Round (2020), The Commune (2016), The Hunt (2012) and It’s All About Love (2003).

Families Like Ours takes place in summertime Denmark where everything seems normal, but is about to be disrupted. After a flood slowly takes over the country, the country is gradually evacuated. People must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and to who they are. In the coming years, people disperse in all directions: only houses, schools and empty streets are left.

Those who can afford it travel to good countries, while those who are less well-off have to use a government-funded program to move to more challenging places. Families, friends and loved ones will be separated; hatred and division will arise among some, while love and reconciliation will grow among others. In a flash, all property is worthless, all fortunes changed, and luck favors only a few of the traveling population.

Laura is a high school student in love for the first time and on the brink of graduating, when news of the evacuation breaks. A reality that will forever change the course of her life and force her to choose between her divorced parents, Fanny and Jacob, and their families.

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 programme of the European Union, and Studiocanal has now been attached as co-producer and labels the series as a CANAL+ Creation Originale.

The series is produced by Zentropa Entertainments, Kasper Dissing and Sisse Graum Jørgensen  in co-production with Studiocanal & TV 2 Denmark and in co-production with Zentropa Sweden (Lizette Jonjic), Film i Väst, Sirena Films, NRK and TV4 / C MORE with the support from the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Fund.

Photo: Anders Overgaard, TrustNordisk