Ida Åkerstrøm Knudsen
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Mira, a twelve-year-old girl, loves to make arts of recycled trash and spends hours together with her best friends Naja and Louis. One day everything changes when Naja becomes best friends with the new cool girl in class. Suddenly Mira feels left out and starts to wonder if she can stay true to herself, when everything and everyone around her seem to be changing. Should she skip her upcoming arts exhibition and instead try to be more like the other girls in class, talking about love and falling in love? Growing up can be a challenge sometimes…
Mira

When Lucky moves from India to Scandinavia on a student visa, it's a lifelong dream come true. But in Copenhagen Lucky's dream collides with a harsh reality in which people line up to take advantage of his situation, while he has to work day and night to keep his visa. What started out as a golden opportunity increasingly feels like a trap, as Lucky begins to fathom the ramifications of going abroad.
Lucky

The 12-year-old German boy, Mathias, discovers his sexuality on a sailing boat in Denmark. Surrounded by water, trapped on the boat with his parents, who still treat him like a child, his desire is to get on land to have new experiences.
The Boy in the Ocean

Nanna and Marta have been best friends since high school and for just as long, Nanna has been secretly in love with Marta. One night as they visit Marta’s childhood home, an opportunity arises as Marta comes on to Nanna and wants to be with her. But will Nanna dare to seize the chance and potentially put their friendship and her heart on the line?
Aquari

To finally stand on her own two feet, a young woman breaks off contact with her parents and fights alone to keep her self-sustaining farm. As winter sets in and the calving of her pregnant cow draws ever closer, loneliness and a longing for security and family grow. A story about cutting the umbilical cord.
Calf

Tagged as Babydyke by her older sister and her clique, a teenager delves into the party life of the queer scene. Frede doesn’t like labels, she wants to love and be loved.
Babydyke

A young girl has to face her fears and break free from her mothers rules, when she falls in love with a guy, who has a very different view on life and death.