1996 film by Aage Rais-Nordentoft

2009 film by Matthias Glasner

A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".

1996 film

The film follows a group of friends and their highs and lows in pursuit of romantic redemption. It takes place over three years and is divided into eight parties : New Year's Eve, one housewarming, Midsummer, a wedding, a surprise party, a name of celebration, anniversary and birthday parties. The friends are all late thirties or early forties. They fought all with their own idea of ​​what the perfect love really is, and must re-evaluate their perception in the course of history.

Lorsque Ditte Jensen se retire avec les honneurs des services secrets danois, elle emménage dans un immeuble de Reykjavik où elle va pouvoir cultiver son jardin et vivre sa vie dans l’anonymat. Mais Ditte ne peut cesser d’être qui elle est. Un soldat d’élite et une guerrière. Et bientôt l’immeuble se transforme en champ de bataille pour un monde meilleur. Avec son sens profond de la justice, elle décèle les problèmes de ses voisins et se sent obligée de les aider, qu’ils le veuillent ou non. Et dans son monde, la fin justifie les moyens. Toujours.

Foreign Minister Birgitte Nyborg finds her career in jeopardy when a dispute over oil in Greenland threatens to become an international crisis.

2007 film by Simon Staho

A man grows up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but his diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helps him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man – who is none other than the director's father – a man of powerful emotions. The film explores the nature and origin of the guilt that repeatedly deprived him of happiness.

Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.

Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino Rosita to come to Denmark - just as many other men in the town have done before him. Johannes is reluctantly drawn into this as Ulrik's translator. However, over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other which forces Johannes to take responsibility for his dreams and his future.

Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.

An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.