Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours Will Have A UK Premiere At The BFI London Film Festival 2024
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Carl Roberts 
StudioCanal and Zentropa announce the UK premiere of Thomas Vinterberg’s Debut TV Series, Families Like Ours at the BFI London Film Festival.
STUDIOCANAL and Zentropa today announce The UK Premiere of FAMILIES LIKE OURS. The first TV drama series by Academy-Award and BAFTA-winning Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round, The Hunt) will Premiere at The BFI London Film Festival 2024.
This follows The World Premiere at The 81st Venice International Film Festival and the announcement of The North American Premiere at TIFF with FAMILIES LIKE OURS screening in its entirety at both festivals – episodes 1-7. The BFI London Film Festival will Premiere episodes 1 & 2 of the highly anticipated series.
Written by Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen (Department Q: Journal 64, The Art of Crying). And produced by ANOTHER ROUND producers Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing. FAMILIES LIKE OURS reunites Vinterberg and Zentropa with STUDIOCANAL who distributed ANOTHER ROUND in the UK. STUDIOCANAL co-produced and distributed the 7-part series, which was filmed 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 Programme of the European Union, and STUDIOCANAL as co-producer. At the script stage, CANAL+ immediately commissioned the highly anticipated series in France as a CANAL+ Creation Originale.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Countries disappear, love remains.
Denmark, in a not-too-distant future. 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 find themselves apart. Some may be engulfed by animosity and discord. 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. As the evacuation news unfolds, Laura and her family’s lives take an irreversible turn. Faced with an agonizing decision, Laura must choose among the three people she holds dearest.
DISTRIBUTION
STUDIOCANAL’s EVP Global Sales and Distribution Anne Cherel is overseeing worldwide sales. STUDIOCANAL is actively producing a slate of premium international TV series in-house. As well as through its network of award-winning subsidiary production companies.
Families Like Ours will premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.
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