Dorte Højsted

The Great Silence (2023)

Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alm ...

Another Round (2020)

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives. ...

Blurred Vision (2019)

Andre and his girlfriend Elisa are in love, full of hope, got a new place and just found out she's pregnant! Everything seems perfect, except little things start going wrong and soon Andre is questioning his sanity, the pregnancy and his girlfriend. ...

I am William (2017)

William's father is dead and his mother is mentally ill, so he lives with his uncle Nils. Nils is on early retirement, making money by buying things cheap and selling them high. He has also accumulated a large debt and city's gangsters are on him, demandin ...

The Miracle (2013)

A former dancer returns for the first time in years to his childhood country village to attend his mother's funeral. The man discovers that the love of his youth still lives there, trapped in an unhappy marriage with the town priest. The dancer and his for ...

The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a fer ...

Øresund (2012)

Buster is a seriously-demanding, frantic child who forces his family to seek treatment and a cure for his manic behavior. During treatment conducted by a naturopath, the father is taken deeper behind his son's motivations, uncovering what seems to be a cru ...

Heaven and Hell (1988)

Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, fo ...

Boksning (1988)