Mads Riisom

The Shadow in My Eye (2021)

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were ...

Land Of Glass (2018)

Jas lives together with his father, who is a truck driver and spends lot of time away from home. One day, Jas finds a girl and an old lady hiding in the barn. They call themselves Neia and Alva and have strange clothes and hair. They say they live in the w ...

Word of God (2017)

It is the 1980s. Jens and his brothers live in a single-family house in Risskov, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark. Here, the family's patriarch psychologist and self-appointed God, Uffe, rules the roost in his dressing gown and underwear. Changes threaten the p ...

Across the Waters (2016)

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943. ...

Land of Mine (2015)

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the ...

Rastløs (2015)

Rosita (2015)

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 o ...

Debut (2014)

His friends do not know it, but Anders is a virgin. As he finds himself having the chance to rectify this situation, he seizes it. But it turns out to be complicated. ...

When Animals Dream (2014)

Teenage Marie lives on a small island with her father and catatonic mother. Virtually friendless and sullen, Marie begins to experience frightening changes in her body that mark her as a dangerous threat. ...

A Painter (2013)

We follow a painter, a successful artist living alone and isolated. Driven only by his work, he finds himself lost when he's forced to deal with his unannoced son and other outsiders that stand in the way of his work and get him out of balance. ...

Hvor lyset kommer ind (2013)

Elisa's husband is paralyzed after a traffic accident. She takes care of him at home, but it is difficult. Elisa's in-laws do not believe she can handle the situation and want their son admitted to a nursing home. But Elisa disagrees, and as her life slowl ...

Skyscraper (2011)

Jon is 17. He lives in the midst of a claustrophobic world which once seemed destined to become a seething metropolis of high-rise tower blocks and intersections until one day an absurd traffic accident occurs. At the time, Jon was made responsible. He had ...

A Funny Man (2011)

Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, »A Funny Man« uncovers the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) has found himself in after a fast-tracked rise to fame. He struggles between his own desire to gain critical resp ...

Piv (2011)

The Blessing (2009)

Overwhelmed and extra-sensitive, Katrine has a hard time coping when her more relaxed boyfriend, Andreas, takes a business trip just days after the birth of their first child. The fussy baby has difficulty breastfeeding, and vulnerable, insecure Katrine fe ...

Cathrine (2008)

Cathrine (16) has fallen in love with Lars (33), whom she has met in a local shopping center. Cathrine conceals the relationship from her controlling parents, who would never accept it. But one day after school her secret is revealed. ...

Just Like Home (2007)

The tale of a troubled small town, and the brave few who made it their mission to keep the community together. As the citizens of a secluded Danish town gradually lose their trust in one and other, the sight of a naked man walking through town in the early ...

Mum (2006)

One day the mentally ill Marcus and his retarded girlfriend Una lose their beloved cat Mum. Una is struck by overwhelming sadness and to make her happy again, Marcus makes a fatal decision that changes everything. ...

Debut (2014)

His friends do not know it, but Anders is a virgin. As he finds himself having the chance to rectify this situation, he seizes it. But it turns out to be complicated. ...

Piv (2011)