Nastja Arcel

The Translator (2024)

A young girl has to be the adult in her family, when she and her mother bump their heads against a life-threatening bias in the Danish health system. ...

The Purity of Vengeance (2018)

Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties. ...

Bora Bora (2011)

Mia, 15, is at odds with everyone. School is hell and her mother is always on her back. Mia is only at peace when she is running - something she is good at. On a downtown shopping street she meets Zack, 16, who runs with a gang of kids who want to become p ...

Truth About Men (2010)

Mads moves into a house with his lovely girlfriend Marie when a sudden pang of doubt strikes him. Is this the meaning of life? Has he lived out all his dreams? He drops everything, moves away from his girlfriend and throws himself into a desperate quest to ...

Karla & Jonas (2010)

Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives. ...

Att: Kasimir (2007)

Every day, in a dark office or maybe a prison cell, a man receives an envelope containing a tape of electronic noises that he translates to code using an old typewriter. One day he hears a familiar voice on the tape and begins to question his line of "work ...

The Three Musketeers (2006)

A classic story known all over the world that has captured and thrilled generations of children and adults now in puppet animation format. With all of the sense of childish enthusiasm intact, this romantic story disguised as humour and farce will once agai ...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2006)

A chamber play taking place around Christmas, where Liv, her brother and mother are to celebrate Christmas together. The father has recently left the family and 14 year-old Liv cannot accept that Christmas is not what is used to be. Liv does her best in or ...

The Judge (2005)

Jens Christian is a streamlined career man and newly appointed chairman of the Refugee Board. Work is the center of his life, and everything is going well until an adopted son announces his arrival and an unusually difficult asylum case lands on his desk. ...

Lost Generation (2004)

The film is based on Christian Kampmann's novels: "Certain Considerations", "Solid Relationships", "Clean Lines" and "Other Ways" (1973-75). The Gregersen family is a picture of inner and outer Denmark from the mid 50's to the 70's. The story begins in 195 ...

King's Game (2004)

Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car accident. A flurr ...

Catch That Girl (2002)

Ida's father suddenly gets a stroke and is rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with a deadly disease with no other opportunity than to travel to USA to attend a medical experimental operation. Unfortunately, the small family have to get the money themselves, ...

Agnus Dei (1997)

The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision. ...

Brændende kærlighed (1996)

Twelve-year-old Nina and her parents have just moved into a new house, which is supposed to be the setting for a new and promising future. But Nina is difficult. She tries in every way to intrigue and dominate her parents. Her provocative demands for atten ...

Russian Pizza Blues (1992)

Four parallel stories about a Russian and his daughter trying to get to his wife's Russian Pizza House in New York, but they are stranded in Copenhagen. A girl getting married. A man finding his brother and starting a new life in the city. Two men working ...

Min kone forstår mig ikke (1990)