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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion

A woman runs against the direction of a crowd of protesters who have their fists raised and are holding placards
Laura (Amaryllis August) runs through a crowd of protesters in the Danish cli-fi drama Families Like Ours Photograph: Per Arnesen/Canal+

Featuring scenes of huge crowds boarding ferries, protest and desperation as six million Danes become climate refugees and life as they know it rapidly collapses, the new TV series by the Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg is a potential “look into the future”, he says.

Familier som vores (Families Like Ours) – a drama which depicts a flooded Denmark shut down and evacuated – has been viewed nearly 1m times and become a national talking point. At its premiere at the Venice international film festival, it evoked tears, shouts and a standing ovation, with one critic describing it as “grimly prophetic”.

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