Under Bridges

An intimate portrait of four childhood friends who must suddenly manage the shift from their rehearsal room to national stardom, highlighting their reliance on one another amidst a "loud world"

17-year-old Skjold and 18-year-old Isabel are no longer together, but they will always be each other's first love. The film throws us into a whirlwind of conversations, quarrels and happy moments during a long summer in Copenhagen. A vulnerable and confusing time for the two of them, as they try to define who they are, both as a couple and as individuals. They are entangled in romantic feelings and a strong friendship, and find it hard to let each other go, so to break with her feelings, Isabel decides to move to Barcelona on her own. But will their new freedom give Skjold and Isabel the answers to who they are? Emil Næsby Hansen is the fly on the wall, who effortlessly and without interfering is there with the couple during their ups and downs, managing to capture all the emotional nuances. From romantic love and unbearable loneliness to poetic freedom, with the Danish summer as a moody backdrop.

William is fed up with Næstved. He is tired of living in a field, from where he has to cycle 20 minutes in the dark to get to town, he is tired of keeping half his life secret from his mother and father. And he is tired of his best friend Magnus also starting to behave like his parents. Magnus is fed up with Larry not knowing how to take care of his pets, which always end up dying. Larry is pretty fed up with being called Larry. The three 19-year-old friends are approaching adulthood, and their carefree days of ice-cold beers, shoplifting, and dreams of traveling the world on a shared fishing boat are coming to an end. William is facing a crisis of loyalty. The choice is between their shared boyhood dreams and William's own. Should he stay in Næver or go his own way?