Birthday Girl
In this thrilling Danish mother-daughter drama starring Trine Dyrholm, a dream cruise to the Caribbean islands turns into a nightmare.
Nanna has invited her daughter Cille and her best friend on a cruise to celebrate her 18th birthday. The expectations are high and the drinks plentiful, but the festivities come to a sudden end when Cille is found alone on the deck in the morning. When it is suspected that she has been abused, both mother and daughter are thrust into a complex series of events, with Nanna realizing she must take matters into her own hands to find the assailant. Trine Dyrholm and Flora Ofelia Hoffmann Lindahl deliver dazzling performances in a dense drama filled with unexpected twists.
Noer based BIRTHDAY GIRL on a New York Times article about the scale of sexual violence on cruise ships and the inadequacy with which the perpetrators are prosecuted.