Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Denmark disappears beneath rising seas in this Thomas Vinterberg drama, and one teenager must choose which parts of her life are worth saving.
What is Families Like Ours about?
Families Like Ours imagines a near-future Denmark where climate-driven flooding forces a full national evacuation. As the government orders citizens to leave, wealth determines who resettles comfortably abroad and who depends on state-arranged relocation to far less certain destinations. At the center is Laura, a high schooler on the edge of graduation and newly in love, whose ordinary teenage milestones collapse the moment the evacuation order arrives. She's forced into a choice between the people she loves most, as her family scatters in different directions and old certainties about home, money, and belonging dissolve. The series traces how displacement reshapes intimate relationships as much as national borders, following Laura's family alongside neighbors and friends navigating the same upheaval from different rungs of privilege. Director Thomas Vinterberg, known for character-driven Danish drama, treats the disaster premise as backdrop rather than spectacle, keeping the focus on what people choose to hold onto when everything else is in motion.
Cast & crew
Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Paprika Steen lead as Laura's parents, navigating the evacuation alongside their daughter, played within a young ensemble that includes Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt and Amaryllis August. Helene Reingaard Neumann, Esben Smed, and Magnus Millang round out a cast drawn largely from Danish film and television, giving the fictional crisis a grounded, familiar texture.
Context & significance
Families Like Ours is a multi-country co-production spanning Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Belgium, and the Czech Republic, reflecting the scale of a story built around continent-wide displacement. Its speculative premise, imagining Northern Europe's response to catastrophic sea-level rise, places it closer to social drama than conventional science fiction. The series holds a 6.6 rating on IMDb, with 50-minute episodes that favor slow character work over disaster-movie pacing.
Where & how to watch
Families Like Ours streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available. The page is free to read for anyone; watching the series itself requires a K-Time account login. K-Time's Farsi-language experience is designed for Persian-speaking viewers seeking thoughtful international drama like this one.