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Sf Studios has boarded “Maybe Baby,” a high-concept Danish comedy about pregnancy and fertility treatments which is directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg (“Loving Adults”).

The movie starts shooting this month with Danish actors Mille Dinesen, Katinka Lærke Petersen, Lars Ranthe and Kasper Dalsgaard. Sf Studios is producing with Marcella Dichmann and will handle Nordic distribution.

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“Maybe Baby” follows two couples, Cecilie and Andreas and Liv and Malte, who are both in fertility treatment and discover that the clinic has swapped the fertilized eggs, setting off an avalanche of absurd conflicts. The cast is completed by Sara Boberg, Neel Rønholt, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Laura Bro and Thomas Bo Larsen.

“Fertility treatment is still enormously taboo. As many as 20 of Danes have difficulty getting pregnant, and every ninth child is born through fertility treatment,” said Topsøe-Rothenborg, who recently directed “Loving Adults,” the upcoming Netflix feature film, and “Food Club.”

The helmer pointed out “many...

The film, inspired by the director’s own life, is about a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female.

New Europe Film Sales has sold Malou Reymann’s A Perfectly Normal Family to September Film in the Benelux.

Nordisk is releasing the film this week in Denmark, after it recently won the Big Screen Competition in Rotterdam. The film also played in the Nordic competition in Goteborg.

Other territories are in negotiations now.

A Perfectly Normal Family, inspired by the director’s own life, is about a girl whose relationship with her father...

Director-writer Malou Reymann is perfectly aware that “normal” and “family” are mutually exclusive words — she was 11 when her father transitioned to being a woman, and it’s the memory of what she felt at the time that informs her sensitive and accessible debut, “A Perfectly Normal Family.” Told from the point of view of the younger of two sisters (though not strictly in a Pov manner), the film refreshingly de-sensationalizes her father’s process from Thomas to Agnete, wiping away thoughts of the ludicrous “The Danish Girl” while treating father and daughter in an admirably evenhanded way. Though disturbingly unaware of her daughter’s inner turmoil, Emma’s father’s almost goofy geniality allows her to stay in the audience’s good graces even while sympathies strongly remain throughout with her younger child. Winner of Rotterdam’s Vpro Big Screen Award, which comes with a €30,000 prize as well as guaranteed Dutch distribution,...

The drama is the directorial debut of Damnish filmmaker Malou Reymann

Haut et Court has acquired French rights to Danish filmmaker Malou Reymann’s debut film A Perfectly Normal Family from New Europe Film Sales and plans to release it in mid-2020.

The film is about a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female. It has been selected for the Big Screen Competition in Rotterdam with other festivals expected to be confirmed soon.

A Perfectly Normal Family was presented as a work in progress at Goteborg in January and was selected as part...

The film is Malou Reymann’s feature directorial debut.

New Europe Film Sales has boarded international sales for Danish drama A Perfectly Normal Family, the feature directorial debut of Danish filmmaker Malou Reymann.

The film was presented as a work in progress at Goteborg in January and this afternoon is part of the C EU Soon showcase at Rome’s Mia.

The story follows a girl whose relationship with her father changes when he transitions from male to female.

A Royal Affair’s Mikkel Boe Følsgaard plays the father, and the cast also features Kaya Toft Loholt, Rigmor Rante and Neel Rønholt.