Lone Scherfig

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison

Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Dominic Cooper

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen

Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.

Dir. Andrea Arnold · With Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riseborough, Tahar Rahim

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

Dir. Lone Scherfig · With Max Irons, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth