The film is Bier’s ninth feature and third collaboration with Anders Thomas Jensen (director of Adam’s Apples). Bier is considered the most popular Scandinavian director and her previous film, Brothers, was the most seen non-US film in the States last years. It comes as no surprise, then, that her next project, Things We Lost In the Fire, is being produced by Dreamworks and will star Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro.

After the Wedding tells the story of Jacob, who works in India with street children and must unexpectedly return to Denmark to receive a generation donation from businessman Jørgen. During the press conference, the director revealed that the film’s origins lie in the two main characters: “I was immediately drawn to the character of Jacob, while Anders preferred Jørgen. That way, each of us tended to favour their character’s further development. The film took shape from this game.”

Produced by Zentropa Entertainments16 – the production company of leading Dogma proponent Lars Von Trier – After the Wedding also represents the leaving behind of the cinematic artistic and aesthetic movement that turned the film world upside for 15 years. As Jørgensen explained, “The Dogma movement attracted a lot of attention to Denmark and enormously increased our film activity. It allowed us to learn in all aspects of production. Thanks to [Dogma], today Denmark represents quality in filmmaking”.

After the Wedding will be released in Italy by Teodora Films on December 22.