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Guard of a prison-camp Celebici during Bosnian war, Esad Landzo, convicted for war crimes, is looking for redemption.

"The President from the North" is the positive integration story from Denmark of immigrant Ahmed, who after 50 years in Denmark had become so Danish that he wanted go give the best he had learned back to his motherland Jubaland in Somalia. With a suitcase full of ideas and the dream of making a difference, Ahmed returns to Somalia. But nothing goes as he expected and back home in Denmark his wife Zahra and daughter Idil becomes more and more impatient.

Knud goes to sea as a 14-year-old. When he goes ashore 50 years later, it is with a captain's cap and memories from two world wars in the ship's chest. He has survived submarine attacks, accidents and yellow fever. Along the way, he also meets love, and although it is not easy to be both captain and family man, Anna and the children have raised him as a hero. But when he goes ashore, he is caught in new stormy weather, for which not even two world wars have been able to prepare him. Knud Goth's (1893-1966) story is staged by grandson Simon Bang, who dives from his corner room into the captain's ship chest and the previous century. The film is told with strong visuals and takes us to historical focal points in San Francisco, Cuba, West Africa and Europe, among others.

A road movie about the former florist Birger Bergmann Jeppesen. Though paralyzed from head to toe, he declares that today he is a happier man than before he was stricken with the incurable disease ALS. It is a film about the love of life and of his wife Jutta. And about insisting on being something and doing something for others, even if the only thing he can do is blink. Birger wants to save lives. If he lived in Sweden, he would probably have died several years ago. But in Denmark, as a person with ALS, he has been offered a ventilator that has now kept him artificially alive for more than 10 years. With the ALS disease, the Swedish family father Johan, 43, has only a few months left to live in if he does not get a respirator. Will Birger succeed in helping him?

In spite of the fact that the problem has been known for years, the trade of so-called blood diamonds still fuels wars in southern Africa. By following the track of the diamond from Angola via Zambia and South Africa to Europe it is revealed how shockingly easy it is to change the color of a diamond from red to white.