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Rainbow

What does it mean to grow up in a modern family constellation? and how does it affect your own understanding of who you are?

Rainbow’ is a brand new fictional series about finding yourself and taking ownership of your own life and narrative.

As a child in a rainbow family, Molly (Fanny Leander Bornedal) was raised by her two mothers. She never knew her father but yet she has this great need to find him in order to find herself and her own true identity.
Therefore, on her 18th birthday, Molly and her best friend, Tobias (Nikolaj Groth), goes to a fertility clinic, hoping to figure out who her biological father is. However the answer is not as expected and Molly gets even more confused as she discovers that her mothers have lied to her.
However the answer is not as expected and Molly gets confused when she discovers that her mothers have lied to her about who her biological father is.

Will Molly find out about her origins when she confronts her mothers? Will she figure out how she actually came into the world? Join in and watch as Molly and Tobias embark on a cross-border journey in a search of DNA and traces of the men who may, or may not, be her father.

Rainbow - fiction - 7 episodes of 10-20 minutes.

  • Johannes Pico
    Director
  • Tomas Lagermand Lundme
    Writer
  • Johannes Pico
    Writer
  • Jenny Mattesen
    Producer
  • Ulla Hasselbalch
    Producer
  • Fanny Bornedal
    Key Cast
    "Molly"
  • Nikolaj Groth
    Key Cast
    "Tobias"
  • Thure Lindhardt
    Key Cast
    "Janus"
  • Peter Plaugborg
    Key Cast
    "Benjamin"
  • Susanne Storm
    Key Cast
    "Nina"
  • Ditte Maria Le-Fevre
    Key Cast
    "Sonja"
  • Claus Riis Østergaard
    Key Cast
    "Sebastian"
  • Caspar Phillipson
    Key Cast
    "Daniel"
  • Project Type:
    Television, Other
  • Genres:
    Drama, LGBT+, Coming of age, Fiction series
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 40 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 15, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    287,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Denmark
  • Country of Filming:
    Denmark
  • Language:
    Danish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Made By Us, uh@madebyus.dk
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Johannes Pico

Johannes Pico (Born in 1983) is a director, writer and editor-in-chief.
Pico is educated from the danish production company Zentropa and has more than 15 years of experience with fiction and television production such as 1 day, 2 teams, 3 animals which is aired on TV2.
Most recently Pico directed Grænseland for Danish Broadcast (2019), The Smallest Kingdom in the World and several seasons of Motor Mille for DR Ramasjang (2015-2017). He was assistant director on En Frygtelig Kvinde and 2nd unit director on DR's TV-series Borgen (2010-2011), Herrens veje (2018) and
the Danish thriller Skytten (2015)

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Director Statement

There are over 20.000 donor children in Denmark. Many of them are approaching adulthood and they want to know about their origin. Who am I? Who could I possibly have become if I had grown up in a different family instead of the one I grew up in?
Those are big questions that require answers. RAINBOW, to me, is about identity and how difficult it is to feel "whole" when there is a missing piece. Something you don’t know about or can’t find. With this series I want to show that there is no correct way of living as a family. Today we have a more rich and more diverse landscape of different and marvelous compositions of families. And that family is what we make it.
The series premiered during the World Pride which was held this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.