Nicest Men on Earth

According to Women, Peace and Security Index Denmark is the best country in the world to be a woman. Here, women excel in education, build careers, and can even demand that their partners take a share of the parental leave that used to fall exclusively on women. But where does that leave Danish men? And especially the sensitive men, as women charge forward, career-driven and poised to take the lead in the workplace—without relinquishing their position at home? Nicest Men on Earth is a tender, humorous, and affectionate group portrait of some of the sensitive and sweet men who find themselves disoriented by a loss of status and wavering self-esteem. The question is whether the country’s ambitious women even want the men they’ve left behind? Through three generations of men—the lovesick high schooler, the unemployed, humanities-educated father, and the struggling architect—all based in Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus, the film tells a story of not being the best, of losing both at home and in the wider world, and of feeling stuck while everyone else rushes ahead.
A humorous reflection on the new gender reality and our ingrained ideas about what it means to be a “real man”.