It is no coincidence that “Families Like Ours,” the climate change drama series that literally sees Denmark locked down by flooding, is premiering in Venice, a city known for its own existential crisis due to rising sea levels.

“All the water here made it an obvious choice,” says Thomas Vinterberg, the Danish director for whom “Families Like Ours” is his first TV series (and his first project since his acclaimed Oscar-winning feature “Another Round”). “Even in my first letter to Alberto [Barbera] I said there was no other place we could show this than Venice.”

In typical Vinterberg style, “Families Like Ours” — as the title suggests — is about the dynamics and behavior of families and society, this time when the Danish authorities suddenly announce that the country’s citizens will be evacuated and dispersed across the world, to whichever country will take them in.

“It was actually conceived a few years ago as a crazy, futuristic idea, and was rejected by some of my friends,” he explains from Venice. “And suddenly it’s become a normality, which is a bit scary.”