Paradise is burning (first feature)

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Paradise is burning (Paradiset brinner)

Paradise is burning (Paradiset brinner)

original title:

Paradiset brinner

directed by:

cast:

Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad, Safira Mossberg, Ida Engvoll, Mitja Siren, Marta Oldenburg, Andrea Edwards

screenplay:

Mika Gustafson, Alexander Ohrstrand

cinematography:

Sine Vadstrup Brooke

editing:

Anders Skov

set design:

Catharina Nyqvist Ehrnrooth

costume design:

Susse Roos

production:

Hobab, Intramovies, Toolbox Film, Tuffi Films, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Swedish Film Institute, Film Stockholm, Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Eurimages

country:

Sweden/Italy/Denmark/Finland

year:

2023

film run:

108'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (25/07/2023)

festivals & awards:

In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But when social services call a meeting, Laura has to find someone to impersonate their mom, or the girls will be taken into foster care and separated. Laura keeps the threat a secret, so as not to worry her younger sisters. But as the moment of truth draws closer, new tensions arise, forcing the three sisters to negotiate the fine line between the euphoria of total freedom and the harsh realities of growing up.