(2023, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland, 108')
In a working-class Swedish neighbourhood, sisters Laura, Mira, and Steffi, aged 7 to 16, live on their own, as their mother is largely absent. When social workers ask to meet her, Laura frantically looks for someone who can impersonate their mother, so the sisters won’t be placed in foster care and separated. Laura tries to keep it all under wraps, but as the meeting date inches closer conflict grows, keeping the family suspended between enthusiasm for freedom and the weight of the situation.
Mika Gustafson is a Swedish director and screenwriter. She graduated in film at the Valand Academy Folköhgskola in Gothenburg with filmmaker Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness). Gustafson worked extensively on short movies, her most famous being Mephobia of 2017, followed in the same year by feature-length documentary and musical biopic Silvana, produced with Olivia Kastebring and Christina Tsiobanelis.
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