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PARADISE IS BURNING
PARADISET BRINNER
MIKA GUSTAFSON
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PARADISE IS BURNING
PARADISET BRINNER
MIKA GUSTAFSON
Country
SWEDEN
language
SWEDISH
2023 year
108 Minutes

SCHEDULE

01.03.2024 / 04:50 PM/ Audi 11 PVR INOX ORION MALL
07.03.2024 / 07:45 PM/ Audi 8 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

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. 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.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Nima Yousefi
Screenplay: Mika Gustafson, Alexander Öhrstrand
Director of Photography: Sine Vadstrup Brooker
Editor: Anders Skov
Music: Giorgio Giampà
Sound: Gustaf Berger
Cast: Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad, Safira Mossberg, Ida Engvoll, Mitja Sirén, Marta Oldenburg
Awards - Winner: Venice FF (Venice Horizons Award - Best Director, Authors Under 40 Award - Best Screenwriting), London FF (Sutherland Award - First Feature Competition), Guldbagge Awards (Best Film, Best Production Design)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Chicago IFF (Gold Hugo - Best Feature), São Paulo IFF (New Directors Competition - Best Film), Venice FF (Best Film, Queer Lion)
Director's Biography
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MIKA GUSTAFSON

Mika was born in Linköping, Sweden, on April 25th, 1988. In 2016, she graduated from the Valand Film Academy. The same year, she received the Nordic Talents Prize in Copenhagen. Her graduation film, MEPHOBIA, won the Iconoclastic Prize at the Torino Film Festival and Best Actor at Premiere Plans. Her documentary SILVANA was awarded at the National Film Awards for best documentary in 2017. She was part of the Dragon Award Jury at the Gothenburg International Film Festival (2019) and was selected for the Berlinale Script Station in 2020. PARADISE IS BURNING is her first fiction feature.