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
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.
- Asian Cinema Competition
- Indian Cinema Competition
- Kannada Cinema Competition
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Country Focus - Germany
- Critics Week
- Bio-Pics
- Kannada Cinema of Popular Entertainment
- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA