Mila and Kia are a pair of teenage best friends and aspiring professional footballers. When the girls get a new demanding football coach, they slowly start to drift apart.
Acting
Cela and Sigfridsson capture friendship's death in micro-expressions.
Direction
Hazelius lets silences scream louder than any dialogue.
Cinematography
Grey Swedish skies mirror the girls' fading bond.
Director
Anders Hazelius
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sweden's women's football infrastructure is world-class, making the stakes here painfully realistic for young athletes.
The film deliberately never shows Mila and Kia's happiest moments together — we're only witnesses to the decay, never the garden.