A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
Acting
Mike Almayehu's fearless, untrained authenticity.
Direction
Jörgensen's patient eye for humanizing the invisible.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes silence and small kindnesses.
Director
Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lead actor Mike Almayehu was discovered in a refugee center with zero acting experience; his performance was entirely improvised in Somali.
The film sparked Sweden's first major cinematic conversation about the 'shadow society' of rejected asylum seekers living in legal limbo.
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