Five-year-old Sara has a very special gift. She can fly. When her mother discovers this she promptly takes Sara to the hospital. The doctors poke, prod and probe as doctors invariably do, and it's no fun at all for young Sara. No one understands her. The thing is that she can only fly when she's so happy that it tingles in her tummy.
Direction
Kjell-Åke Andersson balances magic realism with bureaucratic dread
Acting
Alice Havrell Nilsson's wordless wonder as Sara
Production
Understated flying effects that feel discovered, not shown
Director
Kjell-Åke Andersson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film quietly critiques Sweden's famously efficient social systems by showing how they pathologize what they cannot measure.
Released during a wave of Nordic children's films exploring darker themes; Andersson cited Tarkovsky's 'Ivan's Childhood' as influence for the hospital sequences.
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