The New Country

The New Country

2000 · 128 min · SV · 7.0 (18 votes)
Dir. Geir Hansteen Jörgensen · Starring Mike Almayehu, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Lia Boysen, Lars Väringer, Nicholas Riesbeck, Evert Lindkvist · Music Dan Berglund
DramaComedy

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.

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A quiet, character-driven journey through the Swedish summer. It's a wry, observational drama about finding connection and hope amidst the uncertainty of displacement, blending gentle humor with a poignant sense of melancholy.

wrymelancholichopefulobservationalsteadysocial realismcharacter-drivenarthouse dramaidentitybelongingcultural clashresilience
refugeeswedensocial satireafricansomali
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