PARADISE IS BURNING

108 min | Sweden | Feature Fiction Drama | Mika Gustafson

Three sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. When the social services demand a family meeting, oldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Venice Film Festival – Orizzonti Award –Best Director; Pedicini Award – Authors Under 40 Award For Best Directing

BFI London Film Festival – First Features Competition – Sutherland Award For Best First Feature Film

Nordic Film Days Lübeck –Youth Jury Prize; Interfilm Church Prize

PRESS QUOTES

“IRRESISTIBLE!”

“seeing a star being born”

5th Dagens Nyheter, Fredrik Sahlin

“Wild and suggestive”

4th SR P1 Kulturnytt, Jenny Teleman

“EXPLOSIVE emotions…touches deeply”

4th Moviezine, Anna Hedlin

“warm, beautiful, funny”

SVT Morgonstudion, Sofia Olsson

PRESS IMAGES

Credits

Starring

Bianca Delbravo

Dilvin Asaad

Safira Mossberg

Ida Engvoll

Director

Mika Gustafson

Screenplay

Mika Gustafson & Alexander Öhrstrand

Producer

Nima Yousefi

Executive-Producers

Peter Krupenin

CO-Producers

Marco Valerio Fusco

Maria Stevnbak Westergren

Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin

Charlotta Denward

Kristina Börjeson

Cinematography

Sine Vadstrup Brooker

Editor

Anders Skov

Sound design

Gustaf Berger

Production design

Catharina Nyqvist Ehrnrooth

Music

Giorgio Giampà

Custome designer

Susse Roos

Make-up

Kaisa Pätilä

Produced by

HOBAB, INTRAMOVIES, TUFFI FILMS, TOOLBOX FILM