The New Country

Det nya landet

Sweden

2000

137 Min

Color

1.66:1

Swedish, Persian

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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EXEC Gunnar Carlsson, Tomas Eskilsson

SCR Peter Birro, Lukas Moodysson

CAST Mike Almayehu, Ingrid Luterkort, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Lia Boysen, Lars Väringer, Nicholas Riesbeck, Evert Lindkvist, Inga Ålenius, Jan Åström, Simon Norrthon, Anette Lindbäck

PROD DES Gunnar Bertilsson

Berlinale (Forum): Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, São Paulo: International Jury Award, Vancouver: Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award

Synopsis

A 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them they decide to the take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer. —IMDb