Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Paradise is Burning

Mika GUSTAFSON 2023 Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Italy color 108min DCP
In a working-class area of Sweden, three sisters get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But when social services call a meeting, Laura has to find someone to impersonate their mom, or the girls will be taken into foster care and separated...

Director

Mika GUSTAFSON

A Swedish director born in 1988. GUSTAFSON graduated from Valand Film Academy. Her documentary Silvana was awarded at Swedish National Film Awards for Best Documentary in 2017. She was selected to Berlinale Script Station in 2020. Paradise is Burning is her debut feature.

Mika GUSTAFSON

2023 Paradise Is Burning

2017 Silvana 龐克拉拉戀

2017 Mephobia Kids

2017 Mephobia

2014 22nd May

2013 Secretly Filmed My Boyfriend After We Had a Fight

Screenwriter: Mika GUSTAFSON, Alexander ÖHRSTRAND

Cinematographer: Sine Vadstrup BROOKER

Editor: Anders SKOV

Producer: Nima YOUSEFI

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