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No More Flowers

PARADISE IS BURNING
PARADISET BRINNER

• Director: Mika Gustafson
• SWEDEN, ITALY, DENMARK, FINLAND / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 105’ / Swedish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Mika Gustafson, Alexander Öhrstrand
• Director of Photography: Sine Vadstrup Brooker
• Editing: Anders Skov
• Music: Giorgio Giampà
• Cast: Bianca Delbravo, Dilvin Asaad, Safira Mossberg, Ida Engvoll, Mitja Siren, Marta Oldenburg, Andrea Edwards
• Producer: Nima Yousefi, Marco Valerio Fusco, Micaela Fusco, Maria Stevnbak Westergren, Venla Hellstedt, Jenni Jauri
• Production Co.: Hobab, Intramovies,ToolBox Film, Tuffi Films
• World Sales: Intramovies

2023 Venice Best Director–Horizons, Best Director–Auteurs under 40
2023 London Best First Feature
2024 Guldbagge (Sweden) Best Film, Best Set Design
2023 Lübeck Nordic Youth Jury Prize

In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), 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. Director Gustafson describes this emotional coming-of-age drama replete with sweetness, compassion, and summery flavours as ’a declaration of love to sisterhood. To those who know your story and made you who you are. A bond that’s stronger than everything else. A blessing and a curse all at the same time.’ Paradise is Burning premiered in the Orizzonti section at the 80th Venice International Film Festival

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.