Three sisters aged 7 to 16, live alone after their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time. 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.
Paradise Is Burning
Three sisters do everything they can to stay together when their mother leaves them
Facts
- Nation
- Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland
- Language
- Swedish
- Subtitle
- English
- Censorship
- 15+
- School
- High school
- Original title
- Paradiset brinner
- Director
- Mika Gustafsson
- Year
- 2023
- Category
- Feature film
- Duration
- 1t 48m
- Genre
- Drama
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