Blood sisters
/ synopsis

Blood Sisters is an intimate, observational coming-of age documentary about twin-sister- hood. A film about surviving the trauma of sexual abuse together as twin sisters and how one day your other half might not be there to take for granted anymore.

DIRECTOR • MALIN ANDERSSON
CO-PRODUCER • HEGE DEHLI
LENGHT • 80 MIN. / 52MIN.

Julia and Johanna live in the ghetto-like highrise flats of Rosengard in Malmö, Sweden; one of Northern Europe’s largest immigrant estates. They have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, curled up beside eachother at night. They have followed each other through thick and thin as toddlers and then into the darkness as kidnapped young girls, young political victims of the brutal reality in Azerbaijan. Their journey once freed, takes them to a new life in Sweden. In Blood Sisters we follow their new journey, this time from girls in total symbiosis with each other into young women trying to find their own identity, while dealing with their experienes in the past, taking control over their own lives.


/ More about the film

LENGHT • 80 MIN. / 52MIN.
FORMAT • 16:9
Year of Production • 2015
DIRECTOR • MALIN ANDERSSON
CO-PRODUCER • HEGE DEHLI
Produced by • Malin Anderson film (Sweden) – Mechanix Film (Norway) Films du Tambour (France) – Final Cut for Reel (Denmark) – Solas Productions (Irland).
Production location • Sweden
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE • Swedish & French

/ TV

DR, ARTE, SVT, YLE, Irland
NRK


/ Festivals

World premiere and in Competition for Best Documentary at Hot Docs (Canada)
Nordisk Panorama, in Competition for Best Documentary (Sweden)
Tiblisi International Film Festival (Georgia)
DMZ Docs (South Korea)
Budapest International Documentary Film Festival (Hungary)
Noordelijk Film Festival (Netherlands)
GIFF Gothenburg International Film Festival (Sweden)
Festival du film de Luchon (France)
Millenium Festival (Belgum)
Golden Linden (Romania)
Volda Film Festival (Norway)
NordicDocs (Norway)


/ PRIZE

PRIX EUROPA. Special Commendation: 2nd Best European Film On Cultural Diversity.


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