2022 | Sweden, Finland, Belgium | Fiction

Maya Nilo (Laura)

  • Swedish, English, French, Portuguese, Farsi - 102 mins
  • Director | Lovisa Sirén
  • Writer | Peter Modestij, Lovisa Sirén
  • Producer | Siri Hjorton Wagner, Julia Gebauer, Beata Saboova, Elli Toivoniemi

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Lovisa Sirén makes her feature film debut with a delightfully messy road movie where two sisters and a teenager daughter fight their way from Stockholm through Europe to Portugal.
Nilo (Bahar Pars) is a feminist writer, living an orderly life with her husband and 13-year-old daughter Laura (Nadja Rosenberg). When her irresponsible sister Maya (Zhala), whose projects constantly tend to bomb, both “kidnaps” Nilo’s Volvo and daughter and heads south, Nilo tags along. The goal of the trip is Portugal, where the sisters’ complicated mother (Susan Taslimi) recently diagnosed with cancer lives, together with Maya’s son, who it has finally become time to take responsibility for. Lovisa Sirén offers a trip where uncomfortable truths mix with laughter and tears in a film that explores female relationships and breaks the boundary for what a woman can be and do.

Journey Road Movie Sisterhood Women Youth Teenagers fiction Europe Portugal writer trip film