BLOOD SISTERS
Director: MALIN ANDERSSON
Blood Sisters is a coming-of-age-documentary film of sister-symbiosis and girlhood. A film about the unconditional love between Julia and Johanna, teenage twin sisters from the highrise flats in the suburb Rosengard, Malmö, Sweden.
They have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, curled up beside eachother at night, carrying shared memories of trauma from their home country Azerbaijan.
One day, life takes over and their symbiosis has to grow into something new. We follow their journey from girls to young women trying to find their own feet through the inevitable circle of life.
For more information visit: www.bloodsisters.se
PRODUCTION FACTS
Length: 90 + 58 min
Premiere: 2015
Danish premiere: 2016 (DR)
Producer and Director: MALIN ANDERSSON
Cinematographer: KATE McCULLOUGH
Editor; MERVI JUNKKONEN, ERIK BÄFVING
Composer: REBEKKA KARIJORD
Sound Design and Sound Mixing: PETER SCHULTZ
Dialogue & Sound Effects Editing: ASSER BORGEN
Co-producers:
CORMAC Ó CUINN
SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN
SONJA LINDÉN
HEGE DEHLI
ALEXANDRE CORNU
JOAKIM STRAND
Contact
General Inquiries
maria(at)final-cut.dk
AWARDS
Prix Europa, Berlin 2016, 'Second Place and Special Commendation, IRIS category- best TV films in Europe about diversity'
FESTIVALS
BUFF 2015, Malmö Sweden, Lilla Filmfestivalen, Båstad , Sweden, 2015, Nordisk Panorama, Sweden, Nominated 'Best Nordic Documentaryfilm 2015', Umeå IFF, Sweden, 2015, Gothenburg IFF, Sweden, 2016,’The Best of Hot Docs’, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 2015, DMZ, Korea, Nominated 'Best Documentary film' 2015, Budapest Int. Documentary FF, Hungary, 2015, Tiblisi IFF, Georgia, 2015 , Noordeliik FF, The Netherlands, 2015, Nordic Docs, Fredrikstad, Norway, 2016, Den Norske Dokumentarfestivalen, Volda, Norway, 2016, Cinewest Australia, 2016, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany. Nominated 'Best Nordic Documentary 2016', Prix Europa, Berlin, Germany 2016, Festival de Luchon, France. Invited as 'honorable film 2015', Int. Documentary FF Millenium, Brussels, Belgium, 2016, The Golden Linden IFF of New European Cinema, Romania, 2016, One World Int. Human Rights FF, Bucharest, Romania, 2017
International Premiere: Hot Docs, Toronto (in competition: 'Best feature debut' and 'Best international documentary film 2015')