This Is Not Sweden (Això no és Suècia)

Origin and Year: Spain, Sweden, 2023	Director: Mar Coll, Aina Clotet, Sara Fantova, Celia Giraldo
Section: International Panorama	Runnning time: 2 x 40 min
25.09.2024 at 15.30	Screening place: Goose on the String Theatre Zelný trh 9
28.09.2024 at 18.30	Screening place: Television institute Dominikánská 11

It all starts when Mariana and Samuel, with their young daughter and baby, move from the bustling centre of Barcelona to a more remote green neighbourhood in the hills, where they have the time and space to focus more intensely on themselves and their children. They are both interested in the topic of parenting and immediately after the move they organise group therapy for parents in the neighbourhood, get involved in the local community and help out at the school their daughter visits. They try to do everything in the opposite way to their parents, especially with empathy. But soon they are unnerved by a strange mishap with their new Swedish neighbours. An energetic comedy from the vivid Spain, whose filmmakers lovingly and ironically poke fun at the lifestyle of young, financially secure parents looking for new ways to lead a family life, it brilliantly combines awkward humour with moments of honestly displayed emotions, keeping us in suspense about how this will all end.