The New Country

• 6.7 Drama
• 2000-11-24
• 128 minutes mins

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

Starring:

Mike Almayehu (Ali) Michalis Koutsogiannakis (Massoud) Lia Boysen (Louise) Lars Väringer (Kjell) Nicholas Riesbeck (Mackan) Evert Lindkvist (The Old Man) Inga Ålenius (The Old Lady) Jan Åström (Big Bert) Simon Norrthon (Greger) Anette Lindbäck (Eva)

Director:

Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

Writer:

Lukas Moodysson Peter Birro