Romanian beggar Florin and Swedish single mother Josefin fall in love after meeting outside the local grocery store. After eight months together, they marry and start a new life together in a small Swedish town. Florin studies Swedish and looks for work, but as the pressure from his family to send home money mounts, the dream of a better life is put to the test.
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Production Facts
Directors: Ellen Fiske, Joanna Karlberg
Producer: Anna Weitz
Cinematographer: Ellinor Hallin
Editor: Erika Gonzales, Kristin Grundström, Karolina Bengtsson
Sound design: Claes Lundberg
Original Music composed by: Katharina Nuttall, Linus Andersson
Swedish distribution: Folkets Bio
National theatrical release: September 20, 2019
Sales Agent: SVT Sales
Festival Distribution: The Swedish Film Intitute, sara.ruster@filminstitutet.se
Financiers and co-producers: The Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning, NFTF, SVT, Film i Halland, Filmbasen/Film Stockholm, Film i Uppland, Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, YLE, NRK.
Awards
PRIX EUROPA 2020 TV IRIS Best European TV Programme of the Year about Cultural Diversity
Guldbagge (Swedish academy award) for best editing 2020
Best Film in the Romanian Competition at Astra filmfestival 2020
Selected for Nordisk Forum Pitch 2017
Selected for Twelve for the Future 2017/2018
Winner Tempo Pitch Award 2016
Press coverage
"Josefin & Florin - Kris efter bröllopet - räcker kärleken?" / SVD 20190919
"Josefon & Florin - en udda kärlekshistoria" / DN 20190919
"Josefin & Florin. Fin men vag kärlekshistoria" / AB 20190918
"Filmrecension: Patos för de utsatta i Josefin & Florin" SVT 20190920
"Kärlek över gränserna i svenska dokumentären 'Josefin & Florin'" / SR 20190920
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