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STRANGE HEAVEN

by Dariusz Gajewski

synopsis

Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family?

international title: Strange Heaven
original title: Obce niebo
country: Poland, Sweden
year: 2015
genre: fiction
directed by: Dariusz Gajewski
release date: PL 16/10/2015
screenplay: Dariusz Gajewski, Michał Godzic
cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Bartlomiej Topa, Barbara Kubiak, Ewa Fröling, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Tanja Lorentzon, Per Morberg
cinematography by: Monika Lenczewska
film editing: Grażyna Gradoń
art director: Joanna Macha
costumes designer: Beata Nyczaj
music: Paweł Mykietyn
producer: Dariusz Gajewski, Kuba Kosma
co-producer: Dariusz Gąsiorowski, Robert Kijak, Anna Waśniewska-Gill
production: Takfilm, Agora S.A., TVN
backing: Polish Film Institute
distributor: Next Film

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