The New Country

2000Directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

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Released: November 24, 2000
Runtime: 2h 8m

About The New Country

Drama
Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Director: Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
Writers: Peter Birro
Lukas Moodysson
Original title: Det nya landet

Principal cast

In billing order

Mike AlmayehuAli
Michalis KoutsogiannakisMassoud
Lia BoysenLouise
Lars VäringerKjell
Nicholas RiesbeckMackan
Evert LindkvistThe Old Man

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