Screening times:
Thursday, Feb 27, 6:30 PM
Saturday, March 1, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening

Maria Fredriksson | Sweden, Norway, Denmark | 2023 | 108m
Swedish, English, Norwegian, with English subtitles

A seemingly divine premonition leads Norwegian sisters Kari and May to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks surprisingly similar to their older sister Astrid, who committed suicide thirty years earlier. What’s even more odd is that this doppelgänger used to go by “Lita,” the same nickname as their deceased sister.

Could she be related? Initial investigations suggest yes, but as the film goes on what began as an eerie story of destiny, faith, true crime, and improbable coincidence soon becomes a Pandora’s Box of stranger-than-fiction revelations and awkwardly comical mishaps, with personality conflicts and debates around faith versus secularism sending the characters spiraling in different directions.

"For the film's contributors, the desire to define their own truths becomes more important than knowing what is really true," says director Maria Fredriksson. "I want this story to be a reminder of the strangeness of life and the magic in existence."

"By constantly shifting gears and genre, this becomes a documentary that is about storytelling itself. It's documentary filmmaking as a highwire tightrope walking act. One of the year's great documentaries." - Theodoor Steen, ScreenAnarchy

"One of the twistiest documentaries this side of 'Three Identical Strangers', although that’s where the comparison ends." - Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

"An astounding and cleverly structured exploration of serendipity, faith, social divisions, family ties and personal identity." - Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

Winner: Best Editing, Documentary Feature - Tribeca Film Festival 2023
Winner: Best Documentary - Guldbagge Awards 2024

Saturday is a half-capacity screening