WANJA

By Carolina HELLSGÅRD

GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL - as DISTR VOD, SWEDEN

Drama - Completed 2015

The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence, she gets to know the young stable girl Emma, and for a while it looks like Wanja will make it in the free world.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2015
Perspektive deutsches Kino, nominated for the Berlinale Best First Feature Award
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    • Writer(s)
    • Carolina HELLSGÅRD
    • Producer(s)
    • Johanna AUST (Flickfilm GbR)
    • Synopsis
    • The former bank robber Wanja is released from a long prison sentence. As her feelings of loneliness escalate, Wanja sets out to find work and hereby a new identity. Against all odds she lands an internship at a horse race track. In the stable she gets to know the troubled teenager Emma, and a strong friendship develops between the two women. When Emma slips deeper into her own drug abuse, Wanja decides to rescue her.