Life Overtakes Me

6.5

39m

2019

Documentary

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

Starring

Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing, Karl Sallin, Elizabeth Hultcrantz, Gellert Tamas, Anne-Liis von Knorring

Directed By

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas