Cries and Disturbs the Others

A tender portrayal of four stubborn brothers becomes a touching contemporary Swedish family chronicle about dreams, class, heritage, and the difficulty of connection. The Andersson brothers grew up in a working-class home in Gothenburg. Roy became an internationally acclaimed filmmaker while Ronny ended up as a homeless man. Kjell became a documentary filmmaker, and Leif lives as a disability pensioner.

About 19-year-old Minna, this is a funny, tender, and emotional movie about searching for love and yourself. About taking control of your life.

How can you talk about the Holocaust with your children? A mother is clearly affected by her trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau and talks with her three children about it. What questions does it awaken in them? The frankness of the children’s thoughts about war and oppression are hard to deflect.

In a taxi conversation in Tbilisi. Europe, immigration and the comparison between today's capitalism and the Soviet dictatorship are some of the subjects taken up.

A mother of three leaves the children at home to spend a month in Paris on her own. She re-reads “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir, a book she loved when she was young.