Life Overtakes Me
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39mins
Directed by
Kristine Samuelson,
John Haptas,
Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff,
Bonni Cohen
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Starring
Henry Ascher,
Nadja Hatem,
Mikael Billing,
Karl Sallin
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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.
