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Life Overtakes Me

  • January 2019
  • 39mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Kristine Samuelson,

    John Haptas,

    Bonni Cohen,

    Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff

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    Starring

    Henry Ascher,

    Nadja Hatem,

    Mikael Billing,

    Karl Sallin

    ...

    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.