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Movie profile

The New Country

6.5/ 1020002h 8m

DramaComedy

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

Directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Mike Almayehu

Ali

Michalis Koutsogiannakis

Michalis Koutsogiannakis

Massoud

Lia Boysen

Lia Boysen

Louise

Lars Väringer

Lars Väringer

Kjell

Nicholas Riesbeck

Mackan

Evert Lindkvist

The Old Man

Inga Ålenius

Inga Ålenius

The Old Lady

Jan Åström

Jan Åström

Big Bert