Life Overtakes Me
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.
Genre: Documentary
Director: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
Actors: Anne-Liis von Knorring, Elizabeth Hultcrantz, Gellert Tamas, Henry Ascher, Karl Sallin, Mikael Billing, Nadja Hatem