Paradise Is Burning

Oct 27, 2023

1h 48m

★ 5.6

Overview

Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Tuffi Films

HOBAB

Intramovies

Toolbox Film

Paradise Is Burning Trailers

Cast

Laura

Bianca Delbravo

Mira

Dilvin Asaad

Steffi

Safira Mossberg

Hanna

Ida Engvoll

Sasha

Mitja Sirén

Zara

Marta Oldenburg

Andrea Edwards

Isabella Kjellberg

Hanna's Husband

Alexander Öhrstrand

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