Hanna Högstedt

A queer film in a world where normative relationships set the rules for who can become a parent and in what way. About the bodies that normalise us to gender when we want to reproduce. About the desire to gift that opportunity to someone else and the common desire and attempt to become pregnant together.

Hanna Högstedt decides to visit The Avenue des Champs-Élysées while wearing a niqab and singing the Marseillaise in order to protest against the burqa ban but her plan backfires

When Hanna was the same age as her three-year-old child is now, she got a little sister. Due to a heart defect, the little sister’s life was cut short and she died a few weeks after birth. In a fine-tuned documentary with expressive animations, Hanna addresses her parents about the experience of losing a child.

Hanna Högstedt decides to visit The Avenue des Champs-Élysées while wearing a niqab and singing the Marseillaise in order to protest against the burqa ban but her plan backfires

Hanna Högstedt decides to visit The Avenue des Champs-Élysées while wearing a niqab and singing the Marseillaise in order to protest against the burqa ban but her plan backfires

Hanna Högstedt decides to visit The Avenue des Champs-Élysées while wearing a niqab and singing the Marseillaise in order to protest against the burqa ban but her plan backfires

Hanna Högstedt decides to visit The Avenue des Champs-Élysées while wearing a niqab and singing the Marseillaise in order to protest against the burqa ban but her plan backfires

Élisa is French, Klara is Swedish: they are almost thirty and are a couple. Maryam, a single mother, lives next door with her daughter. The three women start a love triangle in which they all feel comfortable and happy. They decide to look for a bigger house where they can live together as an extended family. At the house-warming party they invite their many colorful and cosmopolitan friends. When they wake up the next morning, after the wild night of partying, Klara has to face reality and Élisa's feelings. This film presents a ménage à trois which is set in an atmosphere full of passion and multiculturalism, where the search for one's mental and physical place becomes the conquest of something deeper.