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Director's Statement
I wanted to make a film about the people I have always loved, but was sometimes ashamed to be part of. Sweden has an uneasy relationship with its self-image that has to come to terms with its status as an immigration and asylum country. I want to be part of the process of redefining Sweden’s national identity. Someone like Raša, an intense, cocky, straight-forward Muslim working class girl who doesn’t give a shit of what others think about her is an obvious challenge to the way Swedes have traditionally seen themselves. Raša’s story has a lot to do with her own identity and the way people see her, but it also plays out against the background of experiences many young people have in the on-going European economic crisis with high unemployment and increasing internal contradictions within society. But just as importantly I wanted to develop a more personal topic and show the kind of portrait of a father-daughter relationship that I never got to see on screen when I was a young girl.