NHK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL + Sundance Institute/NHK Award
2012
 "Close Far Away" |
Close Far Away
Sweden
[SYNOPSIS]
Close Far Away is a compelling contemporary drama thriller, set in Africa and Europe.
Five interlocking stories converge at the end and reveal a complex and unique story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly are not all that different.
In Somalia, a Red Cross doctor has just lost his colleague and while struggling with his grief he decides to go on one last mission. In Chechnya, a young soldier is forced to take a fatal decision that will come to change his life forever. In former Yugoslavia, a young photographer tries to make a breakthrough in media, and pushes her moral limits. In England, a former mercenary plans the coup of his life while an officer at the immigration service has the life of other in her hands.
Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.
Close Far Away is a compelling contemporary drama thriller, set in Africa and Europe.
Five interlocking stories converge at the end and reveal a complex and unique story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly are not all that different.
In Somalia, a Red Cross doctor has just lost his colleague and while struggling with his grief he decides to go on one last mission. In Chechnya, a young soldier is forced to take a fatal decision that will come to change his life forever. In former Yugoslavia, a young photographer tries to make a breakthrough in media, and pushes her moral limits. In England, a former mercenary plans the coup of his life while an officer at the immigration service has the life of other in her hands.
Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.
[DIRECTOR]
Jens Assur
Born in 1970 in Östersund, Sweden, after working for Swedish daily newspapers and LIFE Magazine as photographer, Jens Assur produced photographic projects for Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Umea University, and other organizations. While working as freelance photographer for leading Scandinavian and international advertising companies, newspapers and magazines, Jens wrote and directed a short film Den Sista Hunden i Rwanda (The Last Dog in Rwanda) which received numerous film awards from all over the world. His second short Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2011 Director's Fortnight.
Close Far Away is Jens Assur's first feature film project.
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