STILLA NATT (SILENT NIGHT)

Director: AMANDA ADOLFSSON Country: SWEDEN Year of production: 2006 Language: SWEDISH Running time: 28 MIN Producer: SANDRA HARMS Screenplay: JOSEFIN JOHANSSON Cast: LINA ENGLUND, HASSAN JAFARI, ING-MARIE CARLSSON, BJÖRN GRANATH Screening date and time: THURSDAY, 14.30
SYNOPSIS Maja works as a tour guide in Egypt. She leads a happy life until she witnesses a terrorist attack. In a state of shock she goes back to her parents in Sweden. She wants to tell them what happened, but she can’t. The encounter with her parents’ Arabic lodger Jamal forces her to deal with her feelings.
DIRECTOR PROFILE
	AMANDA ADOLFSSON (born in 1979) studied history of art and history of film, film making and film production at different schools until the autumn of 2003. From 2003 to 2006 she studied film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts (Dramatiska Institutet). Filmography: Silent Night (2006), On a Train (2005), Close To the Skin (2005), Thirst (2004), The House at St Anna’s Street (2003), The Bus Stop (2002)