God Willing

Black and white, 35 mm
Sweden, 2006, 80 min
IP – International premiere
Section: Another View

Synopsis

Stockholm in the summer of 1975 is sweltering under a record heat-wave. Immigrant Juan works in a market by day loading vegetables, and has a night job cleaning up in a fast food restaurant. He lives with his brother and is waiting for his wife, who is due to arrive to join him in a week. His clear, planned future is upset by a chance meeting at a bus-stop with a mysterious woman, the singer Juli. They start chatting, and later meeting and getting to know each other. Is this the start of a deep and serious relationship, or will it prove no more than a fleeting summer romance, a brief emotional blaze that a sense of duty and responsibility will soon extinguish? Fans of the Swedish band The Cardigans shouldn’t miss this film, for the singer Nina Persson plays the femme fatale Juli.

About the director

Amir Chamdin has been a musician and singer since 1991. In recent years he has been making music clips, shorts and commercials. He has also appeared as an actor in the films The Artist (2001), Jesus fran Hökarängen (2003) and the television series Lasermannen (2005). The film God Willing is his debut feature.