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201599 minPG-13documentary

7.0/ 10(3 ratings)• TMDB

Förvaret

201599 minPG-13documentary

7.0/ 10(3 ratings)• TMDB

The film presents life inside a Swedish Migration Board facility, focusing on detainees awaiting deportation and their interactions with staff.

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Shaon Chakraborty

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The film presents life inside a Swedish Migration Board facility, focusing on detainees awaiting deportation and their interactions with staff.

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Anna Perssondirector

Shaon Chakraborty

Shaon Chakrabortydirector

Anna Perssonwriter

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A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard are in close proximity around the clock. Converses during sleepless nights and playing football during hot summer days. We follow Sophie, 29, who loves her job at the repository, Sami, 20, the young rebel who is locked up but free inside, and Aina, 47, who were separated from her children and kept locked up while the police are stepping up efforts to enforce their expulsion order.

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