Love Child

Love Child follows Leila, Sahand and their son Mani for several years while fleeing Iran to live together as a family in a free country. Back in Iran, both Leila and Sahand are married under difficult conditions. As a consequence, their love relationship can be punished to death, since divorce is not possible and adultery illegal. In order to give Mani the opportunity to grow up in a harmonious home with both his biological parents, Leila and Sahand invest everything as they head for Turkey to apply the UNHCR to be resettled in a third, safe country.

Love Child is an intimate documentary full of hope, despair and love. Director Eva Mulvad gives a unique insight into the family's ups and downs as a result of the long wait the UN bureaucracy requires, and she dares to show the difficult psychological and social consequences everyone in the family is experiencing as a result of having to live in a state of permanent uncertainty.

Director’s bio:

Eva Mulvad (b. 1972) is an award-winning Danish documentarist. Mulvad had her international breakthrough in 2006 with Enemies of Happiness, about the female politician Malalai Joya and her preparations ahead of Afghanistan’s first democratic election in 2005. The film won several awards, including the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.

Masterclass:

On Friday, August 28, Eva Mulvad will hold a digital masterclass where she will present her work as a documentarist. The masteclass is aimed at the Norwegian film industry, and will be held in Danish/ Norwegian. More information about the masterclass (in Norwegian) here.

N.B. Eva Mulvad’s visit to Oslo is cancelled, due to travel restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic.