Life Overtakes Me (2019)

Life Overtakes Me
39 minutes EN Documentary
Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
Kristine Samuelson
Sound
John Haptas
Editor
Peter Östlund
Drone Cinematographer
Pete Horner
Sound Designer

Cast

Henry Ascher
Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University o
Nadja Hatem
Herself - Immigration Attorney
Mikael Billing
Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP As
Karl Sallin
Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics
Elizabeth Hultcrantz
Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University
Gellert Tamas
Himself - Author and Journalist
Anne-Liis von Knorring
Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, U

Crew

John Haptas
Editor
Peter Östlund
Drone Cinematographer
Pete Horner
Sound Designer
Joel Raabe
Sound Editor
Bonni Cohen
Executive Producer
Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff
Executive Producer
Ariane Wu
Executive Producer