‘Charter - Amanda Kernell’

Alice hasn’t seen her two children in months. After a recent and difficult divorce, her ex-husband keeps them from seeing her, awaiting the final custody verdict in Northern Sweden. When her son calls her in the middle of the night weeping helplessly, Alice takes action. She travels on the night train to the North and in a last desperate attempt to win them over, she abducts the children and ventures on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands. 
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Amanda Kernell was born in 1986 in Umeå in Northern Sweden from a Sami father and a Swedish mother. She was trained as a film director at The National Film School of Denmark. Since 2006, she has made several award-winning short films as a writer/director such as Northern Great Mountain, which had its world premiere at Sundance 2015 and was nominated for the Swedish Academy Award “Guldbaggen”. Her feature film Sami Blood (2016) premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2016 and won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film. Charter is Amanda's second feature film.