The Producers

Frida Barkfors was born in Sweden in 1983. She has a degree in Film Directing at the National Film School of Denmark (2005-2009). Her first feature documentary, Pevert Park, 2014, together with Lasse Barkfors, won a Special Jury Prize for Impact at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and has been screened at over 30 festivals around the world. Her and Lasse Barkfors’ second feature documentary Death of a Child premieres in competition at Göteborg Film Festival in February 2017. Frida is currently working on her first fiction feature as well as the third documentary in the Barkfors’ trilogy on social stigma.

Lasse Barkfors was born in Denmark in 1980. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2007-2012). His first feature length film was Pevert Park, 2014, directed together with Frida Barkfors. His and Frida Barkfors’ second feature documentary Death of a Child premieres in competition at Göteborg Film Festival in February 2017. He has directed several short films, fiction and experimental. He is currently working on the third documentary in the Barkfors’ trilogy on social stigma, and is in post-production with his first feature fiction, which he has written, directed, filmed and edited.

Making The Film

Becoming parents a few years ago, we know what protective instincts and fears it awakens to have a child. We understand why judgment is passed on the parents that forget their own children in the car – because its every parent’s worst nightmare. But as filmmakers, we see it as our finest job to challenge this and depict society just as complex and difficult as it is. We strive to avoid any kind of sensationalism, focusing on making a humane portrait, to create understanding instead of judgment.