Almost Forever follows Jasmine, Philip, and their friends through five formative years as they navigate friendship, love, and identity across Stockholm. Jasmine, cool but sensitive, longs for her distant father and tries to balance her time between friends and boyfriends whilst Philip, warm and funny, stands out as religious in secular Sweden and is trying to find a way to not be
friend-zoned. Their close-knit crew roams the city—skating, talking, filming themselves—until adolescence brings new tensions. Rumors, shifting loyalties, first heartbreaks, and questions of consentand cancel culture begin to test them. As high school approaches, both face the chance to redefine who they want to be. The film captures the tenderness and turbulence of growing up,
portraying a generation shaping itself amid change.
GENRE: Documentary film, + doc. series
LENGTH / KESTO: 86 min (film), 8 x 10 min (series)
DIRECTED BY / OHJAAJAT: Lia Hietala & Hannah Reinikainen
WRITTEN BY/ KÄSIKIRJOITUS: Lia Hietala & Hannah Reinikainen
PRODUCED BY / TUOTTAJA: Melissa Lindgren ,Story.
CO-PRODUCERS / YHTEISTUOTTAJAT: Marianne Mäkelä, napafilms
SALES AGENT / MYYNTI AGENTTI: VISIONÄR FILMS (the film version)
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY / KUVAAJA: Lia Hietala
EDITING BY / LEIKKAAJA: Neil Wigardt, Antti Reikko & MikkoSippola
MUSIC / MUSIIKKI: Lokalfrågan – Em Silén &Nora Pollak
SOUND DESIGN / ÄÄNISUUNNITTELU: Tove Nowén, Emil Soininen
