Merry Christmas - FORMAT
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Synopsis
One day, one apartment building, six stories. Happy Christmas is a different kind of Christmas story.

Christmas is a time for presents, for joy and togetherness. At the same time, it is a time where the big contrasts in our lives become evident.

On Christmas Eve 2013, we followed six different families and people living in the same apartment building in Oslo, Norway. One is a widow going through her first Christmas without her husband through sixty years. One is a fourteen-year old boy, somewhere between childhood and adulthood, celebrating Christmas with his divorced parents. One is a Pakistani immigrant driving a taxi. One is a priest, preaching at a home for the elderly. One is a sick man, hoping to one day finally become healthy. And one is a multi-cultural family with two small children eager to open the piles of presents awaiting them.

The film challenges our modern established Christmas values: expensive gifts, perfectly prepared food and having a large family around you. It shows the diversity and contrasts in our society, on a day filled with tradition and expectation.

Duration
1 x 60'
Definition
SD
Genre
Formats
Subgenre
Lifestyle
Producer
MONSTER
Production Year
2014