Synopsis:

Raša Abdulahović arrived in Sweden when she was one year old, being a young immigrant propelled by the former Yugoslavia disintegration. Now she lives with her father, an already ailing worker. She almost maintains him with the wage she receives at a food industry factory she works for since she was 16 years old. The rumours of redundancies at her factory begin to take shape, and Raša, though she knows she’s valuable, is conscious that her surname marks her as an immigrant and Muslim. The heroine in Eat Sleep Die a woman of action, determined to keep what she has, just like that Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta. She doesn’t have to reveal her sense of community as it’s printed in her DNA.

Gabriela Pichler

Gabriela Pichler was born in Huddinge, Sweden, in 1980. She studied cinematography in Gothenburg. Before her debut as feature film director with Eat Sleep Die, Gabriela Pichler had shot three short films, Nångång (2004), Leda (2007) and Scratches (2008), which were respectively awarded at Munich, Karlovy Vary and Uppsala. Eat Sleep Die has been programmed at the most prestigious festivals, such as Toronto and Venice. It was in Lido where she obtained her highest honour to date, the Critic’s Week Audience Award.

FILMOGRAPHY

2012 Eat Sleep Die

2008 Skrapsår (short)