Wanted to be friends


A film by Marika Heidebäck

“We played hide and seek, but they only looked for the others. Not me. They found all them others. ‘cept for me.” What’s it like when you want to join in the games and think that the others don’t want to be friends with you. What’s it like to home alone through the center of town where the big kids hang. The children we meet are between six and nine years old and all attend the same recreation center. They all try find their place and way of belonging in the group.



Production facts:

Director: Marika Heidebäck
Producer: Jenny Örnborn
Productions assistants:
Mia Engberg och Göran Olsson

Supported by: SVT Documentary/Ulla Nilsson, The Swedish Film Institute/Hjalmar Palmgren

Other films

Suburban Songs
A film by Mia Engberg
Fonko
A film by Lamin Daniel Jadama, Göran Olsson & Lars Lovén
That Summer
A film by Göran Hugo Olsson
Belleville Baby
A film by Mia Engberg
Selma & Sofie
A film by Mia Engberg
A fragment of a life in four scenes
A film by David Aronowitsch
Parkside Girls
A film by Mia Engberg
LOVE YOU BYE
A film by Annika Fredriksson
Israel-Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989
Written and directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much
A film by Göran Hugo Olsson
The Wave
A short film by Hanna Heilborn