Skörheten

Likable filmmaker Ahang lives in Stockholm, seemingly not lacking anything in life. But as she nears 30 this spoiled youngest child starts experiencing inexplicable anxiety and panic attacks. Using this film as personal therapy, she tracks the causes of her mental illness, going back to early childhood when her family fled to Sweden from their native Iran. With admirable honesty, Ahang confides in her friends and in her sisters, who apparently managed the challenges of integration without any major effects. Personal and group therapy slowly reveals the multitude of minor societal pressures that immigrants continue to deal with, both consciously and unconsciously. (One World)