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1998 · Short Film

Real Men Eat Meat / Den som äter palsternackor

Writer · Director · Producer

A Swedish boy and a Mongolian girl, an afternoon in Ulan Bator.

Ask and Tsatsa are left to spend a day together by parents who barely know each other. They share no language. They share an afternoon.

Small events seem big. Every word, every movement is etched in memory.

Grand Prix du Court Métrage · Valenciennes, 1999

Best Short Film · Cork, 1999

Best Black-and-White Short Film · Cork, 1999

Best Short Film · Dresden, 1999

Best Short Film · Bamberg, 1999

Real Men Eat Meat — still