Pirate Game

Rights sold: Russian

Seven-year-old Sten-Erik moves with his parents from a panel house to a wooden one that once belonged to his grandfather, situated in a different neighborhood. Living in the same house is six-year-old Maria, who is being raised by her grandfather. The children become friends, and while playing together, discover their exciting attic, a chest filled with old things, a puppy abandoned by the river bank, and much more.

Together, they build a pirate ship out of the chest, and so begins a great and harrowing adventure, from which solutions that are happy for adults as well branch off.

According to the author, Pirate Game is a story about a close friendship, which isn't really encountered so often any more in today's profit-earning world.

Short film: Pirate Game, 2012