Drifters

Minna, a drug addict who makes a living dealing drugs, can't pay rent and after cheating some delinquents she runs with the money. She meets Katja and they move together to an illegal residence outside the city, where a group of people have decided to join and live by their own rules.

Drifters is the first feature film by director and writer Peter Grönlund. He used to be a social worker and knows the themes of this film intimately. 90 percent of the people on screen are non-professional actors, but rather have personal experience with drug use and criminality, or they are social workers and police officers.

Grönlund wanted to make a film about two women who must navigate in a criminal world, in the shadow of the safe middleclass life. It was to be an action film that also gave voice to the outcasts of our society. Even though this particular environment is depicted as realistic and brutal, the film still finds room for great warmth and humanity.