I Was A Stranger

Suitable for persons over 16 years Contains violence May cause anxiety
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Premiere: 17.04.2026
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Language: Original
Subtitles: Finnish and Swedish
Drama

When a Syrian doctor is forced to flee Aleppo with her young daughter, one desperate choice sets off a chain of events that ripples across borders and pulls four strangers into the same storm A smuggler trying to save his son. A soldier wrestling with his conscience. A poet searching for home. A Greek coast guard captain caught between duty and mercy. Their paths collide on a night in the Mediterranean, where survival is uncertain, and humanity is revealed in its rawest form.

Distributor: SF Film Finland
Director: Brandt Andersen
Cast: Yasmine Al Massri, Yahya Mahayni, Omar Sy, Ziad Bakri, Constantine Markoulakis
Screenwriter: Brandt Andersen