Miss Kicki

Kicki returns to Sweden after years abroad; her seventeen year old son Viktor was raised by his grandmother and is distant from his mother. To close the gap between them Kicki proposes a holiday in Taiwan, but what she does not say is that the man she met online lives in Taipei. Over the course of the trip the mother’s pursuit of her own life and the son’s closeness to a young man he meets there run side by side, and each lives out a story the other knows nothing about. Håkon Liu’s eighty eight minute Swedish film is about how a mother and a son can be on the same journey without knowing each other. Pernilla August plays Kicki, Ludwig Palmell plays Viktor and River Huang the young man opposite him, with Eric Tsang in the cast. It was completed in 2009.