For six years, director Eva Mulvad and her film team followed an Iranian family's struggle to be just one family. The result was the documentary film Love Child, which now rolls during the Tempo documentary festival in Stockholm.

A bureaucratic limbo

In the film, Leila, Sahand and their forbidden love child Mani are forced to flee from their home country of Iran to be together.

- They have had a secret love affair, which is forbidden in Iran. You can be stoned, ”says Eva Mulvad.

But the dream of the "free world" turns out to be just a dream. The family gets stuck in a bureaucratic limbo in Turkey and can't move on.

- The UN is proving to be a super-complicated, faceless bureaucracy and they do not know what rights they have. The "good" and "free" that they travel to also prove to be difficult for them, says Eva Mulvad.

Eva Mulvad describes the documentary as a human film with political relevance. According to Eva Mulvad, the film is as much about the complexity of the refugee situation as it is about the inability or unwillingness to handle it.

"A huge dilemma"

- Now we are there again, that European politicians cannot take a common grip on the problem. We close the border and pay Turkey to keep a group of refugees there, says Eva Mulvad and continues:

- It is a huge dilemma for Europe. On the one hand, we are humanists and could handle the refugee stream if we shared the burden. On the other hand, we are afraid that our welfare society will be overthrown as a result of people who want to live here.