The Days I Will Forget
Genre: Documentary
Length: 100 min / 59 min
Year of Production: 2026
Writer-Director: Morgane Dziurla-Petit
Producer: Paul Blomgren / GötaFilm (SWE)
Co-producer: Merja Ritola / Greenlit Productions (FI)
Integral FIlm (NO)
Photographers: Filip Lyman, Anders Hoft
Editors: Patrik Forsell, Menni Renvall, Jussi Rautaniemi
Funded by:
Swedish Film Institute (SFI), Konstnärsnämnden, Film i Väst, Film Stockholm, Film i Halland, Göteborg Stad Kultur, Finnish Film Foundation (SES), AVEK, Norwegian Film Institute (NFI)
In collaboration with:
SVT, YLE, VGTV, Good Partner Media Group, Storyline Studios AS
Awards:
- Tempo Pitch 2024 – Winner (Tempo Documentary Festival)
Festivals / markets:
- Doc Forward 2025 – Nordisk Panorama
- SFI’s Wildcard – Nordisk Panorama 2025
Synopsis
When Morgane is casting her next film, her estranged father calls with a declaration that sounds impossible: after a lifetime of alcoholism, he says he is sober — and he wants to become a film director. Morgane gives him one week to prove it, documenting his attempt to shoot a short film on a remote Swedish island. The shoot collapses into chaos, leaving him devastated.
A year later, unable to let go — and keeping her own cancer diagnosis secret — Morgane returns to the island with an audacious documentary experiment: she reconstructs the disastrous day down to the smallest detail and forces it to repeat like a time loop. As everyone resets and every moment replays, the film reveals addiction and recovery as repetition: hope, exhaustion, relapse, and the daily choice to begin again. But the longer Morgane controls the loop, the more the question shifts: is she trying to change him — or to escape what comes after forgiveness?
