American Vagabond

American Vagabond is a 2013 Finnish documentary film directed by Susanna Helke.

The film won the Q Hugo Jury Special Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, where it also had its North American Premier. It also won the best Documentary Film Jury Award at the Rochester ImageOut Festival. The film was nominated for the Best Nordic Documentary Film Award at the Nordisk Panorama Festival 2013 and was selected into the Masters section of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA 2013. The film was screened at the 2013 Visions du Rel festival, the DOKLeipzig International Documentary Film Festival 2013, Montreal International Documentary Festival, RIDM 2013, and many other festivals.Farihah Zaman praised the film as a standout at the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival in her review in Filmmaker Magazine In Vagabond, her main subject becomes a collaborator in telling the story of his life, having crafted it over time in a series of emails with Helke. Helke also shifts perspective from one of the runaways to his mother at a crucial point, an act of compassion that breaks down the notion of easy blame or villainy as the boys are failed by one system after another. At this Canadian festival, a Finnish filmmaker shattered the illusion of the American dream. ........

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