Children's Island centres on an 11-year-old boy who is. The film was also selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. A 30-year-old Swedish film has been banned in Australia for containing scenes of child nudity after an application by the federal police. In 1981 it was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival. Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. It was Kay Pollak's first commercial success and won the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor (Hirdwall) at the 17th Guldbagge Awards. With Tomas Fryk, Anita Ekstrm, Ingvar Hirdwall, Brje Ahlstedt. ![]() His mother then vacations on her own, but in fact Reine never goes to the camp, instead exploring the summer city of Stockholm on his own, meeting many strange adults. ![]() ![]() The title of the film is in reference to an island which is home to many such camps). He lives in a suburb with his single mother who sends him to a traditional Swedish summer camp (common at the time of the setting and managed by the cities for children in need of visiting the countryside. The story is set in Stockholm where 11-year-old Reine is on the verge of puberty and afraid of sexual maturity.
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