“We’re sort of a low expectations family”
Walking with guests at the Filem’On festival, I hear them talking about the teenage boy who walks with us. How charming and thoughtful he is, and so nice to his mother. None of them recognise in him the little boy who, in the Norwegian documentary TODD & SUPER-STELLA, directed by his mother Mari Monrad Vistven, is so unutterably happy because he is going to get a cat. The film follows Todd and his sister Stella for five years. Stella hates things she can’t do. It doesn’t help that big brother Todd can do everything. Todd runs the slowest of the boys in his class, so he loves winning against Stella.