“We wanted to make an entertaining and funny film about a heavy topic”: Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson on The Last Journey

The Last Journey is a charming and emotionally charged story about the changing relationship between a Swedish father and his son as they embark on a road trip to rekindle childhood memories.

Filip Hammar watches his father (Lara Hammar) decline after entering retirement from his prolific years as a beloved school teacher. With the hope of reigniting his father’s joie de vivre, he brings along his best friend (Fredrik Wikingsson) and they take him on a well-trodden journey abroad to their old holiday haunts in France travelling precariously in old orange Renault 4 with the hope of bringing his father back from the brink of despair.

Beautiful cinematography pairs with the desperation of family connection and The Upcoming had the pleasure of speaking to both Hammar and Wikingsson about making this docufilm and what it meant to them.

Ezelle Alblas

The Last Journey is released nationwide on 21^st March 2025.

Watch the trailer for The Last Journey here: