A Hippie's Diary
Creative Chakra Film Festival Official Selecton 2026
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25m
A film by Mattias Olsson
As a teenager in 1970s Sweden, Eva is drawn away from a rigid school system after encountering a group of hippies at a festival near her home. Finding the sense of belonging she had been missing, she leaves Sweden on The Yes Bus, traveling east through Afghanistan to India, and later joins the Osho movement and its relocation to Rajneeshpuram in Oregon.
In the film we meet her at 70, reflecting on an education system shaped by testing and evaluation rather than creativity, and on how the hippie movement came to define her life.
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