The Gullspång Miracle

May, a pious older woman from northern Norway, is visiting her sister Kari in Gullspång, Sweden. May is injured on an amusement park ride, and chooses to take an extended stay in Gullspång to convalesce. May decides to rent an apartment and begins touring available units. In one, she observes three paintings of fruit hanging in the kitchen, a decorative feature she had envisioned herself. May interprets this as a divine sign and chooses to rent the apartment. May and Kari are shocked when they meet the realtor, Olaug, who bears a striking resemblance to their elder sister Astrid "Lita", who committed suicide in 1988 after being involved in an embezzlement scheme. May and Kari are further surprised when they learn that Olaug shares the same birthday as Lita – 9 February 1941 – and also went by the same nickname in her youth.

After questioning family members, May and Kari are told that Lita was in fact a twin who was separated from her sister at birth out of fear that the Nazis, who were occupying Norway during World War II, might steal them to be used in medical experiments. Olaug learns through a DNA test that she is apparently the sisters' half-sibling, and travels to meet her half-brother Jan and his family at their ancestral farm. Olaug, an intellectual who once held high rank in the Swedish Armed Forces, soon finds herself at odds with her newfound family members who are deeply religious, and outspokenly regards them as unsophisticated.

May and Kari learn through local police and medical records that Lita apparently died of heart failure on a lakeside in the country, and did not commit suicide there as they had been told. This news relieves them both due to their Christian views on suicide. Discord begins to erupt between May, Kari, and Olaug, which is exacerbated when Olaug suggests that she believes, based on the police reports and her own military expertise, that Lita was murdered. Feeling a deep disconnect toward the family, Olaug suggests that the three, along with Lita's daughter Trine, undergo a second DNA test. The results disprove the previous test, showing that Olaug is not a blood relative of May or Kari, and that the likelihood of her being Trine's biological aunt is 0.02%. The documentary's director, Maria, vocalizes her confusion and distrust of the three women's conflicting claims.

The revelation of the second DNA test upsets May and Kari, who have come to agree that Lita may have actually been a murder victim based on conflicting eyewitness reports, an ominous conversation she had with Kari shortly before her death, and the fact that Lita had taken out three life insurance policies shortly before she died—one of which was issued through the employer of her partner Steiner, from whom she had recently separated. Trine continues to believe that Olaug is in fact her aunt, while May and Kari suspect that Olaug tampered with her blood test in order to cut ties with the family.

The film concludes with May finally deciding to vacate the apartment she leased in Gullspång. She and Kari ponder the paintings of the fruit in the kitchen before removing them both.

The Gullspång Miracle premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on 11 June 2023.^[7][8] It was also screened at the Sheffield DocFest in England,^[2] as well as the Palm Springs International Film Festival,^[9] Tromsø International Film Festival,^[10] and Visions du Réel.^[11] It was released theatrically in Sweden on 27 October 2023.^[6]

Film Movement released the film digitally on 2 May 2025.^[12] In August 2025, Film Movement released a limited edition Blu-ray of the film in North America, made available through Vinegar Syndrome's online web store.^[13]