Oscar nominated short documentary accused of being a hoax

The short documentary Life Overtakes Me is accused of being based on a hoax, it was reported in Swedish media yesterday. It is also nominated for an Oscar this year.Can't find any articles in english. The wikipedia article has sources in swedish.According to an investigation by the Swedish magazine Filter, the documentary is in fact based on a hoax. According to witnesses cited by Filter, the main character in the film, a small child, had been pressured by her parents to simulate the resignation syndrome for the express purpose of improving the family's prospects for permanent residence status in Sweden. The witnesses insisted that the girl had in fact been a well-functioning, normal child, who was coached into faking her illness when doctors and officials were present.[6]After Filter's report, Sweden's public television network, SVT, launched its own investigation into the case. The witnesses repeated what they had told Filter about the case being a hoax. SVT also cited Swedish pediatrician Karl Sallin as saying that the filmmakers had cherry-picked phrases from interviews with him in a "reckless and dangerous" fashion, distorting his view of the situation.[7]https://ift.tt/394Kw5Q magazine Filter is known for thorough investigative journalism, so the accusation holds some weight.FILM SYNOPSISHundreds of refugee children in Sweden who have fled with their families from extreme trauma in their home countries have become afflicted with Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months or even years.https://ift.tt/2S1Rpis anyone seen the documentary? What were your thoughts on it?How should the Academy respond to this? via /r/movies https://ift.tt/381O0WI