I Become More With You

Childhood friends MyNa and Farah form the artist duo Mahoyo and work together as DJs, stylists, costume designers, photographers, and filmmakers.

MyNa was born in Sweden to a Vietnamese-Chinese family. Farah was born in Somalia, grew up partly in Kenya, and came to Sweden as an unaccompanied minor. MyNa is queer and Farah is Muslim. They grew up together in Oskarshamn, a small town where their identities often made them stand out, and their friendship became a safe haven in an environment that could otherwise feel isolating.

As nearly the only non-white children in school, they found each other through their rich and intertwined cultural backgrounds. That connection laid the foundation for Mahoyo, the platform where they explore identity, resistance, and the complexity of belonging in a deeply segregated Sweden.

In the film, we follow MyNa and Farah’s journey as they meet artists in Vietnam and Kenya and trace the creative legacies that have shaped their own work. Against the backdrop of a growing far-right movement in Sweden, we also see a new generation of young Swedes using art and activism to create change.

MyNa Do and Farah Yusuf will take part and talk with the audience after the screening.