Finnish Pearls
Memory of Tomorrow
Director: Pekka Saari, 28 min.
Aleksi (Heikki Nousiainen) loves two things, his wife Saila and his camera. After Saila suddenly dies, Aleksi seeks comfort from a medical experiment that extends his life beyond normal boundaries.
How to Pick Berries
Director: Elina Talvensaari, 19 min.
Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. As harmless as they are, their foreign presence unwittingly disrupts the pace of local habits. They have come to look for berries, an activity that all of a sudden seems to embody all the values of local culture. Who is to blame and where do the profits end up? How to Pick Berries is an exploration of Finnish mind and the absurdities of global economy.
Dragon Beach
Director: Aada Sigurlina Niilola, 18 min.
Would you change your way of life because of a dream? A burmese shaman tells the story of how she got the sixth sense.
The Death of an Insect
Directors: Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen, 7 min.
Visually beautiful short film plays like an insect’s personal vision of its own life. The mating dance feels like ballet but death lurks around the corner. The visuals are a combination of traditional animation techniques and computer imagery.
The Finn
Directors: Eric Hynynen & Saija Holm, 1 min.
A fuzzy head drinker falls on snow. His dog tries to wake him up. Eric Hynynen and Saija Holm summarize the essence of Finland in less than one minute.
Black Horse
Director: Malakias, 7 min.
Original and slightly macabre animation about the human vs. nature relationship. The head of a shot chicken causes all kinds of trouble.
Duration: 90 min
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
