Ada Kukkonen

Bir babanın bir sürü oğlu olabilir ama bir oğulun tek babası vardır. Mika Kaurismäki´nin en başarılı filmi ya da Kaurismäki filmlerinin şimdilik en başarılısı, birbirinden uzak düşen baba ile oğulun izini süren, hem dokunaklı hem de komedi unsurları barındıran bir yol filmi. Savurgan baba, 35 yıl önce terk ettiği oğlunu görmek için döner ve baba-oğul, Finlandiya´yı Helsinki´den kuzeye Lapland´a, çalıntı bir arabayla katederken birbirini tanıma fırsatı bulur. Ülkenin önde gelen film ve müzik ikonlarından Vesa-Matti Loiri ve Samuli Edelmann´ın rol aldığı film, hayat gibi kestirilemez bir aile hikâyesi.

The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.

Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.

Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her to take a leap, shake the rules and leave princess dreams behind. These two will have fun together, but not only good times

A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.