Sonya Lindfors

Mimmi, Emma et Rönkkö, trois jeunes femmes, partent à la recherche de l'amour et de la connaissance du plaisir.

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.

Teenage girls take their shirts off at their own party but get an audience. Emmi says no but does it really mean no? Sonja is tired of her body being a problem to others. Why has nearly every woman such experiences? One-Off Incident short films are part of a film sensation made by fifteen filmmakers, artists, researchers and social activists collectively. The films reveal the hidden way power is exercised on women in both private life and in society. The films are fiction but the stories come from the writers’ own real-life observations.

Shame related to the body grows and finally falls off on the dance floor.

Shame related to the body grows and finally falls off on the dance floor.

Nymphe depuis seulement quelques heures, Didi va découvrir un monde insoupçonné qui va faire basculer sa vie. Chaque soir de pleine lune, cette apprentie nymphe devra donner la mort à son nouvel amant pour sauver sa vie. Didi vivra son initiation auprès de ses comparses Cathy et Nadia. Ensembles, elles combattront les satyres, éternels détracteurs des Nymphes, qui les pourchassent depuis la nuit des temps...