Illusia Sarvas

Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina, a single mother, is fired from her job in a bakery and drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border.

Un soir, dans un stand de hot-dogs en Laponie finlandaise, une fêtarde phobique de l'engagement, Aurora, rencontre l'iranien Darian. Darian lui demande soudain de l'épouser. Darian doit épouser une Finlandaise pour obtenir un asile pour lui et sa fille. Aurora le refuse, car elle est occupée à travailler comme technicienne des ongles et envisage de déménager en Norvège, loin de sa vie de merde. Cependant, après avoir rencontré sa douce fille, Aurora accepte de l'aider. Alors qu'Aurora présente de nombreuses femmes à Darian, les deux se rapprochent. Lorsque la candidate parfaite se présente, Darian et Aurora sont confrontés à un choix difficile : faire semblant d'être heureux ou arrêter de courir.

Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.

In Dependence is a documentary film about a middle aged couple trying to balance their lives in the riptide of alcoholism and co-dependency.

In Dependence is a documentary film about a middle aged couple trying to balance their lives in the riptide of alcoholism and co-dependency.