Finnish Film Festival 26th-27th May 2006!
A Festival of Short Student Films And 'Lapsia Ja Aikuisia/Producing Adults',
an award-winning Finnish film from 2004. All With English Subtitles.
Location: Muddum Arts Centre
Date: May 26th-May 27th, 2006
Time: Starts 7pm both days.
Friday May 26th: Short Student films. All with Subtitles. Exclusive to Muddum! Starts 7pm.
Saturday May 27th: 'Lapsia Ja Aikuisia-Kuinka niitä tehdään? / Producing Adults'. Finland's official 2004 Oscar entry.
PROGRAMME: Friday May 16th. Short Finnish Films from graduates of the
Lahti Institute of Design: Department of Film and Television:
SYNTYMÄPÄIVÄ / BIRTHDAY / L’ANNIVERSAIRE
FIN (1994). no dialog. Animation. 3min. Beta
Director: Kari Juusonen
Script: Kari Juusonen
Photography: Jussi Eerola
Sound: Kari Juusonen
Editing: Ulla Simonen
Sets & Puppet: Kari Juusonen
Animation: Kari Juusonen
Props: Helena Lehtinen
Costume design by: Ritva Juusonen
Synopsis: Lyhyt tarina odottamisesta. Lopputyö / A short story about waiting. Graduation film.
Kari Juusonen on Vantaalainen freelancerinä toimiva animaationtekijä. Kari Juusonen is a freelancer animator from Vantaa.
MAHORKKA / RUSSIAN BLEND
FIN (1999). Language: Russian. Subtitles: English. Fiction. 19min. Beta SP
Director: Ville Jankeri
Script: Ville Jankeri
Photography: Marko Järvinen
Sound: Mika Niinimaa
Editing: Niina Nironen
Cast: Jussi Lehtonen, Antero Nieminen
Synopsis: Toinen maailmansota. Kaksi venäläistä sotilasta matkaa Suomen rintamalle. He eksyvät ja tupakat loppuvat. Lopputyö.
WW2. Two Russian soldiers travel to the Finnish front. They get lost and run out of cigarettes. Graduation film.
Previous work by Ville Jankeri: 2002 Leijonatie – 30 min dokumentti YLE TV2 / Making Movies
2002-2004 MA fiction direction - National Film and Television School, UK
MIES ETSII MIESTÄ / MAN SEEKING MAN
FIN (2004). Subtitles: English. Fiction. 12min. Beta SP / DigiBeta 16:9 anamorphic
Director: Matti Harju
Script: Matti Harju
Photography: Antti Lempiäinen
Sound: Mikko Mäkeläinen
Editing: Matti Harju, Mikko Mäkeläinen
Cast: Asko Sahlman, Jussi Lehtonen, Markus Karekallas
Music: Janina Lehto
Synopsis:
Seppo on viisikymppinen mies. Hän laittaa lehteen ilmoituksen MIES ETSII MIESTÄ- palstalle. Hän on kokematon. Kale on Sepon 25-vuotias
poika, joka päättää kahden vuosikymmenen jälkeen lähteä tapaamaan isäänsä. Hänen ajoituksensa olisi voinut olla parempi. Lopputyö.
Seppo is a 50-year-old man. He places a MEN SEEKING MEN personals ad in a newspaper. He is inexperienced. Kale is Seppo’s
25-year-old son who decides to meet his father for the first time in 20 years. His timing could have been better. Graduation film.
Matti Harju participated the BERLINALE Talent Campus in February 2005 and is currently looking forward to MA Fiction Direction
course at the renowned National Film and Television School, UK commencing in January 2006.
PIENI TARINA SYYLLISYYDESTÄ / LITTLE STORY ABOUT GUILT
FIN (2004). Subtitles: English. Fiction. 19min. DigiBeta 16:9 anamorphic
Director: Ilmari Aho
Script: Ilmari Aho, Aarno Snellman-Junna
Photography: Ville Vainio
Sound: Petrus Rapo
Editing: Liisa Vartiainen
Music: Kalevi Aho
Synopsis:
Elokuva kymmenenvuotiaasta Lotasta, joka tuntee turhaa syyllisyyttä vanhempiensa välisistä ongelmista. Lopputyö.
A film about 10-year-old Lotta who feels guilty about the marital problems her parents face. Graduation film.
LAIVAPARI / LOVE BOAT
FIN (2000). Subtitles: English. Documentary. 20min. Beta SP
Director: Veera Palosaari
Script: Veera Palosaari
Photography: Teemu Hakanen, Veera Palosaari
Sound: Ville Raitio
Editing: Veera Palosaari, Katja Jönsas
Synopsis:
Tarja ja Tero ovat menossa naimisiin yhtä aikaa 69 muun parin kanssa Viking Cinderellalla uuden vuosituhannen ensimmäisenä päivänä. Lopputyö.
Tarja and Tero are getting married on a cruise between Finland and Sweden, at the same time as 69 other couples. First day of the new millennium.
Graduation film.
Veera Palosaari työskentelee FST:llä. / Veera Palosaari works with FST.
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Saturday May 27th: 'Lapsia Ja Aikuisia-Kuinka niitä tehdään? / Producing Adults'. Finland' official 2004 Oscar entry.
Producing Adults won the Jussi award for the best script and best supporting actress, the FIPRESCI Prize in the Stockholm
International Film Festival, and the Rosebud award for bust film in the Verzaubert - International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
Synopsis: Producing Adults is a comedy about Venla, a psychologist working at an infertility clinic,
who decides to have a baby without telling her husband. Venla is well aware that having children is a big decision
which both parents should consider and agree on. However, her husband is firmly against the idea, and in addition to this,
turns out to be sterile. Venla’s only option seems to be the clinic and the millions of sperms lying dormant in liquid nitrogen.
Venla’s dream about a normal family starts to crumble when her friendship with the female doctor helping her in the fertilisation
process starts to develop into something romantic. In order to get on with her life, Venla has to give up everything she has
and accept everything she hasn’t expected. Producing Adults is a film of the human need to control life, plan,
categorise and produce it. A film of what happens when all those plans fail. A story of a woman who
at the same time experiences the best in life and the worst in life.