Casts & Crew
Jussi Nikkilä
Misa Lommi
Matti Mäntylä
Mikko Virtanen
Vilma Melasniemi
Seppo Maijala
Aamu Milonoff
Ville Myllyrinne
Juha Kukkonen
Jessica Grabowsky
Armi Toivanen
Kalle Lamberg
Hanna Ollikainen
Tommi Taurula
Amira Khalifa
Marc Gassot
Miina Turunen
Jarkko Nyman
Pekka Ruohoranta
Maria Nieminen
Kirsti Valve
Salla Kozma
Also Directed by Matti Kinnunen
Story about father and his son and small town bullies and those who stare beside silently approving all bad to happen. Ex-priest moves to small town of Harmaaketo together with his son, where they get instantly bullied and terrorized. Even when there's zero tolerance for such things, no one can or don't want to stop it before it's too late and things escalate to the point of no return.
Daniela, Svetlana, and Matti film their relationship to the Arctic. The concern for the future of an unborn child, longing for home and a traditional way of life in the world of possibilities provided by capitalism form the foundation of the film. Arctic Utopias probes the individual’s emotional spectrum in a rapidly changing environment.
Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.