Tia Kouvo’s debut feature follows an annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise.
Screen can reveal the trailer for Tia Kouvo’s debut feature Family Time which is world premiering at the Berlinale (February 16-26) in the Encounters strand.
The comedy-drama follows an annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise. It’s based on Kouvo’s s 2018 short of the same name which picked up a special mention at Helsinki International Film Festival (Love & Anarchy).
Family Time is produced by Finland’s Aamu Film Company in co-production with Sweden outfits Vilda Bomben Film and Film i Väst.
Screen can reveal the trailer for Tia Kouvo’s debut feature Family Time which is world premiering at the Berlinale (February 16-26) in the Encounters strand.
The comedy-drama follows an annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise. It’s based on Kouvo’s s 2018 short of the same name which picked up a special mention at Helsinki International Film Festival (Love & Anarchy).
Family Time is produced by Finland’s Aamu Film Company in co-production with Sweden outfits Vilda Bomben Film and Film i Väst.
- 1/31/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Fresh off Juho Kuosmanen’s win at Cannes – where his “Compartment No. 6” was awarded the Grand Prix in July, sharing the prize with Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero” – Finland’s Aamu Film Company will focus its attention on Tia Kouvo’s “Family Time,” scheduled to shoot in February and March 2022.
Produced by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka, the film, primarily set at Christmas, will show a family of eight struggling to communicate and echoing Tolstoy’s statement that while all happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
“I have been working with the same directors for years, saying no to many interesting projects. Then I saw Tia’s graduation short and realized we have to find room for one more,” says Rantamäki, also behind Kuosmanen’s Un Certain Regard winner “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” and Hamy Ramezan’s Berlinale entry “Any Day Now.
Produced by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka, the film, primarily set at Christmas, will show a family of eight struggling to communicate and echoing Tolstoy’s statement that while all happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
“I have been working with the same directors for years, saying no to many interesting projects. Then I saw Tia’s graduation short and realized we have to find room for one more,” says Rantamäki, also behind Kuosmanen’s Un Certain Regard winner “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” and Hamy Ramezan’s Berlinale entry “Any Day Now.
- 9/15/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
A Finnish party girl falls in love with an Iranian refugee in “Aurora,” an enjoyable dramedy from helmer-writer Miia Tervo. Unspooling during snowy winter in rugged Finnish Lapland, the exuberant narrative cleverly exploits the location and unconventional characters to add something fresh to familiar romantic comedy beats. Despite its raucous surface and frequently risqué Finnish culture jokes, the film is suffused with tenderness and melancholy. Moreover, it poignantly addresses some big themes — including the plight of asylum seekers and female alcoholism — while capturing the feelings of restlessness derived from being stuck in a remote place with a lack of opportunity. After opening the recent Göteborg Film Festival, it will make its U.S. premiere at SXSW in March.
Like her namesake, the northern lights, the eponymous twentysomething is a force of nature. Aurora is a wild, commitment-phobic, good-time girl with a drinking problem that she denies. She’s fed up...
Like her namesake, the northern lights, the eponymous twentysomething is a force of nature. Aurora is a wild, commitment-phobic, good-time girl with a drinking problem that she denies. She’s fed up...
- 2/10/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Irina just wants to escape from her troubled life for the summer, and the job at the textile plant in the isolated village of Kyrsya seems like the perfect getaway. But as Irina uncovers the truth about the town and its strange residents, she finds that she may never come back from her summer escape in the new Finnish thriller Tuftland. Ahead of its theatrical release from Subliminal Films this March, we've been provided with the official trailer for Tuftland to exclusively share with Daily Dead readers.
Subliminal Films will release Tuftland online as well as theatrically in New York and Los Angeles (where it will be screened at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills) on March 1st.
Written and directed by Roope Olenius, and based on the play by Neea Viitamäki, Tuftland features a cast that includes Veera W. Vilo, Saara Elina, Miikka J. Anttila, Ria Kataja, and Neea Viitamaki.
Subliminal Films will release Tuftland online as well as theatrically in New York and Los Angeles (where it will be screened at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills) on March 1st.
Written and directed by Roope Olenius, and based on the play by Neea Viitamäki, Tuftland features a cast that includes Veera W. Vilo, Saara Elina, Miikka J. Anttila, Ria Kataja, and Neea Viitamaki.
- 1/28/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Seth Metoyer,
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Some horror coming at you from my ancestral stomping grounds of Finland, Tuftland (Kyrsyä) will have its North American Premiere at Other Worlds Austin film festival in December.
Check out all the details below as well as a couple of stills.
From The Press Release
Roope Olenius’ directorial debut film Tuftland (Kyrsyä) will have its North American Premiere at Other Worlds Austin film festival in December. The Finnish hillbilly horror will screen alongside horror and scifi films including Beyond Skyline and Curvature, which stars Linda Hamilton (Terminator, Terminator II).
“It’s awesome to have our film premiere in Austin, Texas! After studying filmmaking for several years in United States, it feels great to come back and show what I’ve been able to pull off after studies in Finland. I can’t wait to see what the people of Austin will think about our crazy Finnish hillibillies,...
MoreHorror.com
Some horror coming at you from my ancestral stomping grounds of Finland, Tuftland (Kyrsyä) will have its North American Premiere at Other Worlds Austin film festival in December.
Check out all the details below as well as a couple of stills.
From The Press Release
Roope Olenius’ directorial debut film Tuftland (Kyrsyä) will have its North American Premiere at Other Worlds Austin film festival in December. The Finnish hillbilly horror will screen alongside horror and scifi films including Beyond Skyline and Curvature, which stars Linda Hamilton (Terminator, Terminator II).
“It’s awesome to have our film premiere in Austin, Texas! After studying filmmaking for several years in United States, it feels great to come back and show what I’ve been able to pull off after studies in Finland. I can’t wait to see what the people of Austin will think about our crazy Finnish hillibillies,...
- 11/12/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Competition
BERLIN -- Black Ice can be a treacherous hazard to drivers in cold climes where a slippery patch disguises itself as a dry roadway. Fittingly, Petri Kotwica's Black Ice follows suit: The film has its characters slipping and sliding all over an icy psychological landscape in a twisted thriller about marital infidelity, manipulation and betrayal. The Finnish writer-director himself skates across thin ice in a not always convincing third act. Nevertheless, it's an exciting ride that displays ferocious talent on both sides of the camera as a taut tale of near-claustrophobic intimacy gets the Cinemascope treatment.
Black Ice could break out of the Art House ghetto to wider audiences if properly marketed in Europe. It will have to battle lack of name recognition in North America but could find welcoming audiences in specialty venues.
Kotwica keeps a tight focus on three characters that form a most unusual romantic triangle.
The pivotal one is philandering Helsinki architect and professor Leo (Martti Suoalo). When his lovely gynecologist wife Saara (Outi Maenpaa) gets wind of his extramarital pursuits, she creates a fake identity to get acquainted with her husband's mistress, a young graphic arts student named Tuuli (Ria Kataja). Saara even, somewhat unwittingly, joins the martial arts class Tuuli teaches.
The two become very friendly in short order. As Saara has moved out of the house she shares with Leo, her new identity permits her the freedom to reimagine her life, even bedding down with a much younger German student after one of Tuuli's impromptu parties.
Saara actually grows to like her rival, but she still has a jealous streak and means to rid her life of Tuuli one way or another. Before long, Leo's sister and brother-in-law get pulled almost comically into Saara's improvised revenge plot.
Masks at a midwinter revelry play a role in this game of disguise and vengeance and Maenpaa is the perfect actress for this. She has a wise, even placid, face but every now and then flashes of pain and anger play across it with startling ferocity. Kataja's mistress is less a Femme Fatale than a contradiction of feminine strength (the martial arts) and gullible innocence (her taking both husband and wife at face value). Suosalo's Leo is a man of insatiable desires, a perpetual pursuer of young flesh, oblivious to the damage he causes. And the jeopardy he puts himself in.
Kotwica shoots in widescreen in Helsinki and its wooded suburbs, a place where the frozen wilds seem to encroach on the city. The characters move with deceptive freedom within the wide frame but are trapped by their own foolishness. As events move fatefully to a somewhat overwrought climax, the city's wildness reclaims them from their bourgeois complacency as primal instincts take over.
BLACK ICE
Making Movies/Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Petri Kotwica
Producers: Kai Norberg, Kaarle Aho, Leander Carell, Patrick Knippel, Steffen Reuter
Director of photography: Harri Raty
Music: Eicca Toppinen
Costume designer: Kristina Saha
Editor: Jukka Nykanen
Cast:
Saara: Outi Maenpaa
Tuuli: Ria Kataja
Leo: Martti Suosalo
Ilkka: Ville Virtanen; Lea: Sara Paavolainen; Krista: Netta Heikkila; Uwe: Philipp Danne
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BERLIN -- Black Ice can be a treacherous hazard to drivers in cold climes where a slippery patch disguises itself as a dry roadway. Fittingly, Petri Kotwica's Black Ice follows suit: The film has its characters slipping and sliding all over an icy psychological landscape in a twisted thriller about marital infidelity, manipulation and betrayal. The Finnish writer-director himself skates across thin ice in a not always convincing third act. Nevertheless, it's an exciting ride that displays ferocious talent on both sides of the camera as a taut tale of near-claustrophobic intimacy gets the Cinemascope treatment.
Black Ice could break out of the Art House ghetto to wider audiences if properly marketed in Europe. It will have to battle lack of name recognition in North America but could find welcoming audiences in specialty venues.
Kotwica keeps a tight focus on three characters that form a most unusual romantic triangle.
The pivotal one is philandering Helsinki architect and professor Leo (Martti Suoalo). When his lovely gynecologist wife Saara (Outi Maenpaa) gets wind of his extramarital pursuits, she creates a fake identity to get acquainted with her husband's mistress, a young graphic arts student named Tuuli (Ria Kataja). Saara even, somewhat unwittingly, joins the martial arts class Tuuli teaches.
The two become very friendly in short order. As Saara has moved out of the house she shares with Leo, her new identity permits her the freedom to reimagine her life, even bedding down with a much younger German student after one of Tuuli's impromptu parties.
Saara actually grows to like her rival, but she still has a jealous streak and means to rid her life of Tuuli one way or another. Before long, Leo's sister and brother-in-law get pulled almost comically into Saara's improvised revenge plot.
Masks at a midwinter revelry play a role in this game of disguise and vengeance and Maenpaa is the perfect actress for this. She has a wise, even placid, face but every now and then flashes of pain and anger play across it with startling ferocity. Kataja's mistress is less a Femme Fatale than a contradiction of feminine strength (the martial arts) and gullible innocence (her taking both husband and wife at face value). Suosalo's Leo is a man of insatiable desires, a perpetual pursuer of young flesh, oblivious to the damage he causes. And the jeopardy he puts himself in.
Kotwica shoots in widescreen in Helsinki and its wooded suburbs, a place where the frozen wilds seem to encroach on the city. The characters move with deceptive freedom within the wide frame but are trapped by their own foolishness. As events move fatefully to a somewhat overwrought climax, the city's wildness reclaims them from their bourgeois complacency as primal instincts take over.
BLACK ICE
Making Movies/Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Petri Kotwica
Producers: Kai Norberg, Kaarle Aho, Leander Carell, Patrick Knippel, Steffen Reuter
Director of photography: Harri Raty
Music: Eicca Toppinen
Costume designer: Kristina Saha
Editor: Jukka Nykanen
Cast:
Saara: Outi Maenpaa
Tuuli: Ria Kataja
Leo: Martti Suosalo
Ilkka: Ville Virtanen; Lea: Sara Paavolainen; Krista: Netta Heikkila; Uwe: Philipp Danne
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/11/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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