FINLAND / 2022 / 100min.
GIRL PICTURE by Alli Haapasalo
Cast: Aamu Milonoff, Eleonoora Kauhanen, Linnea Leino
Nominations and awards: Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Motovun Film Festival
Short synopsis: As three young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland, they move between dreams, reality, friendship, and relationships, and try to make sense of everything.
Alli Haapasalo is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. She received acclaim for writing and directing On Thin Ice, her thesis film for New York University's famed film school Tisch School of the Arts. This mercenary story won several awards in the United States and was nominated for Prix Europa in 2012. Alli Haapasalo holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Aalto University's School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. Love and Fury (2016) is Haapasalo's feature debut.