Archive: Year 2013
Focus Nordic
Finnish Blood Swedish Heart
Laulu koti-ikävästä
Director
Mika Ronkainen
Producers
Klaffi Tuotanno
Ulla Simonen
Cinematographer
Vesa Taipaleenmäki
Editor
Åsa Mossberg
Sound
Esa Nissi
Website
Contact
The Finnish Film Foundation
Marja Pallassalo
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
+358 9 6220 3021
[email protected]
2012
Finland, Sweden
90 min
Color
Kai and his father Tauno drive from Oulu in northern Finland down to Gothenburg where they lived during the ‘70s. The drive becomes a musical journey through emotional memories and the history of Finnish emigration to Sweden; a history too of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism and family secrets.
Mika Ronkainen (born 1970 in Kuusamo, Finland) is a Finnish film director from Oulu, Northern Finland. His best-known films are documentaries Screaming Men (2003) and Freetime Machos (2009), the former being a portrayal of a Finnish screaming male choir Mieskuoro Huutajat, and latter being a portrayal of a rugby team which is allegedly the most northern and the third lousiest in the world.
Other films in Focus Nordic
A Society
All Hallows’ Week
Backyard
Belleville Baby
Bravehearts
Creature
Dance Music Now
Dance of Outlaws
De andre Nowhere Home
Expedition to the End of the World
Gates of Life
Girl in the Water
Glorious Accidents
Gnarr
Gulabi Gang
Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys
Last Days of the Arctic
My Stolen Revolution
No Burqas Behind Bars
North of the Sun
Palme
Premature
Rent a Family Inc.
Resistente
Searching for Bill
Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto
Sharaf - An Animated Documentary
Sigur Rós Valtari Film Experiment
Six Day Run
The Act of Killing
The Child of Silent Winter
The Date
The Punk Syndrome
To Guard a Mountain
Two Islands
Video Boy
Walking Blues
Whale Valley
When One Stops
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