Finnish Blood Swedish Heart

Synopsis

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.

Director Biography

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.