Completed - FINNISH - Drama - 102 minutes
Hanna is a film director. She loses her dream job to her rival Kristian who is much more popular, and not single. Thus, she decides to create a parody romance on Instagram to question the image ones offers to society. This fake romance will have unexpected effects.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Hannaleena HAURU Writer(s) : Hannaleena HAURU, Lasse POSER Cast : Hannaleena HAURU, Lasse POSER, Samuel KUJALA Producer(s) : Emilia HAUKKA (AAMU FILM COMPANY), Jussi RANTAMÄKI (AAMU FILM COMPANY)
When Hanna and her counterculture group decide to show how society is hungry for romantic narratives, she starts living a crowd-pleasing love story for the publicon Instagram. As the fake-romance starts affecting everyone involved, a hurricane of desires, fantasies, hurt and intimacy is set off. Everyone involved has to decide what and how they are ready to put in front of the camera. Fiction and auto-fiction crash and melt into each other, as writer-director Hannaleena Hauru plays the lead role of an ever-single film director “Hanna”.
Country(ies) : FINLAND
Viennale 2020 (Biennale College Cinema)Seville Film Festival 2020 (The New Waves)SXSW 2021 (Global)