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THEY HAVE ESCAPED (HE OVAT PAENNEET)
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Completed - FINNISH - Drama, Thriller - 100 minutes

Log Line

They Have Escaped is a film about fragile love, childhood dreams and the violence of reality.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2014 (Line up)
  • Cinemart 2014 (Premiere)
  • Toronto 2014 (Screening)
  • AFM 2014 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : J-P VALKEAPÄÄ
Writer(s) : J-P VALKEAPÄÄ, Pilvi PELTOLA
Cast : Pelle HEIKKILÄ, Petteri PENNILÄ, Roosa SÖDERHOLM, Teppo MANNER

Producer(s) : Aleksi BARDY (Helsinki-filmi Oy), Raymond VAN DER KAAIJ (Revolver Amsterdam), Dijana OLCAY-HOT (Revolver Amsterdam)

Synopsis

A boy and girl meet at a custody centre for problematic youths. The boy has come to serve his obligatory civil service. The girl is one of the youths in custody, and she is constantly in trouble, a fire inside her, a lust for life that can't be quashed, or controlled. The boy becomes infatuated with the girl. He is a quiet one, a stutterer. But there is a fire inside him as well. Rules, laws, punishment; the shackles of the hostile environment with no understanding around them can be broken! They steal a car and flee together. Thus begins a journey with endless escapes.

Production

Country(ies) : FINLAND, NETHERLANDS

Festivals and Awards

Venice - Biennale 2014 (Venice Days)
Toronto - TIFF 2014 (Vanguard)


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