Completed - FINNISH, SWEDISH, SPANISH - Drama - 87 minutes
Jeanette Aspen meets her only child, psychiatrist Karin Aspen, in a mental hospital, 36 years after sending her to Sweden as a child at the start of the Winter War in 1939, as she had travelled to Spain for a new life. The encounter opens a drama between the women complete strangers to each other.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Rax RINNEKANGAS Cast : Ylva EKBLAD, Minna HAAPKYLÄ, Tobias ZILLIACUS, Liisa PÖNTINEN Producer(s) : Rax RINNEKANGAS (Oy Bad Taste Ltd), Pascal GAIGNE (SolisterraeMusic S.L)
Helsinki, spring of 1975: Author Jeanette Aspen arrives at the Lapinlahti hospital, one of the oldest mental hospitals in the world. She is there to meet her only child, psychiatrist Karin Aspen, 36 years after sending her to Sweden as a war child at the start of the Winter War in 1939 as she herself had travelled to Spain to begin a new life. The encounter opens a shocking drama between the mother and daughter, complete strangers to each other. The architectural beauty of the mental hospital serves as an eye-witness to a series of events in which emotions locked up for too long will splash out between the two exceptionally strong women.Ingenuity Award, the 9th Socially Relevant Film Festival, New York, March 2022World Film Carnival Award, Singapore, autumn 2021
Country(ies) : FINLAND, SPAIN
2 2022 (Ingenuity Award, Competion)