Euroshorts Finland
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Euroshorts Finland Finland held social realism as the standard for fifty-year of cinematic endeavors. However, since the 80s, innovative minds have spun the wheels of revolution in motion, with creative and radical storytelling. Nestled by the Northern Sea, this European nation continues to break new ground in innovative, moving films and shorts. Eurochannel is proud to present the original work from the most cutting-edge studios in Finland. Euroshorts Finland offers an exclusive opportunity to discover the unique and beautiful ways that Finnish artists portray and alter the reality of this dynamic country. |
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Change of State (Muutos meitä johtaa, 2011) Director: Jussi Sandhu and Ville Hakonen Synopsis: It's the 1970s and with the dawn of color television – image becomes everything. The lottery draw supervisor Mr. Honkonen doesn't conform to these new aesthetic expectations. Honkonen wants to keep his job; what lengths will he go to?
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Hypermarket Nation (Hypermarket-Kansa, 2011) Director: Paula Korva Synopsis: Brothers Ingvar and Stig Palmén run an independent grocery store in the Helsinki subrubs. The store has survived through six decades, now faced with intense competition from faceless hypermarkets – can the family business endure when rock-bottom prices lure their loyal customers away from grocery shopping?
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Largo (Largo, 2010) Director: Kimmo Leed Synopsis: Largo is a story about a family whose members have lost the ability to communicate with one and another. Seen through the eyes of the 17-year-old daughter, it captures the moment when the situation might change. |
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What's up (Mitä kuuluu, 2010) Director: Risto-Pekka Blom Synopsis: The film combines distressed and happy sounds of a baby with images of adult men and women acting out the sounds and the feelings that they carry. The work deals, in a humorous way, with our innate need to feel accepted, loved and happy.
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The Variation (Variationen, 2011) Director: Sebastian Basnes-Rasmussen Synopsis: A young man has recently been fired from his job as a guard at the museum. At home he is met by his brother, an inventor trying to build a time machine. Unemployed and with bills stacking up, he fools his technically gifted brother to break in to his former workplace. The theft doesn't go as planned and the young man's greed causes his brother's death. Devastated by the loss of his brother, the man tries to complete his brother's invention in order to change the events. |











