Jannika
Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.
Janette
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
Mira
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
Emilia
15살의 에밀리아는 사실상 집의 가장이다. 부모님의 이혼 후, 항상 ‘다 잘 될 거야’라고 말하는 대책 없는 아버지와 살면서 아직 어린 여동생을 도맡아 돌보기 때문이다. 그러던 중, 여름방학 마지막 날, 에밀리아는 자신이 그토록 꿈꾸던 모습으로 살고 있는 시리를 만난다. 용감하고 자유로우며 독립적인 시리. 우정으로 시작된 그들의 관계는 점점 복잡해지고... 과연 에밀리아는 시리와의 얽혀있는 관계에서 자유를 찾을 수 있을까? (2011년 제13회 서울국제청소년영화제)
Jenni
8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
