A MOMENT IN THE REEDS
by Mikko Makela
synopsis
Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and spend a few days discovering one another during the Finnish midsummer.
international title: | A Moment in the Reeds |
original title: | Tämä hetki kaislikossa |
working title: | Tämä hetki kaislikossa |
country: | Finland, United Kingdom |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Mikko Makela |
film run: | 108' |
release date: | FI 29/06/2018, FR 20/03/2019 |
screenplay: | Mikko Makela |
cast: | Janne Puustinen, Boodi Kabbani, Mika Melender, Virpi Rautsiala |
cinematography by: | Iikka Salminen |
film editing: | Mikko Makela |
costumes designer: | Kati Silo |
music: | Sebastián Kauderer |
producer: | Mikko Makela, Jarno Pimperi, James Robert Benjamin Watson |
executive producer: | William R. Carter |
associate producer: | Stuart Malcolm Honey |
production: | Bêtes Sauvages |
distributor: | Peccadillo Pictures, Outplay Films |