OVERSEAS AND UNDER YOUR SKIN
synopsis
The story of Ida, a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter´s life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter´s struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
international title: | Overseas and Under Your Skin |
original title: | Maata meren alla |
country: | Finland, Germany |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lenka Hellstedt |
release date: | FI 23/01/2009 |
screenplay: | Lenka Hellstedt |
cast: | Amira Khalifa, Matti Ristinen, Marja Packalén, Leena Uotila, Jarkko Niemi, Annika Ernst, Ismail Sahin |
cinematography by: | Mark Stubbs |
film editing: | Kimmo Taavila |
art director: | Saara Joro |
costumes designer: | Titta Kettunen |
producer: | Mika Ritalahti, Niko Ritalahti, Roshanak Behesht Nedjad |
production: | Silva Mysterium Oy, Flying Moon Filmproduktion |
distributor: | Sandrew Metronome Distribution Finland Oy Ab |