Directed by:
Lenka HellstedtScreenplay:
Lenka HellstedtCinematography:
Mark StubbsComposer:
Anna-Mari KähäräCast:
Amira Khalifa, Marja Packalén, Matti Ristinen, Leena Uotila, Jarkko Niemi, Tomi Salmela, Alf Hemming, Margit Suonperä, Elina Vehkaoja, Sari Viitasalo (more)Plots(1)
The film tells 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 living 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 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? (Silva Mysterium)
(more)Cast
Amira Khalifa
Finland
Best movies:
Road North (2012)
Addiction – When Nothing Is Enough (2004)
Marja Packalén
Finland
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Ariel (1988)
The Interrogation (2009)
Matti Ristinen
Sweden
Best movies:
Frozen Land (2005)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
Christmas Story (2007)
Leena Uotila
Finland
Best movies:
Ladies of Steel (2020)
Road North (2012)
The Human Part (2018)
Jarkko Niemi
Finland
Best movies:
Kamome Diner (2006)
The Eternal Road (2017)
Forbidden Fruit (2009)
Tomi Salmela
Finland
Best movies:
Night on Earth (1991)
Purge (2012)
The Winter War (1989)
Alf Hemming
Finland
Best movies:
The Snow Queen (1986)
Upswing (2003)
Elina Vehkaoja
Best movies:
Love And Fury (2016)
Sari Viitasalo
Finland
Best movies:
Open Up to Me (2013)
Addiction – When Nothing Is Enough (2004)
Leena Rapola
Finland
Best movies:
Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010)
Liisa Isotalo
Finland
Kati Kinnunen
Best movies:
Flowers of Evil (2016)
Dark Floors (2008)
Anna-Leena Sipilä
Finland
Best movies:
Stars Above (2012)
Adult Camp (2015)
The Two and Only (2013)
Pekka Tuhkanen
Best movies:
Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Matti Onnismaa
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
Promise (2005)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Annika Ernst
West Germany
Best movies:
A Coffee in Berlin (2012)
Rabbit Without Ears 2 (2009)
Mann kann, Frau erst recht (2012) (TV movie)