Directed by:
Aki KaurismäkiScreenplay:
Aki KaurismäkiCinematography:
Timo SalminenCast:
Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Tommi Korpela, Janne Hyytiäinen, Ilkka Koivula, Kaija Pakarinen, Nuppu Koivu, Tuomari Nurmio, Ville Virtanen, Sulevi Peltola (more)VOD (1)
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This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo - and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director’s work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them played by members of Kaurismäki’s loyal stock company), The Other Side of Hope is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unwelcoming world. (Criterion)
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Sherwan Haji
Best movies:
Fallen Leaves (2023)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
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Sakari Kuosmanen
Finland
Best movies:
Night on Earth (1991)
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Fallen Leaves (2023)
Tommi Korpela
Finland
Best movies:
Purge (2012)
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Janne Hyytiäinen
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Fallen Leaves (2023)
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Ilkka Koivula
Finland
Best movies:
Le Havre (2011)
Centro Histórico (2012)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Kaija Pakarinen
Finland
Best movies:
Drifting Clouds (1996)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Letters to Father Jacob (2009)
Nuppu Koivu
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Fallen Leaves (2023)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Tuomari Nurmio
Finland
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Ville Virtanen
Finland
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Sulevi Peltola
Finland
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Jörn Donner
Finland
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
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Taneli Mäkelä
Finland
Best movies:
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Timo Torikka
Finland
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
1944: The Final Defence (2007)
Maria Järvenhelmi
Finland
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Antti Virmavirta
Finland
Best movies:
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
The Eternal Road (2017)
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Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Finland
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The Interrogation (2009)
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Elina Knihtilä
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Simon Al-Bazoon
Best movies:
Fallen Leaves (2023)
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Kati Outinen
Finland
Best movies:
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Milka Ahlroth
Finland
Best movies:
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