Second Birth

Documentary film Second Birth is the story of the tight friendship between Finnish painter Liisa Rautiainen (born 1919) and German photographer Detlef Trefz (born 1950). Both fill their days with creating images, and sharing this passion is at the heart of their friendship. Because of his friendship with Liisa, Detlef Trefz, a top ad photographer and cosmopolitan, gave up throbbing metropoles for the arctic, remote town of Keminmaa. Liisa eagerly shares her long experience and because of her prodding, Detlef starts to paint. Liisa had a near-death experience when she was ill and she feels she has been given a new life. (Illume Oy)