Kesän Lapsi
Summerchild
Only 40 miles separate 11-year-old Svetlana’s orphanage in Russia from
the house in Finland where she spends her summers, but the disparity between the lives she leads in the two locations couldn’t
be greater. Each year families in Finland take in orphans from Russia to give them a happy summer, but how does that brief
life change affect the children? Olsson’s vérité impression of Svetlana’s life brings you viscerally into her world, from
the grandmother in Russia too poor to care for her to her kind Finnish foster family who speak almost no Russian. The film
is almost overwhelmingly powerful, and ends with a grace and sadness you will never forget.
Director's Biography
Iris Olsson studierte Dokumentarfilm an der Universität
für Kunst und Gestaltung in Helsinki.
Filme (Auswahl): Flight (2004), Saly (2005)
Filme (Auswahl): Flight (2004), Saly (2005)
Special 2009
Iris
Olsson
Finland 2007
color
60
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Iris Olsson
Cinematography
Anssi Leino
Production
University of Art and Design Helsinki