Released Date:
2009-01-23
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland, Germany
Runtime:
86 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (127 Reviews)
Director:
Lenka HellstedtRiikka Ala-Harja (novel)
Lenka Hellstedt (screenplay)
Ida is 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?
Released Date:
2012-08-24
Languages:
Finnish
Countries:
Finland
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1325 Reviews)
Director:
Mika KaurismèkiMika Kaurismèki
Sami Keski-Vèhèlè
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to bond with his son, on a road trip to the north.
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