2 Movies Starring Leena Uotila

Overseas and Under Your Skin

Overseas and Under Your Skin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-01-23

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland, Germany

Runtime:

86 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.2 (127 Reviews)

Director:

Lenka Hellstedt

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Riikka Ala-Harja (novel)

Lenka Hellstedt (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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?

Road North

Road North

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-08-24

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (1325 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Mika Kaurismèki

Sami Keski-Vèhèlè

Fullplot:

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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