Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
Acting
Lymi and Summanen's excruciatingly believable mutual embarrassment.
Direction
Vuoksenmaa's precise calibration of secondhand shame.
Production
Jakomäki as character: concrete, unglamorous, perfectly itself.
Director
Johanna Vuoksenmaa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jakomäki was Finland's most stigmatized suburb in the 1990s-2000s; the film weaponizes real prejudice for uncomfortable comedy.
Vuoksenmaa has called this her 'fuck you to bourgeois Helsinki'—the couple's journey mirrors how Finnish media itself treats working-class spaces as exotic poverty tourism.
FI
