A summer road trip where the destination is identity, not geography.
Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into.
Cinematography
Endless Finnish midsummer light that refuses to let anyone sleep.
Acting
Pastinen's aimless energy meets Turkama's magnetic instability.
Director
Oskari Sipola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Juhannus (Midsummer) is Finland's biggest holiday—bonfires, all-night sun, and historically, a time for magic and mischief.
Sipola shot during an actual heatwave; the cast's exhaustion and sleeplessness are visibly real.
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