A 30-minute punch to the gut about a boy who'd rather break his sister than lose her.
Sixteen-year-old Tomi trusts no one and does his best to protect his little sister Aino from the dangers of the world. But Aino is changing, fast. Because of his own fear of loneliness, Tomi tries to stop his sister, but he will eventually find out that you cannot control another person by force.
Acting
Jesse Martin's smothering panic is genuinely hard to watch.
Direction
Ramezan traps you in Tomi's claustrophobic worldview.
Cinematography
Golden hour Finland that feels suffocating, not beautiful.
Director
Hamy Ramezan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vappu (Walpurgis Night) is Finland's wild spring festival—here it becomes a pressure cooker for repressed tensions.
Ramezan based the film partly on his own immigrant experience of masculine protection becoming possession; the knife man's presence hints at threats both real and imagined.
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