Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours.

Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion.

Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions.

While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down.

Director Alli Haapasalo

Director's Statement:

From early on, it started to take this sort of undercurrent feminist mission aspect. It's not an agenda film only, of course.

I think it is in a way a feel-good film, it aims to be entertaining and moving, but it was very important for me to talk about girlhood in a way that would be a fresher take on the films about young adults I saw as a teenager.

I would have liked to see more girls on the screen, and more girls like we show in the film. To develop the story, we did have to go through a complex process during the writing stage. It took many years to write it.

There was, for example, a version in which Mimi's characters struggles with her sexual orientation and while we were moving further, we realized this represented more the "old world." This shouldn't be an issue. And we decided not to say anything about it, since it's not about a coming-out, but about a love story between the two protagonists.