OPENING NIGHT SELECTION

Mimmi, Rönkkö, and Emma are three college-age girls in present-day Finland. And like all twenty-somethings, they’re doing their best to understand who they are and what they want from life.

Mimmi struggles with feeling important. Her mother is remarried and has a four-year-old son, and Mimmi can’t help but feel left out, watching as her mother tries to do parenting “right" this time. Mimmi is doing her best to feel her way through her emotions, but all her focus shifts when she meets Emma, a competitive figure skater battling her own issues of value and independence.

Rönkkö isn’t looking for inclusivity or value like her friends. She’s looking for something much more elusive, it seems: sexual pleasure. All she wants is to find that one guy who can make her enjoy sex, help her find that fairytale wonder that she’s heard so much about, but has never experienced for herself.

As the film takes place over three consecutive Fridays, director Alli Haapasola does a terrific job of immersing us into the modern-day life of Finnish young adults in the city, as the three girls move in the same circles, attend the same parties, and two of them work together at a smoothie kiosk in the mall (some of the best scenes of friendship right there). Navigating life can be hard at any age, and college age is extra grueling, but as long as you have your friends to lean on, you just might make it through and figure out a couple things along the way.

~ Georgia Beers

Audience Award, World Cinema Dramatic Competition – Sundance Film Festival

Centerpiece Selection - Miami OutShine Film Festival

Official Selection – Berlin International Film Festival