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L’autre côté de l’espoir

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Fiction

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Friday, 13 April 2018 | 20:30 La Maison du Cinéma

                                    Poster of L’autre côté de l’espoir

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the new film from Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre) intertwines the stories of two itinerant protagonists: Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a young Syrian refugee who drifts into Helsinki harbour as a stowaway; and Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), a travelling salesman turned restaurateur, who finds Khaled sleeping outside his diner and hires him as a cleaner and dishwasher. “The issue of migrants and refugees [may] still be something from which cinema mostly averts its gaze, [but] not Kaurismäki’s cinema…. His humane comedy [has] absorbed this idea, [and] in fact embraced it with almost miraculous ease and simplicity” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian).

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Screenplay

Aki Kaurismäki

Country

Finland

Year

2017

Duration

1h38

Category

Fiction

Language

Finnish, subtitled in French

Cast

Sherwan Haji and Sakari Kuosmanen

Production

Sputnik Oy

Distribution

EyeSteelFilm
View the trailer Press kit

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