Venice 2014

HE OVAT PAENNEET (THEY HAVE ESCAPED) - Venice Days

by J-P Valkeapää
Finland 2014, 100 mins

with Teppo Manner, Roosa Söderholm, Petteri Pennilä, Pelle Heikkilä

produced by Aleksi Bardy

production company: Helsinki-filmi

WORLD SALES: THE YELLOW AFFAIR

A boy and girl meet at a custody center for problem youth. The boy has come to serve his obligatory civil service. The girl is one of the youths in custody, and she is constantly in trouble, a fire inside her, a lust for life that can't be quashed, or controlled. The boy becomes infatuated with the girl. He is a quiet one; a stutterer. But there is a fire inside him as well.

Rules, laws, punishment; the shackles of the hostile environment with no understanding around them can be broken. They steal a car and flee together. Thus begins a journey with endless escapes.

They Have Escaped is a film about fragile love, childhood dreams and the violence of reality.

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