Baltic premiere
Heartbeast
Elina, a 17 year-old aspiring rapper, is forced to leave her homeland of Finland when her mother decides to join her boyfriend in the South of France. Elina is immediately fascinated by her new step-sister, Sofia, a very charismatic ballerina who leads a double life of parties, boys, and drugs. But this apparent friendship quickly turns into obsession and a game of power with dramatic consequences...
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Based in Helsinki, Aino Suni (1985) is one of the most promising Scandinavian directors of her generation. Her fiction short films Turnaround and Wolf Carver have been selected in major film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand or Sarajevo and broadcasted on Canal+, RTI and YLE. Her documentary film Never Again premiered in 2018. The same year, her debut feature film project A Girl’s Room was selected to EAVE and received the Eurimages development award at Baltic Event. Aino is a Berlinale Talents alumni and member of the European Women’s Audiovisual Network.
Filmograafia Never Again (2018, doc), Heartbeast (2022)
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