Baltic premiere

Heartbeast

Local title
Hingeloom
Director
Aino Suni
Country
France, Finland, Germany
Year
2022
Programme
Youth Programme
Subject
love, drugs, music

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...

Director
Aino Suni
Cast
Carmen Kassovitz, Elsi Sloan, Adel Bencherif, Camille, Chilla, Lucille Guillaume
Producer
Sébastien Aubert, Leslie Jacob, Frauke Kolbmüller, Ilona Tolmunen
DoP
Kerttu Hakkarainen
Production designer
Mathilde Ferry
Editor
Ville Hakonen, Thibault Hague
Writer
Aino Suni
Music
Jean-Benoît Dunckel
Production
Adastra Films, Made, Oma Inge Film
World sales
Kinology
Runtime
Language
Finnish, French
Subtitles
English
Director
Aino Suni

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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Screenings

7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening040503 / Hingeloom
SubtitlesEnglish
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2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening071102 / Hingeloom
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening141102 / Hingeloom
SubtitlesEnglish
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