The Missile
Lapland, 1984. Niina, a single mom struggling to get by, investigates a Soviet missile crash, sparking chaos and romance.
Niina, a single mother of two children, ends up working as an archiver in the local newspaper. After she hears an enormous bang from the sky and the radio says that the Soviet Union has shot a missile across the Finnish border to Inari, the whole village is filled with reporters from all over the world. Niina is quickly drawn into the investigation, but while she obsesses to find out what happened, she has to confront the truth about her own boundaries.
Awarded director Miia Tervo grew up by the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. Her first short films went worldwide including IDFA, and Torino and one received an EFA nomination. Tervo's debut feature film Aurora (2019) was a critical success and had a world premiere as the opening film in Gothenburg, (SXSW) it had its US premiere, and in Edinburgh, it won the Best International Feature. In the Finnish Oscars/ Jussi Awards it won eight awards. Her second feature The Missile (2024) is now on its world tour.
Aurora (2019)
Tottumiskysymys (2019, co-dir)
Ohjus (The Missile, 2024)