Director | Saarlotta Virri
Script | Saarlotta Virri
Director of photography | Annika Miettinen
Editing | Venla Monni
Sound designer | Juhana Vihervaara
Composer | Tiko Tikka
Main cast | Satu Koivisto, Elisa Ahverdov, Jukka Korhonen, Vesa Vuorimaa, Arto Jämsinen, Karoliina Miskala, Katju Halttunen, Jarmo Hänninen, Pekka Saarikko, Jani Tynnyrinen, Pasi Raatikainen
Producers | Ida Karoskoski, Senni Rissanen
Production company | Aalto University, ARTS,ELO Film School Finland
A wetland archaeologist tracks groundwater levels in a drained mire. In a quiet village, the emergency call center receives reports of a drifting island. This kaleidoscopic tale takes us on a journey across time and place, exploring the tense relationship between humans and wetlands from surprising perspectives that blend science and oral folklore.
About the director:
Saarlotta Virri (b. 1993) is a documentary filmmaker working and living in Helsinki. Her films navigate the space between playfulness and sorrow, often finding surprising ways to deal with collective and private grief as well as the transience of everything. Instead of individualist stories, she has focused on exploring the cacophony of collective voices and the human relationship with their immediate surroundings.
She works mainly with 16mm film and finds herself most at ease at the border between the real and the imagined. Her previous films have been screened and awarded at international festivals such as Riga IFF, Pöff, FIPADOC and Zagreb film festival.