Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light.
Cinematography
Golden hour so gorgeous it hurts.
Acting
Baer and Iikkanen communicate entire novels silently.
Score
Sparse synths that ache like memory.
Director
Inari Niemi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Inari Niemi insisted on shooting in chronological order so the young actors' real exhaustion would mirror the summer's end.
The film quietly documents a generation of Finnish queer women whose stories were erased; adult Mariia's silence mirrors real historical silence.
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