Samin elokuva / Sami’s Film
Festival screenings: Helsinki Internatinal Film Festival 2016 (Finnish Competition), Nordic Film Days Lübeck 2016, Blue Sea Film festival - best short film finalist 2017, Miami Short Film Festival 2017 - Best Documentary nominee, Pärnu International Documentary Film Festival 2016, Artova film festival 2016
SYNOPSIS
“I’m always going somewhere, but it’s always the wrong place.” Sami lives in a nursing home. He has Alzheimer’s, and since his wife’s death, his memories are slipping away more and more quickly. Sami owns crates full of Super 8 film rolls. He used to travel the world with his camera. Today he has a hard time recognizing his own photographs.
2016, documentary, 14 min.
Narrator: Leena Uotila
Directed, written and edited by: Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
Produced by: Juho-Pekka Tanskanen, Isabella Karhu
Cinematography by: Jeremias Nieminen, Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
Music by: Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
Sound design by: Toivo Kallio