Finnish Film ‘Boy Upside Down’ in India, celebrating 20 years of European Film Festival

Finnish Film ’Boy Upside Down’ is one of the 21 award-winning latest European films is getting screened in India for celebrating the 20^th year of the European Film Festival.  The Film Festival is in Coimbatore from 8-18 July and Jodhpur from 10-24 July.

Synopsis of the Film:

The film is about Oliver (Esa Nikkilä), an 11-year-old boy, who loses his parents in a car

 accident. He refuses to mourn and instead starts investigating the cause of the accident. As he investigates, he meets Joonas (Kari Hietalahti), an alarm system salesman, and an unexpected friendship evolves. Over one summer Oliver gets to know two extraordinary older men, Jaakko (Esko Salminen) and Rafu (Sulevi Peltola), who run an old cinema together. Despite the film’s gloomy starting point, Boy Upside Down is a warm and positive survival story full of quick twists and turns, and proof that life goes on, even though sometimes the going gets tough.

Director: Mr. Juha Lehtola

Producer: Ms. Liisa Penttilä-Asikainen & Ms. Pauli Pentti

Duration: 94 minutes

Cast: Esa Nikkilä, Kari Hietalahti, Susanna Haavisto, Maria Heiskanen, Esko Salminen, Sulevi Peltola, Tommi Korpela, Torik Sieberg, Kukka Luukanen, Liisa Mustonen, Petteri Summanen

The 20th European Union Film Festival will present different genres of European Cinema from drama and romance to comedy and documentaries. The Delegation of the European Union to India and embassies of member states of the European Union together with the helping hand of many local partners bring the Film Festival to 8 vibrant cities of India.

Schedule of the Finnish Film in Jodhpur:

EU Film Festival in Coimbatore:Screening Schedule (Opens New Window)

EU Film Festival in Jodhpur:  Screening Schedule (Opens New Window)