Stars Above

The film is about three women. All three are of the same family. All three live in the same country house. The times they live in are different. Saima’s story takes place in 1942. Finland was at war with the Soviet Union in those years. Saima teaches at the village school. Tuulikki’s story takes place in 1978. She is raising a child on her own. Salla’s story belongs to the present. All three are in their thirties. All three are at a point where a choice has to be made. The film ties the three strands together. What it asks is what passes between generations, what mothers hand on and what they keep to themselves. It was selected for competition at the Gothenburg festival. Irina Björklund, Meri Nenonen and Elin Petersdottir appear in the hundred and six minute film, a Finnish and Icelandic production Saara Cantell finished in 2012.