Synopsis

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

Iiti Yli-Harja

Iiti Yli-Harja (1987) is a stop-motion animation artist, a documentarist and a musician. She graduated from Aalto University, Finland as Master of Arts in 2021. Her films combine documentary material with fictional elements of stop-motion animation. She finds it valuable that even the process of making a film tries to shape the world for the better, not just the end result. Her documentary puppet animation Real Men (2020) was awarded as the best short film at Helsinki International Film Festival in 2020.