Poster by Laura Mainiemi.

BTS and promo stills by Kaapo Kamu and Johanna Holvikallio

In a time when all the fish are already caught, what is the point of fishing?

Synopsis

In a distant future Finland, people live in a scarred landscape of long-forgotten catastrophes, and no one knows what led to this. A curious young person sets out to seek answers but immediately ends up enslaved by a fanatic cult of semiotics. Were the answers ever worth finding? Or was it the questioning that had intrinsic value? The Eye of the Fen is an allegorical ode to questions that remain unanswered. It is entirely spoken and sung in a fictional Finno-Ugric language and filmed partly on a Finnish “Neva” – a special kind of swamp, and partly in an abandoned nuclear reactor test facility.

Festivals and screenings

– 2024 Les Intergalactiques Sci-Fi Festival, Lyon, France (Official selection)
– 2024 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival, Torun, Poland (Official selection)
– 2024 FINNISH PREMIERE: Tampere Film Festival (Official selection)
– 2024 Blue Sea Film Festival (Mention of Honor: Brave Vision)
– 2024 Helsinki Design Week, Designs for a Cooler Planet (Special programme)
– 2024 SES / Lyhyesti kerran kuussa: Tulevaisuuden horisontti (Official selection)

IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31109834

Trailer:

Suonsilmä (fin)
Eye of the Fen (eng)

2024, Short, 20min
Sci-fi / Black comedy
Language: Samboka
Subtitled: English / Finnish

DIRECTOR: Topi Raulo
SCRIPT: Ossi Hakala
PRODUCER: Suvi Korpela
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Arttu Liimatta
SOUND DESIGN: Saku Anttila
EDITING: Lyydia Mäkipää
ART DEPARTMENT LEAD: Aki Tarkka
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Iida Nurminen
COSTUME DESIGN: Riina Leea Nieminen
MAKEUP DESIGN: Laura Laukkanen
COMPOSER: Anna Voutilainen-Veijonen

CAST
Roosa Söderholm (Person)
Hannele Laaksonen (Grandparent)
Jouni Innilä (Leader)
Eetu Känkänen (Candidate)
Isla Mustanoja (Candidate)
Tuomas Korkia-Aho (Candidate)
Melike Basaranoglu (Candidate)
Tatu Mönttinen (Enlightened)
Juha Pihanen (Enlightened)
Anneli Ranta (Enlightened)

COPYRIGHT: Aalto University

DISTRIBUTION: Aalto University