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The Other Side of Hope

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Drama / Comedy
Finland / Germany, 2017, 98 min

Directed by:

Aki Kaurismäki

Screenplay:

Aki Kaurismäki

Cinematography:

Timo Salminen

Cast:

Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Tommi Korpela, Janne Hyytiäinen, Ilkka Koivula, Kaija Pakarinen, Nuppu Koivu, Tuomari Nurmio, Ville Virtanen, Sulevi Peltola (more)
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This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo - and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director’s work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them played by members of Kaurismäki’s loyal stock company), The Other Side of Hope is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unwelcoming world. (Criterion)

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