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IMAGINAERUM

By Stobe HARJU, Mark ROPER

VMI WORLDWIDE - as SALES All rights, World

Fantasy - Completed 2012

The film's story involves a composer who has succumbed to an illness. Tom is now in a coma. In his unconscious, Tom dreams up unbelievable scenes and scenarios. He fights both light and dark forces as he tries to recover his physical awareness.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Fantasy
- Countries
- CANADA, FINLAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Stobe HARJU, Mark ROPER
- Writer(s)
- Stobe HARJU, Richard JACKSON, Tuomas HOLOPAINEN
- Cast
- Tuomas HOLOPAINEN, Marco HIETALA, Marianne FARLEY, Quinn LORD, Francis-Xavier MCCARTHY, Ilkka VILLI
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-9173-0000-H-0000-0000-N
- Producer(s)
- Markus SELIN (Solar Films), André ROULEAU (Caramel Films), Jukka HELLE (Solar Films)
- Synopsis
- Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?
  The film is a journey between two different dimensions. Tom travels through his imaginary world seeking answers and finding memories, while his daughter, Gem, tries to recover the bond she had once shared with her father in the real world. As they have become more and more distant from each other over the years, and as there's even greater obstacles separating them now Toms coma and his imminent death Gems project feels doomed to failure. However, through Toms darkest secrets, Gem discovers the path she must follow in order to find her father again.
  There are some questions we must ask ourselves before entering the world of Imaginaerum. What is most important in life? Can the power of memories protect us during our last moments? Will our imagination help us find the spark of life in the deepest darkness? Can we still find love after bitter forgiveness?
  Imaginaerum is an emotional fantasy-adventure powered by the music of Nightwish. The story reminds us of our childhood where the smallest but most precious thing meant everything and losing it would have left an everlasting scar. Now its time to reopen the wound and see what became of it, but above all, where it came from.