THEY HAVE ESCAPED

HE OVAT PAENNEET

By J-P VALKEAPÄÄ

HELSINKI-FILMI - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2014

They Have Escaped is a film about fragile love, childhood dreams and the violence of reality.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2014
Venice Days
Toronto - TIFF 2014
Vanguard
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Countries
    • FINLAND, NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • FINNISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • J-P VALKEAPÄÄ
    • Writer(s)
    • J-P VALKEAPÄÄ, Pilvi PELTOLA
    • Producer(s)
    • Aleksi BARDY (Helsinki-filmi Oy), Raymond VAN DER KAAIJ (Revolver Amsterdam), Dijana OLCAY-HOT (Revolver Amsterdam)
    • Synopsis
    • A boy and girl meet at a custody centre for problematic youths. The boy has come to serve his obligatory civil service. The girl is one of the youths in custody, and she is constantly in trouble, a fire inside her, a lust for life that can't be quashed, or controlled. The boy becomes infatuated with the girl. He is a quiet one, a stutterer. But there is a fire inside him as well. Rules, laws, punishment; the shackles of the hostile environment with no understanding around them can be broken! They steal a car and flee together. Thus begins a journey with endless escapes.