Director: Lotta Petronella
Finland / 2020 / 78′
For centuries, a closed institution at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea, served as a final destination for socially transgressive women. They were kept there in detention, to be observed, studied and measured — in much the same way as the surrounding nature is by scientists at the now converted research center. While a young scientist is collecting samples around the island, the past emerges in the whispers of the unsent letters and empty rooms. Whose stories are remembered and whose are forgotten?
Filmography:
— SJÄLÖ, ISLAND OF SOULS, 2020
— LAND WITHOUT GOD, 2019
— HOME. SOMEWHERE, 2015
Director: Lotta Petronella
Screenplay: Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen
Producer: Ilona Tolmunen
Cinematographer: Kerttu Hakkarainen
Music: Laura Naukkarinen
Editing: Matti Näränen
