There Will Be Spring
Syksyn jälkeen saapuu kevät
Directed by
Finland
2020
74 min
- Finnish
Drama
A harrowing drama about war broken people in 1940's Finland hovering between desire and hate.
Festivals
Credits
- Cast
- Asta Sveholm
- Turkka Mastomäki
- Verneri Lilja
- Screenplay
- Annika Grof
Director's Statement
In 2015, EU countries offered asylum to almost 300 000 refugees. Also the Finnish people were touched by the wave of immigrants in various ways. The intrusion of war into our European lives built up feelings and thoughts we hadn’t encountered in decades. In the middle of that period I wanted to write a story about complicated relationship between the people who had to leave their homes and those who in the alien country offered a new one. Through the themes of the story I wanted to ponder the universal difficulty of encountering each other. In There Will Be Spring, young Anni is courageously open to new life meanwhile the hatred between her brothers and the locals only increases. Anni’s sensual awakening puts her in between in a conflict, and eventually only tragic events can make room for mutual understanding.
- Production
- TARASOW FILMS
Annika Grof
Finland
Annika Grof has graduated from University of Industrial Design and Art Helsinki, department of Film. She has been working as a director, scriptwriter and developer in film, tv and commercial productions since 2006. Her best known work is feature documentary WITHIN LIMITS (2009) which has won international prices and was a Jussi-prize nominee in Finland. Annika’s latest film work is a feature fiction THERE WILL BE SPRING which is now at post production.
Annika has always been strongly interested in the world and people around her. Her curiosity towards different kinds of phenomenons has brought her at remarkably varied range of topics. Items such as loneliness in the old age, isolation, sexuality, state rank politics as well as institutions, money, high fashion and family issues are seen in the movies and tv-series she has directed.
Annika’s strength as a director in both documentary and fiction productions are an ability to get close to people. Her way to write and direct is of emotion. As a filmmaker she makes the content the first priority, and secondly creates an interesting form to support the content. As part of a crew she inspires and supports it by working hard to archive a result to be proud of.
