Knock, Knock
Leila is a recently divorced woman, who’s husband’s gone and their apartment’s been sold. She looks around the empty rooms and finds it difficult to understand that this is her life.
Black Ice
Musta jää
Black Ice is a suspenseful drama about an unlikely relationship between two women. The main characters, Saara and Tuuli, are irresistible and unpredictable women of equal strength. Saara suspects her husband of having an affair.
The story takes place in Helsinki and it’s surroundings. Saara is a gynecologist at the verge of her 40th birthday. She is married to Leo, an architect and a lecturer at the University of Technology.
Tuuli is a 25-year-old student in architecture, her boyfriend is the lecturer, Leo. Everything would be fine, if only Leo could be man enough to sort things out with his “almost ex” -wife.
INFO
Movie title
Black Ice
Original title
Musta jää
Production year
2007
Genre
Drama, Thriller
Length
99 min
Languages
Finnish, English
Director
Petri Kotwica
Screenplay
Petri Kotwica
Cast
Saara
Outi Mäenpää
Tuuli
Riia Kataja
Leo
Martti Suosalo
Ilkka
Ville Virtanen
Lea
Sara Paavolainen
Crew
Cinematography
Harri Räty
Production Design
Sattva-Hanna Toiviainen
Costume Design
Pirita Niva
Editing
Jukka Nykänen
Sound Design
Christian Riegel
Music
Eicca Toppinen
Producers
Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg
Co-producers
Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Leander Carell
Awards
BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT, BEST EDITING, BEST FEMALE ACTRESS, BEST MUSIC/SCORE
JUSSI AWARDS 2008
BEST ACTRESS RIA KATAJA AND OUTI MÄENPÄÄ
24TH FESTROIA, PORTUGAL 2008
Festivals
IN COMPETITION 58th International Film Festival, Berlinale, Germany 2008
XXVI Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo 2008
Cannes International Film Festival, France 2008
24th Festroia, Portugal, 2008
Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland 2008
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia 2008
Brussels European Film Festival, Belgium 2008
Palic IFF, Serbia, 19.–25.7.2008, IN COMPETITION
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel 2008
Motovun Film Festival, Croatia 2008
The Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund, Norway 2008
New Nordic Films, Haugesund, Norway 2008
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival, Finland 2008
9th Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2008
24th Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland 2008
Hamptons International Film Festival, East Hampton, NY, USA 2008
Canberra International Film Festival, Australia 2008
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany 2008
Sevilla International Film Festival, Spain 2008
Leeds International Film Festival, UK 2008
Taipei Golden Horse TIFF, Taiwan 2008
Kolkata Film Festival, India 2008
Scanorama, Vilnius, Lithuania 2008
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia 2008
Euro Film Festival MUCES Segovia FF, Spain 2008
15th Osaka European Film Festival, Japan 2008
Goa International Film Festival of India 2008
International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia 2008
Finnish Film Week in St. Petersburg, Russia 2008
International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia 2008
Plus Camerimage, Lodz, Poland 2008
Finnish Film Week in Petroskoi, Russia 2008
Finnish Film Week, Kinop Muranow, Poland 2008
Pune International Film Festival, India 2009
Finnish Film Week in Moscow, Russia 2009
Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2009
Cinema ZED, in Leuven, Belgium 2009
Mosaico Film Fest, Ravenna, Italy 2009
Newport Beach Film Festival, USA 2009
Skandinavische Filmtage Bonn, Germany 2009
EuroCine 27, Brussels, Belgium 2009
Finnish Days, Cinamon Cinema, Tartu, Estonia 2009
Tokyo EU Film Festival, Japan 2009
The American-Scandinavian Foundation Recent Film Series, NY, USA 2009
15th Film and Art Festival “Film Summer”, Poland 2009
The Seattle Nordic Light´s Film Festival, USA 2009
EU Film Festival, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Canada 2009
Minneapolis’ Twin Cities Nordic Lights Film Fest, USA 2009
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