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A Moment in the Reeds’ Impact [is] heightened through restraint…[and the] cast is expert…”

— Dennis Harvey,


London Film Festival Shining a Spotlight on LGBT Movies

— Alex Ritman,


A Moment in the Reeds
2017 | Finland / UK | 107 min
ABOUT THE FILM

LONG SYNOPSIS

A MOMENT IN THE REEDS is an intimate drama about the chance encounter of two men by the Finnish lakeside. Leevi, who has left Finland behind to study abroad, returns for the summer to help his father renovate the family lake house. Tareq, a Syrian asylum seeker, has also been hired to help, and when Leevi’s father returns to town on business, the two young men give into their mutual attraction, spending a few midsummer days discovering one another. Among the first queer-themed feature films made in Finland, A Moment in the Reeds casts the long-marginalised voices of sexual and ethnic minorities centre-stage in a story about the search for freedom, acceptance and a place to call home.


Writer & Director Mikko Makela
Producers Mikko Makela, James Robert Watson, Jarno Pimperi
Executive Producer William R. Carter
Editor Mikko Makela
additional editing by Jojo Erholtz
Cinematographer Iikka Salminen
Sound Enos Desjardins, Arttu Volanto, Jaakko Kautto
Music Sebastian Kauderer, Luke Richards
Cast Janne Puustinen, Boodi Kabbani, Mika Melender, Virpi Rautsiala

FESTIVALS
2017: BFI London International; 2018: Wicked Queer

FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Blu-Ray, DVD


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WEBSITE

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