ORENDA PIRJO HONKASALO

  • FINLAND

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  • FINNISH | ENGLISH

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  • 2025

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  • 119 mins

  • FILM COURTESY

    Embassy of Finland, New Delhi

On a remote lighthouse island, two women are forced to confront a shared past. Nora, a renowned opera singer, arrives to bury her husband, who has taken his own life and wished to be laid to rest there. She encounters Natalia, a former priest living in isolation, who is unsettled by Nora’s presence. Bound by their connection to the same man, the two women struggle to find words for grief, guilt, and unspoken truths. Together they face questions of love, faith, and forgiveness.

ಒಂದು ದೂರದ ದ್ವೀಪದ ಲೈಟ್‌ಹೌಸ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಬ್ಬರು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ತಮ್ಮ ಹಳೆಯ ನೆನಪುಗಳನ್ನು ಎದುರಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಸಂದರ್ಭ ಬರುತ್ತದೆ. ನೋರಾ ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಖ್ಯಾತ ಒಪೆರಾ ಗಾಯಕಿ, ಆತ್ಮಹತ್ಯೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡ ತನ್ನ ಪತಿಯ ಅಂತ್ಯಕ್ರಿಯೆಗಾಗಿ ಆ ದ್ವೀಪಕ್ಕೆ ಬರುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ತನ್ನನ್ನು ಅಲ್ಲೇ ಹೂಳಬೇಕೆಂಬುದು ಅವಳ ಪತಿಯ ಕೊನೆಯ ಆಸೆಯಾಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಅವಳಿಗೆ ನಟಾಲಿಯಾ ಎಂಬ ಮಾಜಿ ಪಾದ್ರಿ ಸಿಗುತ್ತಾಳೆ. ಜನರಿಂದ ದೂರವಾಗಿ ಏಕಾಂಗಿಯಾಗಿ ಬದುಕುತ್ತಿರುವ ನಟಾಲಿಯಾಗೆ ನೋರಾಳ ಬರುವಿಕೆ ಇಷ್ಟವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ, ಒಂದೇ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಇಬ್ಬರಿಗೂ ಇದ್ದ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಅವರನ್ನು ಹತ್ತಿರ ತರುತ್ತದೆ. ದುಃಖ, ಅಪರಾಧ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ ಮತ್ತು ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಹೇಳಲಾಗದ ಸತ್ಯಗಳ ನಡುವೆ ಇಬ್ಬರೂ ಮೌನವಾಗಿ ಹೋರಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ಜಿಗುಟಾದ ಹಾದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರು ಪ್ರೀತಿ, ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕ್ಷಮೆಯ ಕುರಿತಾದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಉತ್ತರ ಹುಡುಕತೊಡಗುತ್ತಾರೆ.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff

Screenplay :

Pirkko Saisio

Director of Photography :

Max Smed

Editor :

Samu Heikkilä

Music :

Sanna Salmenkallio, Ellias Salmenka

Sound :

Jan Alvermark

Cast :

Alma Pöysti, Pirkko Saisio, Luca Leino, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Mikko Kauppila, Tambek Tuisk

Awards - Winner :

Septimius Awards (Best Cinematography, Best European Actress - Alma Pöysti)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

Rotterdam IFF (World Premiere, Big Screen Competition), Göteborg FF (Best Nordic Film), Tampere FF (Opening Film)

Pirjo Honkasalo (b. 1947, Helsinki) is a Finnish director, cinematographer and screenwriter who studied cinematography in Helsinki and at Temple University after working as a photojournalist. A pioneering woman cinematographer, she continues to shoot her own documentaries. Her filmography includes FLAME TOP (1980), DA CAPO (1985), MYSTERION (1991), ATMAN (1997), FIRE EATER (1998), THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA (2004) and CONCRETE NIGHT (2013). Her work moves between fiction and documentary with visual rigor and emotional restraint. Her fifty year career has been honored with more than thirty retrospectives and major prizes at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, IDFA, & Sundance.

  1. 1. DJ AHMET
  2. 2. SENTIMENTAL VALUE
  3. 3. SOUND OF FALLING
  4. 4. MY FATHER'S SHADOW
  5. 5. NO OTHER CHOICE
  6. 6. WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM
  7. 7. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
  8. 8. RESURRECTION
  9. 9. A POET
  10. 10. MAGELLAN
  11. 11. SIRĀT
  12. 12. FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
  13. 13. THE MASTERMIND
  14. 14. LATE SHIFT
  15. 15. AMRUM
  16. 16. CASE 137
  17. 17. SKIN OF YOUTH
  18. 18. WE BELIEVE YOU
  19. 19. BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD
  20. 20. FATHER
  21. 21. MORTICIAN
  22. 22. TO THE VICTORY!
  23. 23. DREAMS
  24. 24. THE BLUE TRAIL
  25. 25. MOTHERTONGUE
  26. 26. A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
  27. 27. FIUME O MORTE!
  28. 28. THE THINGS YOU KILL
  29. 29. YOUNG MOTHERS
  30. 30. THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO
  31. 31. CATANE
  32. 32. PROMISED SKY
  33. 33. CHRISTY
  34. 34. I ONLY REST IN THE STORM
  35. 35. THE PUPIL
  36. 36. COMANDANTE FRITZ
  37. 37. IMPATIENCE OF THE HEART
  38. 38. STRAIGHT CIRCLE
  39. 39. DRY LEAF
  40. 40. A USEFUL GHOST
  41. 41. SLEEPLESS CITY
  42. 42. OUTCRY
  43. 43. MY UNCLE JENS
  44. 44. THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
  45. 45. KONTINENTAL '25
  46. 46. JANINE MOVES TO THE COUNTRY
  47. 47. DIVINE COMEDY
  48. 48. A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT
  49. 49. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE
  50. 50. GOD WILL NOT HELP
  51. 51. TÊTES BRÛLÉES
  52. 52. REEDLAND
  53. 53. DEAD DOG
  54. 54. NINO
  55. 55. BEFORE THE BODY
  56. 56. LOVE ME TENDER
  57. 57. THE LAST AMBASSADOR
  58. 58. CARAVAN
  59. 59. WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU
  60. 60. AS WE BREATHE
  61. 61. TALES OF THE WOUNDED LAND
  62. 62. HALF MOON
  63. 63. THE PORTUGUESE HOUSE
  64. 64. FOLLIES
  65. 65. THE DEVIL SMOKES
  66. 66. VANILLA
  67. 67. BLUE HERON
  68. 68. KOKORAS
  69. 69. DRAGONFLY
  70. 70. KIKA
  71. 71. MAYSOON
  72. 72. BEACHCOMBER
  73. 73. WIND, TALK TO ME
  74. 74. BROKEN VOICES
  75. 75. RENOVATION
  76. 76. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
  77. 77. HUMAN RESOURCE
  78. 78. NOMAD SHADOW
  79. 79. THE DREAMED ONES
  80. 80. TWO PROSECUTORS
  81. 81. CLOISTERED SISTER
  82. 82. ORENDA
  83. 83. DE TAL PALO
  84. 84. MILITANTROPOS
  85. 85. RIVERSTONE
  86. 86. OSLO: A TAIL OF PROMISE
  87. 87. MAHIMA
  88. 88. BELÉN