Jarkko Niemi

Shortly after their engagement, Veera asks Sakari for help on a shocking scheme related to her estranged father. At first thinking he'll do everything he can to stop her, Sakari soon finds himself confronting choices he never thought hed face.

A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce. Mikael Buch's Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Ruben (Nicolas Maury, Regular Lovers), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. Just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers quarrel exile the heartbroken Ruben back to Paris and back to his zany family including Almodóvar goddess Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver) as his ditzy mum, and Jean-François Stévenin as his lothario father. Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned art house auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs), Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes with wit, gusto and style to spare. The result is deeply heartwarming, fabulously kitschy and hysterically fun.

Stigu and Ella have a sexual relationship. Stigu, secretly in love, settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in the same work project – designing an advert for the Family Federation on sustainable relationships. It seems like mission impossible since Ella doesn’t believe in the whole concept and Stigu knows nothing about it. But on a journey, anything’s possible, and as they delve into the secrets of relationships, Ella and Stigu venture into Finnish summer at its most beautiful, a place where men and women come show their worth: The Wife Carrying Contest in the Savonian heartlands. Time is running short, and Stigu goes too far in his endeavour to win Ella over.