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Savupiippu (White Chimney )

Jani Peltonen
24' / 2014 / Finland
Finnsih
English and spanish subtitled

Audience vote 6.5

Everlasting summer. Everlasting youth. The utopia of the new human. The park forest of Aulanko has always been the place where you can see the prevailing ideas and styles. In 1938 functionalist Hotel Aulanko opened its doors. In the late summer of 1939, only a month before the Second World War erupted, a party arrived at the hotel. One of the members of the party was nineteen-year-old up-and-coming actress Sirkka Sari. What happened to her? What happened to us?

Main Festivals & Awards

Cinema Verite Iran IDFF – Tehran, Iran, 2014 (Best Short Film)
Visions du Réel – Nyon, Switzerland, 2014 / Helsinki International Film Festival – Finland, 2014 / Nordic Film Days – Lübeck, Germany, 2014 / Escales Documentaires – La Rochelle, France, 2014 / True/False Film Fest – Columbia, USA, 2015 / Full Frame Documentary Film Festival – Durham, USA, 2015 / IndieLisboa – Portugal, 2015

Director's Biography

Jani Peltonen gratuated from Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design, Film and Television Department in 2008. His thesis film was documentary The Great Mill. Since then he had been working in the Finnish film industry in several duties. A Tall Man was his professional debut as a director. The films was screened in several international film festivals (Visions du Réel, Karlovy Vary IFF,Era New Horizons, Melbourne IFF…). At 2012 he participated to Berlinale Talent Campus. His latest film is called White Chimney.