Blue Boy
Blue Boy
documentary, Finland 2004, 74 min
Unspoken past. Dad who tried to be both the father and the mother. How to build a family portrait if both the pictures and the narrators are scarce? Blue Boy is delicate and at times tragicomic self image of a filmmaker who wishes to get to know his mother who died young. This way he also hopes to find out more about himself. Alongside, we see a story of the director?s life with his own partner, and how his father deals with that. Heikkinen, who has had a long career in YLE, evenly uses old photos, interviews and material from television archives in his work.
Blue Boy is the director?s diploma work in cinematic arts, from university of art and design. It has also been shown e.g. at Tampere Film Festival 2004 and the rights have been sold to YLE.
Sari Miettinen
director: Markku Heikkinen
actors:
language: suomi
subtitles: english
format: video
Screenings:
| Turku | ||
| Sat Nov 13 | 18:00 | Thalia 3 |
| Helsinki | ||
| Sun Nov 21 | 18:00 | Andorra 1 |