Saara Saarela

The secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. How long can he continue to run the family business? And how does he tell his kids that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots. Mother Mirjami, meanwhile, has financial problems and doesn't want to trouble the others with them. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)

In this dystopian literary adaptation, a courageous young woman fights for fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, an area that has dried up due to environmental disaster and a repressive military government. (imdb)