The Finnish film won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday night.
A blind man who did not want to see the Titanic directed Teemu Nikki. It stars Petri Poikolainen as a blind man in a wheelchair traveling alone to visit the woman of his dreams.
The Armani Beauty Audience Award is a new award given in the Orizzonti Extra (Horizons Extra) category of the Venice Festival.
The 82-minute film tells the story of a blind man in a wheelchair who travels alone to visit the woman of his dreams.
The film was still in production last year and won the Eurimages Lab Project Award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.
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The film marks the return of the Boy, 46 years old. After graduating from Uniarts Helsinki Theater Academy in 2000, he had a successful acting career before becoming blind and partially paralyzed by multiple sclerosis about eight years ago.
A blind man is Niki’s second feature film after Dark Drama 2017 Euthanizer, which was Finland’s nominee for the 2018 Oscar for Foreign Languages.
The film, which was shot in the Tampere-Nokia area, was opened in Finnish cinemas on Saturday and premiered in Italy and elsewhere.
Source: The Nordic Page