The Other Side of Hope



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Alternate/Foreign Title: Toivon tuolla puolen [Original title]

DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2018-05-15

Genre: Foreign

Sub-genre: Drama

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Stars: Ville Virtanen, Dome Karukoski, Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela, Tommi Eronen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Niroz Haji, Jörn Donner, Matti Onnismaa, Janne Hyytiäinen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Elina Knihtilä, Taneli Mäkelä

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Synopsis: This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a clear-eyed response to the current refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Displaced Syrian Khaled (Sherwan Haji) lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves behind his wife and job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable seafood restaurant. After Khaled is denied asylum, he decides not to return to Aleppo--and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director's work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them played by members of Kaurismäki's ever-reliable stock company), The Other Side of Hope is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference.     Source: RottenTomatoes.com


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