A pokerplaying restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to finland. Dec 01, 2017 the other side of hope is a deeply humane film, as well as a quietly hilarious one. The other side of hope was highly acclaimed upon release. Dec 01, 2017 syrian refugee khlaed sherwan haji seeks asylum in finland, only to get lost in a maze of functionaries and bureaucracies in aki kaurismakis gently comic, politically urgent fable, the first great fiction film about the 21st century migrant crisis. May 25, 2017 the other side of hope may be lowkey and take place in a semiimaginary helsinki or some other finnish port town where the locale is decidedly retro but it is entertaining and sophisticated.
Toivon tuolla puolen is a finnish comedydrama film written, produced and directed by aki kaurismaki. Step into the world of the other side of hope, where the world as you know it is turned on its head. The other side of hope win tix with this film, i try to do my best to shatter the european way of only seeing refugees as either pitiful victims or arrogant economic immigrants invading our societies merely to steal our jobs, our wives, our homes and our cars. The other side of hope janus films trailer youtube. The happy land of equality, tolerance and acceptance is not all it seems. Almost 30 years later, the other side of hope certainly hasnt forgotten its roots but this is a significantly more mature work by a director at the top of his game. German words for hope include hoffnung, hoffen, hoffnungs, erhoffe and hoffe. The other side of hope toivon tuolla puolen 2017 rotten. Khaled sherwan haji emerges from a pile of coal on a ship docked in helsinki. The first is khaled, played by sherwan haji, a syrian refugee who is desperate to find asylum in europe.
Because its set in his native finland, i suppose this picture has more of what ill call akian tropes than le havre did. Khaled, syrian refugee stows away on a freighter to helsinki. At once honest and artful, a touching and clearsighted declaration of faith in people and in movies. A refugee from syria, searching for the sister who is his only surviving relative, he is quickly absorbed into the bureaucracy of exile. The other side of hope 2017 yify download movie torrent. The other side of hope official trailer, suomi deutsch, francais. Feb 14, 2017 the englishlanguage title the other side of hope, taken literally, suggests despair and dejection. Watch the other side of hope prime video amazon uk. The other side of hope has the stately pace and graceful precision of a movie from the 1930s, and democratic, antiauthoritarian politics that also evoke that era. Aki kaurismaki delves into the subject matter of the syrian refugee crisis, and erm, the restaurant business, in this extremely funny new comedy drama. A syrian asylum seeker finds friendship with a hapless finnish restaurateur in part two of aki kaurismakis. Critics pick at the new york times this film will screen on friday, december 1, 2017. As deadpan as the best of the directors work, and with a deep well of empathy for its downbutnotout characters many of them played by members of kaurismakis loyal stock company, the other side of hope is a bittersweet celebration of pockets of human kindness in an unwelcoming world.
Meanwhile, wikstrom is a traveling salesman who wins big at a poker table and. Sherwan haji khaled, nuppu koivu mirja, janne hyytiainen nyrhinen, sakari kuosmanen wikstrom, ilkka. The humor in the other side of hope doesnt necessarily emerge from jokes sometimes its just a wellplaced shot of a dog but it shows how human kindness rarely takes the form of grandiose. This wry, melancholic comedy from aki kaurismaki, a cleareyed response to the current refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. One of its protagonists, wikstrom, drives around in a sleek, oversized black car of a vintage unknown to me, in keeping with the directors insistence.
Watch online full moviethe other side of hope 2017 lyric. The other side of hope 12a a pokerplaying restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to finland. The other side of hope was released in the united states on 1 december 2017. The official showtimes destination brought to you by curzon artificial eye. A novel in which islam is the dominant political force in the world and christianity is the religion of outcasts and rebels. It is rare, but i know, it can happen, as if it is a miracle, or grace. Young syrian refugee khaled sherwan haji shows up at a helsinki port after narrowly escaping wartorn aleppo by stowing away on a freighter. Having been one of the most wellreceived films at the berlinale earlier this year, finnish director aki kaurismaki returns with the other side of hope, which carries a droll scandinavian wit. Yes, the other side of hope goes to some dark places, but the racist element of finland is represented in the most cliched of ways, with khaled attacked by skinhead thugs who appear to have escaped from the pages of the beano. This movie tell story about in the other side of hope, syrian refugee khaled stows away on a freighter to helsinki. Finnish auteur aki kaurismakis unworldly drollery, unchanged across 20 films since 1983, feels like its from another timeuntil its ruptured by the shocking contemporaneity of.
The other side of hope in finland is hypocrisy, says aki. The film was produced by kaurismakis finnish company sputnik. Aki kaurismaki was directed this movie and starring by sakari kuosmanen. I have been living long enough to know that, sometimes we suddenly encounter a chance to sense the true meaning of an incident weve experienced after a long time have passed since that occurred. Following the template of 2011s le havre, the other side of hope opens with the arrival of syrian refugee khaled sherwan haji on the industrial, bluegray shores of helsinki. The new film by aki kaurismaki tells the story of a finnish travelling salesman sakari kuosmanen and a syrian refugee sherwan haji crossing paths. In kaurismakis helsinki, the locals are either murderous nazis or angelic white saviours. Gradually a serious running battle unfurled between the slobbering chorus of the all too liberal papers and those in favour of the sisters, with furious accusations of the sisters alleged misdemeanours on the one side and passionate vindications of their innocence on the other side, both pelting each other with reproaches, imputations, etc. With ville virtanen, dome karukoski, tommi korpela, kati outinen. Finlands master of deadpan comedy, aki kaurismaki lights in the dusk, le havre, returns with the story of an unlikely friendship between a syrian asylum seeker and an elderly finnish restaurant owner. But even with the potentially bleak fatefulness of its open ending, its difficult to imagine. How to say hope in german thesaurus and word tools. There is a quaintness to the other side of hope that doesnt just have to do with the typewriters and retro jukeboxes that furnish its spare mise en scene. His humane comedy, with its air of unworldly absurdity, has absorbed this idea, but not undermined its seriousness in any way, in fact embraced it with almost miraculous ease and simplicity.
Im still waiting wide awake for the waves to come and take take me right to you one hundred vials of denial i know they wont bring you back what am. In december 2016, it was selected to play in competition at the 67th berlin international film festival. Jan 11, 2018 as deadpan as the best of the directors work, and with a deep well of empathy for its downbutnotout characters many of them played by members of kaurismakis everreliable stock company, the other side of hope is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference. The film follows syrian refugee khaled sherwan haji after he emerges, blackened, from a pile of coal on a ship docked in helsinki, finland. Infused with a wry sense of humour delivered with the straightest of poker faces, this film is full of some rousing chuckles. I guess were getting used to losing hope guess were losing hope i dont even wonder why you dont answer when i call your name are you on the other side. The other side of hope 2017 directed by aki kaurismaki. The other side of hope clip drink sake and dance hula hula duration.
Khaled sherwan haji, a displaced syrian, lands in helsinki as a stowaway. The other side of hope official trailer, suomi deutsch. The other side of hope is a deeply humane film, as well as a quietly hilarious one. Dave calhoun time out this is a world that reeks of cigarette smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always in the work of finlands maestro of droll melancholy, the perfume that lingers longest is empathy. This wry, melancholic comedy from aki kaurismaki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Nov 30, 2017 the other side of hope has the stately pace and graceful precision of a movie from the 1930s, and democratic, antiauthoritarian politics that also evoke that era. The other side of hope, the new film by finnish director aki kaurismaki, is about two ostensibly very different men.
The other side of hope is a movie genre comedy, was released in february 3, 2017. The englishlanguage title the other side of hope, taken literally, suggests despair and dejection. Toivon tuolla puolen, englischsprachiger festivaltitel. Starring sherwan haji, sakari kuosmanen, janne hyytiainen, simon albazoon, nuppu koivu, ilkka koivula. This novel the other side of hope is the story about that kind of hope.
Jan 05, 2018 the other side of hope 2017, nr, 98 min. As deadpan as the best of the directors work, and with a deep well of empathy for its downbutnotout characters many of them played by members of kaurismakis loyal stock company, the other side of hope is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference. The other side of hope 2017 the criterion collection. The paths of a syrian refugee and a finnish travelling salesman cross in the asphalt jungle called helsinki. The other side of hope mary riepma ross media arts center. Six years later, we get the other side of hope 2017, a film with a timely political message once again telling the story of a refugee encountering a european local.
The other side of hope lays bare the administrative obstacles encountered by migrants seeking asylum far from the conflicts that displace them. Sep 05, 2014 the other side of hope is a movie genre comedy, was released in february 3, 2017. The story is about a finnish businessman who meets a syrian asylumseeker looking for. Search for screenings showtimes and book tickets for the other side of hope.
The other side of hope book tickets at everyman cinema. Displaced syrian khaled sherwan haji lands in helsinki as a stowaway. View hd trailers and videos for the other side of hope toivon tuolla puolen on rotten tomatoes, then check our tomatometer to find out what the critics say. Feb 14, 2017 kaurismakis the other side of hope builds on the minuscule changes present in his 2011 film, le havre, which concerned an ageing shoe shiner who shelters a young african migrant on the run.
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