Director Miia Tervo's dramatic comedy about a Soviet missile strike upending life in a Finnish village won the top award at the annual industry event.
Miia Tervo’s “The Missile,” an absurdist dramatic comedy based on the real-life story of a Soviet missile landing in Finnish Lapland in 1984, took home the top prize Thursday at the, an annual industry event running parallel to the Helsinki International Film Festival — Love & Anarchy.
“I wanted to write a fragile and insecure woman,” she said. “I didn’t want to have this superwoman. She’s very strong. She finds the strength inside her, but these things are also really scary.” Tervo described her protagonist “as a proactive hero in the midst of these men’s war games,” but also as a woman who is curious and funny and “has a chance to prove — mainly to herself — that she is capable.
The jury noted in its citation: “This film has a distinctive but universal approach into the division of labor in modern relationships. It’s a compelling story with impressive potential to reach audiences around the world.”
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