Screening of the documentary film "Two Hours to Happiness" on April 27, at 14.15

The documentary film "Two Hours to Happiness" will be screened on Wednesday, April 27th, at 2.15 pm (Ülikooli 16-212). Film is with English subtitles.  Q&A after the screening with Moonika Siimets, the director of the film.

"Two Hours to Happiness"
Director: Moonika Siimets
Cinematographer: Rein Kotov
Produced by Amrion Ltd., 2022
Length: 1 h 14 min
With English subtitles

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. Moonika Siimets’s new documentary film "2 Hours to Happiness" speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.

Film was made in the framework of the reserach project Inequalities in Motion: Transnational Families in Estonia and Finland.

Trailer of the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMir0wpD0hE

Information: Pihla Maria Siim pihla.siim@ut.ee

Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore