Movies by Miia Tervo

Santra and the Talking Trees

Santra and the Talking Trees

Fate brings a young woman to idyllic Karelia in Russia, near the Russian-Finnish border. She meets an old woman, Santra, who represents the only remaining link to the Karelian culture of her ancestors. This film is about the difficulty and beauty of finding a home.

The Missile

The Missile

Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina, a single mother, is fired from her job in a bakery and drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border.

Little Snow Animal

Little Snow Animal

Teenage girl looks for love but doesn't know where to find it.