AURORA

by Miia Tervo (Finlande, 2019, 1h45, vostf)

starring Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola, Hannu-Pekka Björman

One evening, somewhere in Finnish Lapland, in a fast-food joint a free-spirited and devil-may-care girl, Aurora, meets Darian, an Iranian immigrant. He asks her to marry him so that he can obtain asylum in Finland for himself and his daughter. Aurora refuses but nevertheless agrees to help him find his future wife. With the risk that this sudden complicity will turn into love, something she really does not want.