Competition Winner: Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, Avarya
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Supporting film: Winner Fantastic Shorts
AVARYA
Director: Gökalp Gönen
After the accidental death of his wife, the now single father Juha bilges and decays up to the point when he happens to stumble into domina Mona’s torture cellar, who in turn thinks he is one of her clients with a fetish for suffocation. In his near death experience he feels so close to his deceased love that he convinces Mona to go to ever increasing extremes of cutting his air supply. J-P Valkeapää’s BDSM love story is one of the most surprising and challenging films of the year: one that hurts so much sometimes that all you want to do is to scream, but also one that makes you so happy in the end that all you want to do is cry out of joy. And it is an ode to pain as an existential feeling that can open up new doors of perception. Fantastic!
(*1977) is a critically acclaimed and awarded Finnish film director. His debut feature The Visitor (2008) premiered at Venice International Film Festival and his second feature They Have Escaped (2014) at Venice and Toronto. The film won four Finnish National Jussi Awards, including Best Film and Best Direction. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants premiered at the Midnight Sun Film Festival 2019.
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