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F I N N I S H F E A T U R E F I L M S 2 0 1 2 | C H I L D R E N & Y O U T H
4
35mm, Digital Copy | 1:2,35
cinema scope | Dolby Digital | 90’ |
Released: September 9, 2011
Director: Ulrika Bengts
Script: Annina Enckell
Cinematography: Robert Nordström
Editing: Tuomo Leino
Sound design: Risto Iissalo
Music: Peter Hägerstrand
Set design: Katarina Lume,
Cian Bornebunch
Costumes: Riitta Peteri
Cast: Agnes Koskinen, Maria Salomaa,
Tobias Zilliacus, Marika Parkkomäki,
Magnus Krepper, Emmi Pesonen
Producer: Mats Långbacka
Production company:
Långfi lm Productions Finland Oy
Co-Producers: Jon Lindström /
Street Movies Ab (Sweden)
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, Swedish
Cultural Foundation in Finland,
Konstsamfundet, Swedish Film Institut
Financing TV company: YLE FST5
Distributor in Finland: Sandrew
Metronome Distribution Finland Oy
International sales: Oy Interprod Ab
Iris
The year is 1890. 8-year-old Iris lives in Stockholm with her artist mother, Ester. Precocious
and experienced in the ways of the world, Iris feels at home among her mother’s modern artist
friends. Now she is waiting for the big adventure to begin; Ester’s exhibition in Paris.
On the day of the departure, Iris is shocked to learn that she will not be going to Paris. When
her proposed caregivers are unable to look after her as planned, she is sent by mail aboard a
boat to Åland; a place she knows nothing about, but where she will learn to know her roots and
fi nd the childhood she’s never had.
Ulrika Bengts
Ulrika Bengts (b. 1962) is a Finnish
fi lm and theater director. She is a
graduate of the Swedish Film School
(Dramatiska Institutet) in Stockholm
and has directed over 20 short fi lms,
television-series and documentaries.
Iris is her fi rst feature fi lm and one
of the fi rst Swedish spoken children’s
movies ever made in Finland.
DEBUT