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Friday, Oct 11, 2019
5:30 PM (105 mins)
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BAMPFA
CANCELED—Aurora
This screening has been canceled due to the UC Berkeley campus power shutdown. If you have purchased tickets online for a Mill Valley Film Festival screening via the MVFF website, please call 415.383.5256 or contact info@cafilm.org for information on refunds. Note: If you purchased in person at BAMPFA, please email bampfa@berkeley.edu or call 510.642.1412 during regular business hours.
In Person
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Miia Tervo will be unable to attend this screening in person as originally announced.
Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola, Hannu-Pekka Björkman,
Hard-partying, commitment-phobic nail technician Aurora is true to her name: at once luminous and dark, beautiful and bound to burn out quickly. She pinballs through life in icy Lapland without a plan more concrete than moving to Norway to administer colonics, bouncing from karaoke bar to dance party to friends’ couches and back again, and getting ejected from a strip club for trying to incite a feminist riot. Then, in an unorthodox romcom twist, she meets not-so-cute with Iranian asylum seeker Darian and discovers her purpose: to find him a wife so he can stay in Finland with his young daughter. Meanwhile, soulful Darian starts to assimilate to his new surroundings, including a few hilarious attempts at mastering the Finnish culture of sauna bathing. But will he settle for a fake spouse and stop running for his life, and will Aurora keep running away from herself? Winner of Best International Feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Miia Tervo
Cinematographer
- Arsen Sarkisiants
Language
- Finnish
- English
- Farsi
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 105 mins