TELL EVERYONE / KERRO KAIKILLE / РОЗКАЖІТЬ УСІМ

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2026 / 112' / feature / Finland

A free spirited young woman in 19th century Finland arrives at a women’s isolated Island, a destination for troublesome females. With her freedom taken away, she must adjust to a new life in confinement and after numerous failed attempts to escape, she eventually resigns herself to her fate. She even forms close bonds with the other patients, and falls in love with a local fisherman, but the divide between patients and local islanders is not traversable and all seems to lead to a tragic end.

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DIRECTOR - ALLI HAAPASALO

Biography

Alli Haapasalo is a Finnish director and writer. Her third feature film Girl Picture (2022) won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival and was in competition at the Berlin Film Festival and awarded at many others. Girl Picture received four Finnish Film Awards; best film, best director, best screenplay and best editing in 2023. It is Haapasalo’s passion to tell strong female driven stories. Her feature debut Love and Fury (2016) and collectively made Force of Habit (2019), written and directed by seven writer-directors, both brought complex female characters front and center, and gave voice to underrepresented topics and themes, such as gender bias and structural misuse of power. Haapasalo has an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, as well as a BA from Aalto University’s School of Film, Television and Scenography. She was awarded the Finland Award in 2022 and the Nordisk Film Award in 2020.