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Overseas and Under Your Skin
3.8 / 10• 2009• 1h 26m•NR• Finnish
DramaComedy
Storyline
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
Cast & Crew
Amira Khalifa
Ida
Lead
Marja Packalén
Kati
LU
Leena Uotila
Pipsa
Matti Ristinen
Ville
Jarkko Niemi
Jore
Tomi Salmela
Haastattelija
AH
Alf Hemming
Haastattelija
MS
Margit Suonperä
Sihteeri
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Lenka Hellstedt's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Overseas and Under Your Skin is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
