A Scrap, the Moonshiners and a Rocket. Juho Kuosmanen presented his silent trilogy at KVIFF

Renowned Finnish director Juho Kuosmanenwinner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes for The happiest day of Olli Mäki’s life and the Cannes Grand Prix for Compartment no. 6. , returns to Karlovy Vary. At this year’s KVIFF, he presents three black-and-white short films screened together under the title Silent trilogy.

“I love silent films and watch them often“, said the director during a discussion with the audience at the Čas cinema. The first short film, Scrap-Mattila and the beautiful womanwas shot in 2012 with an old 16mm mechanical camera from the 1950s. The 2017 farce The Moonshiners is a remake of the first Finnish feature film from 1907. The third short film, A distant planet, Kuosmanen did last year. “I wanted to make a space film”, he remarked about the story of a lighthouse keeper who builds a rocket to find her brother.

During the discussion, he revealed that the initial scenario of A distant planet was different. “But once we finished filming, we realized that the film didn’t make sense. So we rewrote the script. In the film, the actors say words other than those in the subtitles.», the director alluded to the advantages of silent cinema. In making the silent trilogy, he also overcame the fear that no one else would share his tastes. “I realized that other people can actually enjoy things that I find funny” Kuosmanen said.