In the Same Boat

Mervi Junkkonen, Mia Malviniemi

Mia Malviniemi, Mervi Junkkonen

Finland

Finnish

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Mervi Junkkonen Director
Mia Malviniemi Director
Mervi Junkkonen Writer
Mia Malviniemi Writer
Mia Malviniemi Producer
Mervi Junkkonen Producer
Nanna Rahikainen Key Cast
Rauno Männistö Key Cast
Antti Paalanen Music
Stefan Backas Sound
Mia Malviniemi Choreography

A film about the limits of the body and the boundless mind. With the help of a dancer, one of Rauno's childhood memories comes to life through dance and movement. It’s a journey of misadventures and his father's new national cursing record.

Mervi Junkkonen (born 1975) is a Finnish documentary filmmaker and film editor based in Uppsala, Sweden. She studied film at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Her debut film as a director was Barbeiros (2001), which won the First Appearance prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2002. She has directed several award winning documentary films and worked as an editor on numerous documentary and fiction films. Mervi has received the Jussi Prize (the Finnish "Oscar") for her editing of the feature films The Visitor (2009), They Have Escaped (2014) and Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019), respectively. In recent years she has also begun working with video art and dance films.

Finnish choreographer Mia Malviniemi (MA) has been working with dance art since 1996, when she graduated as a choreographer from the dance department of the Theatre Academy in Finland.
She has produced tens of dance pieces during her career and has also worked with theatre, opera and
contemporary circus. Malviniemi is one of the founding members of the dance group Malviniemi Company, of which she acts as
artistic director.