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On the Tenderness of Men

Minou Norouzi

Synopsis

A work of speculative cinematic writing, the film is about war and displacement, architecture and place-making. It tells the fragmented biography of the so-called Rock Church, an iconic building in Helsinki and its architects who were excluded from the canon of Finnish modernism. The architects' personal history of displacement due to the Finnish Winter War of 1939 and Soviet occupation is braided with the war on present-day Gaza.
Past and present histories, temporalities and geographies fold into, and over one another collapsing time, place and identities narratively to consider, in the gentlest of tones, the impact of atrocities on contemporary lifeworlds.

Details

Year: 2024
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 21 min
Format: HD
Director: Minou Norouzi
Producer: Minou Norouzi
Composer: Antti Kytömäki, Cameron Randall, Iiro Komulainen

Genre

Experimental Human Rights Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ad Lumina Production

50 Morieux Road
London
E10 7LL

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