Getaways & Dreams

Getaways & Dreams is a story about encounters, collisions and awakenings taking place during one summer day on a road and its nearby surroundings. The film’s theme is in the attempt to understand and accept life’s inevitability in its many different forms and it is explored through nine characters, an eccentric hitchhiker and one dog on the loose.
 
All of the characters struggle with their own challenging life situations, and in their individual ways try to survive either by escaping life or dreaming about another existence. Only when forced to face their greatest fears, do they wake up to realise how unpredictable life is and to welcome change with a new kind of ease, even hope. Getaways & Dreams is a balanced mixture of tragi-comedy and elevated realism introducing a rich, plentiful world with a wacky gallery of portraits, calmness and poetry.
 
International premiere: Warsaw Film Festival / Competition 1–2 2023
 
DIRECTOR: Kaisa El Ramly
SCRIPT: Kaisa El Ramly
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Päivi Kettunen
PODUCTION DESIGN: Nanna Hirvonen
COSTUME DESIGN: Roosa Marttiini
MAKE-UP DESIGN: Mari Vaalasranta
SOUND DESIGN: Lotta Mäki
EDITOR: Erika Gonzales
COMPOSER: Hans Appelqvist
CAST: Sari Mällinen, Erja Manto, Aliisa Pulkkinen, Dick Idman, Lasse Karkjärvi, Robert Enckell, Jarkko Pajunen, Hannu Kivioja, Ingela Olsson, Erkki Saarela
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: LÄSK
PRODUCERS: Erik Andersson, Klaus Heydemann
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Inland Film Company