The Squirrel
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In a future without nature or animals, Pasi, a lonely, kind-hearted synthetic animal designer accidentally discovers the last living squirrel in the world. Pasi decides to defy the rules and help the squirrel, but things don’t go quite as Pasi had planned – the squirrel becomes depressed, and Pasi falls in love.
DIRECTOR: Markus Lehmusruusu
SCRIPTWRITER: Markus Lehmusruusu
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Max Smeds
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Michael Randel
COSTUME DESIGN: Teresa Grosser
MAKE-UP DESIGN: Pur Thijs
EDITING: Florian Miosge
SOUND: Ranko Paukovic
CAST: Miro Lopperi, Mimosa Willamo, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Pirjo Heikkilä, Roderick Kabanga, Pirjo Lonka, Eero Ritala
CO-PRODUCERS: Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel (Pallas Film, Germany), Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts (Volya Films, The Netherlands), Ronny Fritsche, Lizette Jonjic (Zentropa Sweden)
PRODUCERS: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Bufo
SALES: REinvent International Sales
Director
Markus Lehmusruusu
Screenwriter and director Markus Lehmusruusu (b. 1983) works on high concept stories that deal with the pain and humour of the human experience. Since graduating from his film directing studies at the Aalto University in 2015, he has directed several popular TV series such as the family drama Kakarat (2019–2022), the folkloristic mystery Lovi (2021) and the police drama Roba (2021) as well as award-winning short films and commercials.
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