19.00 The Visitor / Muukalainen
A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.
directed by: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää; screenplay: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää and Jan Forsström
cast: Vitalij Bobrov, Pavel Liska, Emilia Ikäheimo, Jorma Tommila
photography: Tuomo Hutri; music: Helena Tulve
Film Awards: Goeteborgh, Jussi

21.00 Letters to Father Jacob / Postia pappi Jaakobille
Letters to Father Jacob is a warm-hearted and touching story of Leila, a life sentence prisoner who has just been pardoned. When she is released from prison, she is offered a job at a secluded parsonage; she moves there against her will. Leila is used to taking care only of herself, so she experiences conflicting feelings when she starts working as the personal assistant for Jacob, the blind pastor living in the parsonage.
Every day the mail man brings letters from people asking for help from pastor Jacob. Answering the letters is Jacob´s life mission, while Leila thinks it´s useless.
Leila has already decided to leave the parsonage when the letters suddenly stop coming. Jacob´s life is shaken to its foundation. Two completely different lives are intertwined unexpectedly, and the roles of the helper and the one being helped are turned upside down.

directed and screenplay : Klaus Härö
cast: Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiainen, Jukka Keinonen; photography: Tuomo Hutri; music; Dan Strömbäck
Film Awards: Cairo, Meinheim, Libek, Tallin, Santa Barbara, Rouan, Goetebourgh, Jussi