Movies
Susanna Helke
Ruthless Times: Songs of Care (Armotonta menoa - hoivatyön lauluja)
Finland 2022
92 min •
Finnish
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Theme: Humanity
20.11.2022 | Time 13:00
| Venue: Tapio 3
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Powerfully cinematic piece of activism
A choir of tired nurses sing to Anna-Mari Kähärä’s hypnotic tunes about the truths of everyday nursing work in a musical documentary directed by Susanna Helke.
Songs of Care is a documentary film with choral tableaus juxtaposed with documentary episodes. With its dark humor and poignant moments, it captures the experiences of those working in the field of healthcare: a care worker blacklisted for revealing malpractices in her unit, the retirees of a remote municipality witnessing the privatization of their care services, robots roaming the halls of care homes
It is a cinematic-musical work of activism, calling for more humane work, life and old age.
