Following the Venice Film Festival premiere of her Biennale School Cinema title “Palimpsest” – about two people who begin to age backwards – Finnish helmer Hanna Västinsalo will proceed to play with sci-fi components in “House Hobos: Bum a Trip from Sector B12 to Module C9.” 

“It’s about employees like plumbers, welders or cleaners, attempting to make their manner on the planet of house journey,” Västinsalo explains to Selection in Italy. 

“The core of the story is drawn from my very own expertise of being a ravenous artist and attempting to make it. Not all the time understanding the best way to pay lease or having cash to purchase groceries.”

Västinsalo can also be eyeing longer codecs, creating “Heaven”: a sequence a couple of nun who, after being estranged from her father, inherits his male brothel.

“I might like to discover the world that revolves round feminine pleasure and the bonds of a household that finally ends up working collectively, regardless of their totally different beliefs,” she provides. 

“What unifies these two tasks is my want to shake individuals’s preconceived notions, whereas additionally providing them a second of escapism. The exact same manner ‘Star Wars’ and ‘X-Males’ comics supplied a teen from the Finnish countryside with an area to dream.”

Västinsalo, who beforehand confirmed “Man Below Bridge” at Venice VR Expanded, studied directing on the American Movie Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles. She additionally holds a PhD in molecular genetics, along with her science background offering her with a singular perspective.

“I don’t like to speak about myself, which could be very Finnish, however perhaps I can convey some actuality to those tales. Science doesn’t all the time occur in impossibly shiny labs. It occurs in some basement, with individuals speaking about what’s for lunch,” she laughs.

Her aged protagonists in “Palimpsest,” chosen for a gene remedy trial, slowly begin to de-age. However they react very in another way to the change. Whereas Juhani focuses on a childhood dream that beforehand eluded him, Tellu can’t cease, turning into youthful and youthful.  

“If you’re collaborating in a medical trial, you don’t essentially know all the small print. They’re advised it will remedy their sicknesses after which there’s this aspect impact. I needed the viewers to know as a lot as they do, which is nearly nothing.”

Riitta Havukainen, Emma Kilpimaa, “Beforeigners” star Krista Kosonen, Kaisu Mäkelä, Leo Sjöman and Antti Virmavirta star. 

“All of us have a clock in our genes. The concept of manipulating it has been round for many years and it’d change into our actuality someday. However when you could be given an opportunity to change into an adolescent once more, what would you do?,” wonders Västinsalo. 

“There was this 80-year-old man I used to know. He led a really non-scientific life, however he all the time talked concerning the stars. Juhani additionally finds an previous dream he begins to chase. Tullu doesn’t know the best way to let go of her previous.”

She desires the viewers to narrate to their struggles, she says. 

“They’re simply attempting to do their finest. All of us are.”

“All of us carry one thing we might quite overlook. She thinks that if she simply will get a bit youthful, perhaps she’s going to lastly get a recent begin. However it’s not that easy.” 

Whereas Juhani and Tullu should not romantically concerned, Västinsalo nonetheless sees the movie as “an unconventional love story.” With the 2 turning into one another’s household after others, together with their very own youngsters, don’t all the time embrace the change. 

“Simply give it some thought. In case your dad and mom or grandparents would simply present up someday, again of their 20s, how would you’re feeling? It’s a shock to your system,” she provides. Noting that the movie’s “bizarre idea,” or the shortage of a transparent target market, made it a lot tougher to finance. 

“If it wasn’t for the Biennale School, I don’t know if I might get funding anyplace else. Additionally, it’s a Finnish sci-fi, so individuals simply internalize every part. They don’t discuss! That’s the tragedy of this story,” she says.

“Nonetheless, I assumed: ‘If I solely get to make one function, what would it not be?’ That was the reply for me. I really like creating worlds and I similar to movies that make you assume, make you see issues another way. So perhaps that’s my factor, in any case.”

“Palimpsest” was produced by Cyril Jacob Abraham for Thinkseed Movies.