Nuclear Neighbour

Finnish Hanna Halmeenpää, a teacher who volunteers her evenings and weekends to save the unique natural environment of her home together with her fellow activists in the Pro Hanhikivi association. When fighting a nuclear project, free time is a luxury you can’t afford. In promoting her cause, Hanna travels from one country to the next, poses difficult questions to the powers that be and, during a TV debate, silences a minister with her incisive argumentation. After reading to the children their bedtime story, Hanna returns to her laptop in the kitchen to continue the fight to save the area around Hanhikivi. ’I have never before been an activist or political in any way,’ says Hanna. It takes a weighty cause to change everything.

  • Fredrik Oskarsson
    Director
  • Fredrik Oskarsson
    Writer
  • Fredrik Oskarsson, John Arvid Berger
    Producer
  • Hanna Halmeenpää
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 3, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    170,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Sweden
  • Country of Filming:
    Finland, Germany, Japan
  • Language:
    English, Finnish, German, Japanese, Swedish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • DocPoint
    Helsinki
    Finland
    January 17, 2016
    world premiere
  • International Nature Festival Gödöllő

    Hungary
    May 1, 2016
  • Harlem International Film Festival 2016

    United States
    September 11, 2016
    American premiere
    Best world documentary
  • 17th Annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival

    Canada
    October 2, 2016
  • Umeå International Filmfestival

    Sweden
  • The Northern Character

    Russian Federation
    First diploma
  • cinema planeta

    Mexico
    March 12, 2017
  • One World

    Czech Republic
    March 19, 2017
Distribution Information
  • Bautafilm AB
    Country: Sweden
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Fredrik Oskarsson

Fredrik Oskarsson, 36 years old from a small village called Dorotea in Lappland, Sweden.
I have produced several short documentaries since 1998.
When I moved to Umeå in 2000 I started the production company ”oskar&oskarsson” with
My friend Oskar Östergren. During these years, we produced numerous one-hour documentaries and have been involved both as script developer, photographer, editor and producers in several other documentary, art and feature films screened at festivals and television.

2010 I started the production company Bautafilm AB together with Oskar Östergren, Therese Högberg and Victor Lindgren. We are based in Umeå, Västerbotten. Bautafilm focuses on feature films, short films, major TV productions and documentaries.

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