Family Time
Tia Kouvo | Finland | 2023 | 116 minutes
It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it’s time to gather again, this time for a funeral.
Director: Tia Kouvo
Cinematographer: Jesse Jalonen
Editor: Okku Nuutilainen
Producers: Jussi Rantamäki, Emilia Haukka
Swedish co producer: Fredrik Lange
Finnish Oscar submission, Jussi pris för: Bästa film, bästa manus och bästa regi
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Tia Kouvo is a Finnish director and screenwriter with a background in social psychology. She graduated from the Valand Academy in 2018. Family Time is her debut feature film, and it is based on her eponymous graduation short film. The short film was awarded at HIFF (Love & Anarchy) and TamperFilm Festival. She is based in Gothenburg and works in both Sweden and Finland. Kouvo has developed her distinct, observational style in her previous films, among which her award-winning shorts Chat with Me (2014) and We Retired People (2018). In 2021, she participated in both the Torino Feature Lab and the Nordic Film Lab.