Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland (2010)

Original title

Reindeerspotting – pako Joulumaasta

Directed by

Joonas Neuvonen

Genre

documentary film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

K18

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Finnish documentary follows drug users living in Rovaniemi, the hometown of Santa Claus. It shows their daily struggles with addiction and attempts to escape their circumstances.

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What happens

Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland (Finnish: Reindeerspotting: pako Joulumaasta) is a Finnish documentary film about drug abusers in Rovaniemi, Finland. It was directed by Joonas Neuvonen and produced by Jesse Fryckman and Oskari Huttu. The first screening of the film was in Tampere, April 2010, Finland. The name of the movie is a direct allusion to the 1996 British drama film Trainspotting that treated the same theme from a Scottish point of view. The film was shown outside of Finland for the first time in Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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