Light Light Light (OmU)

In the summer of 1986, a nuclear reactor explodes in Chernobyl and feelings explode in a small town in western Finland. Mimi is the new girl in class and suddenly fills 15-year-old Mariia's life with radiant light. The two kiss on the beach, share their fears and experience their first great love. The teenage girls don't even realise that they come from different social backgrounds. 20 years later, Mariia returns home to look after her seriously ill mother. And suddenly the memories of the summer that changed everything come back to life. Light Light Light is based on the bestseller of the same name by Finnish author Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen. Director Inari Niemi switches masterfully between time periods and tells the story of growing up in a time of abstract threat and social rifts, full of melancholy and with images flooded with light. A stirring, romantic coming-of-age film with an eighties vibe.