Beauty and the Bastard

A film about Finnish hiphop culture and young love. In the film boy meets a girl. Even they come from different circumstances they fall in love.
Sune is a hiphop DJ matter what. He comes from a ghetto and hiphop is all that matters. He makes beats to a rap group called Kärkiryhmä. For labour job he is canning paint, to fund his homestudio.
Nelli comes from wealhty family. She is forced to study hard, but she daydreams about to become R 'n B star.
When Sune and Nelli meets, it is the beginning towards a record deal and romance.


World Sales:
Intramovies

Director:

Dome Karukoski

Screenwriter:

Pekko Pesonen

Producers:

Aleksi Bardy, Riina Hyytiä & Olli Haikka

Cast:

Pamela Tola, Samuli Vauramo, Joonas Saartamo, Eero Milonoff, Mikko Leppilampi, Mikko Kouki, Anna-Leena Härkönen, Eero Saarinen

Cinematographer:

Pini Hellstedt

Set Designer:

Antti Mattila

Costume Designer:

Tarja Saikkonen

Make-up:

Mari Vaalasranta

Sound:

Juha Hakanen

Music:

Jukka Immonen

Editor:

Harri Ylönen

Premiere:

21.10.2005

DVD-release:

31.03.2006

Awards:

Jussi -awards 2005, 5.2.2006
Best music (Jukka Immonen)

Amanda Award for Best Nordic Debut Feature Film, Haugesund, Norway, 18.9.2006

9th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Pyrgos, Greece, 2. - 9.12.2006
The Children´s Jury Award

Festivals:

Berlinale, Kinderfilmfest 14+, Germany, 9. - 19.2.2006

Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA, 25.4. - 7.5.2006

Cannes Marché du film, France, 17. - 28.5.2006

Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland, 14. - .18.6.2006

Moscow International Film Festival, Russia, 23.6. - 2.7.2006

Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel, 6. - 15.7.2006

Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia, 21.7. - 13.8.2006

Seoul International Youth Film Festival, Korea, 2. - 6.8.2006

Jecheon International Film Festival, Korea, 9. - 14.8.2006

Norwegian Film Festival, Haugesund, Norway, 18. - 24.8.2006

Espoo Ciné International Film Festival, Finland, 22. - 27.8.2006

Buster, Copenhagen International Film festival for Children and Youth, Denmark, 8. - 15.9.2006

Nordkapp Film Festival, Norway, 14. - 17.9.2006

Vilnius International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Lithuania, 22.9. - 1.10.2006

Tel Aviv International Children´s Film Festival, Israel, 27. - 30.9.2006

Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland, 6. - 15.10.2006

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Miami, USA, 20.10. - 12.11.2006

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany, 1. - 5.11.2006

exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany, 17. - 26.11.2006

Finnish Film Week, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1. - 7.12.2006

Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia, 23.11. - 10.12.2006

9th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Pyrgos, Greece, 2. - 9.12.2006

Finnish Film Week, Barbican, London, 7. - 13.12.2006

Finnish Film Week, Murmansk, Russia, 8. - 13.12.2006

Finnish Film Week, Moscow, Russia, January 2007

Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg, Germany, 25. - 28.1.2007

European Youth Film Festival of Flanders, Belgium, 15. - 26.2.2007

Bologna, Italy, February 2007

24th BUFF Filmfestival, Malmö, Sweden, 13. - 17.3.2007

International Film Festival Febiofest, Prague, Czech Republic, 22. - 30.3.2007

Picture Europe by EFP, Madrid, Spain, 16.4.2007

Picture Europe!, London, UK, 8. - 14.6.2007

4th Viennese Youth Film Festival GAFFA, Austria, 1. - 6.10.2007

FICI, Madrid, Spain, 12. - 17.11.2007

Finnish Film Week in Warsaw, Poland, 1. - 7.12.2007