English title: The Other Side of Hope
The faithful translation of the title is reported by one IMDB user as being Beyond Hope. I cannot vouch for that. Google Translate gives it as I Hope Beyond That, which is somewhat different.
A Syrian refugee arrives in Helsinki. He applies for a staying permit, but is rejected. He escapes from his confinement just before his deportation and starts working at a restaurant whose new owner recently separated from his wife.
Bland fiction on the immigration topic which seems to be based more on propaganda than on the immediate reality of Europe. Its protagonist is conveniently without cultural particularities: he has abandoned his religion (though not faith per se), and has no political affiliation. On the other hand, Finland is depicted as having a xenophobia problem, at both governmental and street levels, an assumption which contradicts every personal and news-type report to my knowledge. As one comment on IMDB has implied, perhaps the writer-director's secret intention was to produce a warning against immigration to his country, and pose as a humane liberal while doing it.
Rating: 35
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