EUTHANIZER
directed by Teemu Nikki
Small ones I gas. The big ones get a bullet.
Euthanizer is a violent Finnish summer noir. Veijo Haukka, a 50-year-old mechanic, puts sick pets to sleep as a second job. Petri Kettu has a problem with his dog. He tries to kill it, but doesn’t have the stomach to do it. He pays Veijo to do the job. The only problem is that Veijo doesn’t kill healthy dogs…
DRAMA DCP/HD - 2017 - Finland - 83min
CAST Matti Onnismaa, Jari Virman, Hannamaija Nikander, Heikki Nousiainen, Pihla Penttinen
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Finnish
PRODUCED BY Jani Pösö
IN COPRODUCTION WITH Äänipää, Grade One, YLE
Producer, director, writer, TEEMU NIKKI was born in 1975. He is a self-educated film maker and a son of a pig-farmer from Sysmä, Finland. He has directed more than ten short films and hundreds of commercials and music videos – and 3 feature films and 2 tv -series too. That makes him a genre-free thus genreenthusiastic director and storyteller. Teemu's work has been shortlisted and awarded in e.g. Sitges Filmfilm festival, Sundance Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Eurovision Creative Days, Cannes Young Directors, CICFF, Tampere Film Festival, Popoli e Religioni Film Festival and Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 - WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 - Contemporary World Cinema Section
SAO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 - Official Selection
THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 - Official Selection
TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2017 - Official Selection
FESTIVAL DE CINEMA EUROPEEN DES ARCS 2017 - Official Selection
GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL 2018 - Official Selection