I first met filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo when we were both teenagers. Her mother Leena, who passed away only last year, was my father's younger sister. I was four years old when my father took his little brood (my mom, my two brothers and myself) from Finland to Boston, Masachussetts to pursue his studies at M.I.T. All the wonderful relatives I would wait years to meet again stayed behind and prospered in Finland! What a joy it was to spend my summer holiday at the age of 16 in Finland, re-discovering connections with my extended family (on maternal and paternal sides) of aunts, uncles and beautiful, brilliant cousins.
'The 3 Rooms of Melacholia" (clip: below) is one of Pirjo's finest docmentaries; disturbing though it may be, this is a film you ought not to miss.
"A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp." (imdb)
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