Runaway Brain

Runaway Brain is a documentary film combining animation and creative documentary material, in which Nikke Liinamaa’s brain jumps out of his skull and sets off on an adventure through a drawn world. It is a world Nikke intuitively creates each day, like a visual diary. The journey of the brain passes through fantasies and happiness, into the depths of anger and depression, and returns to the light.

Nikke’s brain sees and expresses the world differently, partly because he has Down syndrome.The film is not a biography, but rather an associative trip into Nikke Liinamaa’s inner and outer world.

Nikke’s drawings offer the audience gentle ways to reflect on themselves and the world around them.