Alone With the Moon

One night, lonely Emmi (17) finds a strange, bald teenager on their yard who claims to have lost their memory. Emmi takes them in, saying the guest is her online friend. They quickly develop a tight bond, and there’s no one else in the world for them. Soon, however, Emmi starts to wonder if the guest is actually human. Emmi would rather die than stay on her parents’ farm and romanticizes suicide, while the guest only wishes for one day of normal, average life. 

Alone With the Moon is magical-realist coming-of-age film about finding a life-changing friendship and new hope, mixing boring countryside teenage life with folklore and vampire stories. The film explores being an outcast, teenage isolation and hopelessness – unfortunately timely themes to this day. It’s set in a rural Finnish town in spring 2002, mostly on one farm and will be shot on rough 16mm film.