English Title：The Other Side of Hope

Director：Aki Kaurism?ki

Running Time：98min

Genres：Feature

Country：Finland，Germany

Premiere Status：Chinese Premiere

Khaled, a young Syrian refugee who has lost virtually all of his family, drifts to Helsinki as a stowaway passenger on a collier to seek asylum almost by accident. Wikstr?m is a travelling salesman who wins big at a poker table and buys an unprofitable restaurant along a back street in Helsinki. When the authorities decide to return Khaled to the ruins of Aleppo, he decides to stay illegally in the country. Finally Wikstr?m finds him sleeping in the inner yard of his restaurant and hires Khaled as a cleaner and a dishwasher. For a moment life shows us its sunnier side, but fate soon intervenes.