Movie The choir of tired nurses charmed both the jury and the audience at the Docpoint festival: The Relentless Going – Songs of the Care Work is the best documentary of the year

DocPoint Film Festival has been awarded Best Documentary of the Year.

The director won the domestic competition series Susanna Helke with his film Relentless Going – Songs of Nursing. The musical documentary tells about the state of care for the elderly in Finland in the midst of companies’ profit-seeking.

The director has co-written the documentary together Markku Heikkinen with.

The documentary also won an audience vote, which was attended by the festival’s new domestic feature films.

International the jury praised the film for its insight into the directing work and its deep-seated grip on humanity. According to it, the challenges of nursing work are not a special feature of Finnish society, but issues related to the aging of the population affect the whole world.

Helke lived for years in the United States, from which the Nordic social model looked admirable. But when he returned to Finland in 2010, he was surprised at how it was treated here.

“The welfare state was like an old sofa thrown in the corner that we wanted to get rid of,” he said. In an interview with HS end of January.

In the story Helke says that the documentary was not created easily, even though breaking the ethos of the welfare state has made Helke think for a long time. In the end, a suitable treatment was found in the musical.

“I’ve watched many times as medication errors happen. It was forbidden for relatives to say that it is done understaffed, ”sings the choir of tired caregivers in a documentary that joyfully mixes different genres.

The songs based on the nurses ’letters and the music for the entire film have been composed Anna-Mari Kähärä.

Domestic received an honorable mention in the documentary series Inca Achtén controlled by Golden earth. He fled Somalia to Finland as a child Mustafe returns to Somalia with his family in the film to launch a mining project in the old lands of his family.

Directed by Ruslan Fedotov, Where Are We Headed talks about society through people traveling on the Moscow metro. Picture: Docpoint

International the race series was won by the Russian Ruslan Fedotovin controlled by Where Are We Headed. The film follows people on the Moscow metro and at the same time offers a cross-section of contemporary Russian society and people. According to the jury, the question of where the journey will go from the individual level to a riddle for the whole of Russia.

The festival continues today, Sunday. The films will be available for viewing on Docpoint’s website until the closing date.