Feet Up
Sofia, a creative eleven-year-old with a passion for drawing graffiti, is thrilled: tomorrow marks the grand opening of an authorized wall! To her despair, however, she gets grounded by her parents. But then all of a sudden the ceiling becomes the floor and the floor becomes the ceiling! Now that her parents can’t catch her so easily, can Sofia make it to the wall after all?
- Finland
- 2024, 11 min
- Director: Olli Ilpo Salonen
- Director of photography: Hannu Käki
- Editor: Pierre-Louis Umdenstock, Aleksi Raij
- Screenplay: Saana Räntilä, Annalisa Schmuckli
- Sound: Kyösti Väntänen
- Cast: Emilia Heiskanen, Aatos Höglund, Pamela Tola, Kirilas Glušajevas
- Coproduction: Feel Reel
- Producer: Saana Räntilä, Annalisa Schmuckli, Alvydas Kaškonas, Laura Kazbaraitė
- Production: Empire Pictures
Olli Ilpo Salonen
Olli Ilpo Salonen is a Finnish film and television director who has directed numerous short films and TV series. His feature film Wendy and the Refugee Neverland (2017) had its international premiere at the Haugesund Film Festival and received a nomination for the Finnish Jussi Film Award. For his work on television, Salonen has been twice nominated for the Venla Award (the Finnish TV awards) and as writer-director won the Golden Venla for SuomiLOVE (2014) in the category of Best Music Entertainment Series. In recent years, Salonen has worked extensively on successful Finnish dramas, including Exit (2022) and The Colour of Evil (2021).