Yle Sales Swoops on ‘Linda’s Room,’ a Finnish Drama Thriller About Sexual Abuse, Ahead of MipTV (EXCLUSIVE)
08.04.2024 - 05:17
/ variety.com
Annika Pham Helsinki-based Yle Sales has picked up global distribution rights to “Linda’s Room” (“Lindan huone”), a Finnish YA drama thriller about consent and sexual abuse to be premiered at Cannes’ content market MipTV. The six-part short form series sparked social media hype among local auds when it launched early February on pubcaster Yle and its platform Yle Areena. The show is being produced by Helsinki-based Komeetta, credited for the Sundance selected shorts “Fucking Bunnies,” “Are You Hungry?” and the Göteborg winning pic “The Missile” and YA short form “Alpha.” Hot talent Kaya Pakaslahti (“Bathroom Stories”, “Limbo”) is directing, based on a screenplay by Laura Majava.
The story turns on 16-year-old Linda (Lina Muhonen), a junior high student, a passionate boxer who is eager to graduate to enrol into a sports academy. She starts casual dating Kristian (Niko Dahlblom) who is mad about her. Her life would be pretty O.K., if it wasn’t for a stalker who sneaks into her room one night and snaps her diary.
Then horror strikes. At a house party, Kristian rapes Linda. The incident pushes Linda towards the trauma of her past.
Producer and Komeetta co-founder Kaisla Viitala says she had worked earlier with screenwriter Laura Majava and was immediately hooked by her bold portrait of sexual violence, which doesn’t victimise the main female character, nor portray the perpetrator as a predator. “The way the object of sexual abuse is treated was new, fresh and thought-provoking,” she told Variety. “”Linda’s Room” is a unique psychological thriller about bringing to light the trauma of sexual abuse, and combatting it in order to open a window to a free life and relationships without fear,” added sales manager Maria Kivinen of
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