Beauty of Errors

PLAYING WITH SHORT FILM:<i> </i><b>PUOLANKA PUSSY RALLY</b><div>Shot with quiet patience and dry wit, The Beauty of Errors is an intimate and deeply moving portrait of a father and son discovering that love does not always know how to let go. Fifteen years after becoming a single father, Tero has built his entire world around raising his son Henri. Together they hunt, cut firewood, argue about cars in the sauna, and navigate the unspoken rituals of life in a small Finnish village, where affection is expressed less through words than through work. But as Henri falls in love and prepares to begin a life of his own, Tero is forced to confront an unsettling truth: he has come to depend on his son as much as his son once depended on him. Director Jukka Kärkkäinen crafts a compassionate, often unexpectedly funny portrait of masculinity, emotional inheritance, and the quiet ways families care for one another. Rich with deadpan humor and profound empathy, The Beauty of Errors reminds us that every family is built from imperfections, and that beauty lies not in correcting them, but in learning to live with them.</div><div><br></div><div>PUOLANKA PUSSY RALLY (5 min)</div><div>In the tiny northern Finnish village of Puolanka, where the population has been shrinking for decades, dark humor has become a survival skill. As endless summer evenings drift by, teenage boys celebrate their newfound freedom by driving the same few streets in circles, while an older generation of men, proudly known as "The Parliament", holds court at the local petrol station café. Hunting, horsepower, and the village's notorious "Pussy Rally" are worn as badges of identity, but one question hangs over it all: where have all the women gone? By turns hilarious and quietly poignant, this affectionate portrait of a fading community captures a place reckoning with loneliness, masculinity, and the uncertain future of rural life.</div>DocumentaryPT1H39M2026-10-08FIfi
Tero Pihkakoski
Henri Pihkakoski
Jukka Kärkkäinen
Sami Jahnukainen
Juha Löppönen
Beauty of Errors"Beauty of Errors"

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Pickford Film Center