Iltatähti / Blue Boy

Unspoken past. Dad who tried to be both the father and the mother. How to build a family portrait if both the pictures and the narrators are scarce? Blue Boy is delicate and at times tragicomic self image of a filmmaker who wishes to get to know his mother who died young. This way he also hopes to find out more about himself. Alongside, we see a story of the director’s life with his own partner, and how his father deals with that.

Markku Heikkinen

Markku Heikkinen studies documentary film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, Department of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. Blue Boy is his graduation film. Markku Heikkinen has worked as a radio and television journalist for the Finnish Broadcasting Company since 1986 also directing several documentaries. Earlier he has studied sociology in the University of Tampere.