The Beauty of Errors

Kappale kauneinta Suomea

Jukka Kärkkäinen
Finland, Sweden, Norway | 2026 | 94 min
Swiss Premiere
Language : Finnish
Subtitles : English, French

Father and son Tero and Henri live a life of deep affectionate complicity, spending their time repairing engines and reheating meals. When Henri moves in with his girlfriend, Alina, Tero has to relearn life without him. A moving yet drily humorous story about men coming to terms with life’s long apprenticeship, the absurdity of existence and the fear of loneliness.

Tero and Henri share a life of deeply affectionate companionship, filled with engines to repair and reheated meals, far removed from the world in their wooden-walled house near the forest somewhere in Finland. Tero, deeply anchored in the unconditional love of a single father, is well settled into the routine. But things can’t stay this way forever. Henri, standing at the threshold of adulthood, must decide what he wants to do with his life. When he decides to move in with his girlfriend Alina, Tero – like his dog Yuri, who is repeatedly left outside – will have to get used to staying behind the door. As he waits to relearn life without him, the empty beer cans pile up at the foot of the bed and the parent-child roles are reversed. The Beauty of Errors tells the story of men coming to terms with life’s long apprenticeship, the absurdity of existence and the fear of loneliness. Through precise framing and a pictorial composition that places the characters in dialogue with their surroundings, inner landscapes are revealed and expressed with tenderness and humour.

Mourad-Anis Moussa

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