On a remote lighthouse island, opera singer Nora arrives to bury her late husband, unknowingly disrupting Natalia, a former priest living in isolation. Bound by a shared past with the deceased, the two women must confront buried guilt and unspoken truths. Love, faith, and violence intertwine as they seek redemption in silence and confrontation.
Pirjo Honkasalo (1947, Helsinki) studied cinematography at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (TAIK) and has a Master’s in Film Studies from Temple University in Pennsylvania. Her first important work, the historical drama Flame Top, was shown in Cannes in 1980. As a documentary director, Honkasalo is famous for The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic, of which the last part, Atman, won the Joris Ivens Prize at the IDFA in 1996. Her film The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004) won numerous awards. Concrete Night (2013) gathered six Jussi Awards in 2014, among them Best Direction and Best Film. Its world premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Masters series.
The Yellow Affair
