The Squirrel
Oscar on skis
Markus LEHMUSRUUSU
FinlandGermany, Netherlands, Sweden
Feature
Second feature
2026Finnish
forbidden under 12
93 mn
Yle and The Finnish Broadcasting Company
Midnight Sun Film Festival - 2026 ;
Blue Sea Film Festival, Finland - 2026 ;
Fantastic Fest, Austin, Texas, USA - 2026 (international premiere) ;
Finland Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan - 2026 ;
Utopiales de Nantes, France October - 2026 ;
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, Italy - 2026 ;
68th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany - 2026 ;
41th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina - 2026 ;
In a future that has engineered nature away, life is clean, safe and comfortable. Pasi, a designer of artificial animals, is mostly content with it — until he stumbles upon the world's last living squirrel and takes it home. This is a serious hygiene violation, and inspector Emilia is assigned to the case. Keeping a wild animal alive turns out to be far harder than designing one. The squirrel gets depressed, Pasi falls for Emilia, and his carefully arranged life begins to unravel.
Release date in France : April 2, 2027
| Direction | Markus LEHMUSRUUSU |
|---|---|
| Cast | Miro LOPPERI, Mimosa WILLAMO, Hannu-Pekka Björkman , Roderick KABANGA, Pirjo Heikkilä , Eero RITALA, Ella Mettänen and Pirjo LONKA |
| Screenplay | Markus LEHMUSRUUSU |
| Cinematographer | Max SMEDS |
| Editor | Florian MIOSGE |
| Music | Freya ARDE |
| Sound | Ranko PAUKOVIC |
| Production | Bufo Misha JAARI
Mark LWOFF |
| Sales | REinvent Yellow |
