On the Tenderness of Men

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On the Tenderness of Men (2025)

Directed by Minou Norouzi

Documentary · 21m

A work of speculative cinematic writing, the film is about war and displacement, architecture and place-making. It tells the fragmented biography of the so-called Rock Church, an iconic building in Helsinki and its architects who were excluded from the canon of Finnish modernism. The architects' personal history of displacement due to the Finnish Winter War of 1939 and Soviet occupation is braided with the war on present-day Gaza. Past and present histories, temporalities and geographies fold into, and over one another collapsing time, place and identities narratively to consider, in the gentlest of tones, the impact of atrocities on contemporary lifeworlds.

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Crew

Director
Minou Norouzi

Details

Release date
2025-03-10
Runtime
21m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, Finnish
Countries
Finland, Austria, United Kingdom