Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

A choir of tired nurses sing to Anna-Mari Kähärä’s hypnotic tunes about the truths of everyday nursing work in a musical documentary directed by Susanna Helke and co-scripted by Helke and Markku Heikkinen. DocPoint’s opening film is new in its format, and jolting in its message. It is a cinematic-musical work of activism, calling for more humane work, life and old age.

Director: Susanna Helke

Cast: Tiina Mollberg, Marja Vaarama, Jaana Pilvinen, Väinö Lipponen, Aino Lipponen, Väinö Martikainen, Eila Martikainen, Maija Tirkkonen

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.