Själö: Island of Souls

2020

Finnish

6.0

Action

Documentary

Lotta Petronella Director

Maaria Nuoranne as Other voices

Nina Söderlund as Phone call about the memory

Pirjo Rantamäki as Self - Scientist

Ritva Penttinen as Self - Scientist

Själö means 'the island of souls', and no name could be more fitting for the island in the Baltic Sea, which for centuries was a last stop for women who were considered social outcasts – and who are today forgotten. They were forcibly placed in a closed institution to be studied, measured and weighed – exactly in the way that nature itself was starting to be examined around the same time. Today, the place is a research centre. A young female scientist collects samples on the island, while the whispering voices of the past and never-sent letters echo in the empty hallways.