Games People Play

Comical chamber play about old friends in crisis with turning 40 who reunite for a long summer night packed with unsettled love and unforgiven wrongs.

Licentious years of youth have been overtaken by middle-class convention when a group of hipster-clad friends from long ago arrange a surprise party for Mitzi in an imposingly beautiful house on the beach. But during the celebration more and more feelings from the past well up, and when Veronika (Laura Birn) brings a Swedish Hollywood export (Christian Hillborg) to the party, he has a hard time grasping how all the old friends’ crisis-ridden relationships fit together. After directing a number of short films that garnered attention (The Committee, GFF 2017) and being a driving force in the collective behind Force of Habit, Jenni Toivoniemi makes a feature film debut as director with a spot-on comedy about society for the twenties.

Short film: Index, dir: Nicolas Kolovos. (only screening 655, Wed Jan 29).

• Jonas Holmberg