Matti Harju
Matti HARJU (1978, Finland) is a filmmaker based in Helsinki. He was first educated at the Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design in Finland, and subsequently attended the National Film and Television School in the UK. He has made several short films that have screened at IFFR, as well as at Locarno Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand. Natura (2022), selected for IFFR 2023, is his feature-length debut.
Filmography
Mies etsii miestä/Man Seeking Man (2004, short), One in Four (2008, short), Afrikka/Africa (2011, short), Kolme päivää sadetta/Three Days of Rain (2021, short), Natura (2022)
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Matti Harju at IFFR
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Natura
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
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Mies etsii miestä
Sober family drama about father and son who meet in an unexpected way some years later.
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Africa
Young Finnish filmmaker Harju’s disturbing, raw film gets up close to a psychotic man. We don’t all live in the same reality.