Valo is a new Nordic release coming up this fall. Vili Järvinen plays the title character.

This synopsis is extracted from the Finnish Film Foundation....


Valo is a touching film for children between 8 and 12 along with their parents. The film is based on a true story. It tells a Charles Dickens-like story of Valo, the talented 9-year-old son of a chimney sweep, who through the chimneys brings hope of a better future to the children living in poverty and misery.

The uniqueness of the film Valo arises from the initial material it was built on: the script is based on a child´s authentic diaries written over a hundred years ago. This starting point presents a child´s point of view. The story interprets freely the childhood diaries of an artist and philosopher Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, written in 1908–1910.

Although the story takes place in historical time, it tells a universal story where the essential thing is not the time and the place, but instead the things that happen between people, between children and adults, especially between fathers and sons.

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