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Hayflower and Quiltshoe

Original title: Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu
Finland, 2002

Director: Rastimo, Kaisa
Production company: Kinotaurus Oy
Age recommendation: 6 years and up

Synopsis:
Haylfower and Quiltshoe is a film based on a popular set of children's books written by Sinikka and Tiina Nopola. The main characters in the film are the nice and conscientious Haylfower, the eldest of two sisters in the Kattilakoski family, and her eccentric and spunky little sister Quiltshoe. The script is an original story that contains funny details from different books of the set.

Haylfower and Quiltshoe are best friends and spend all their time together. A change is about to happen: In a week, Haylfower is going to start school. There are big things going on inside both of the girls' minds. Who is going to do the household chores in the family when mother's little helper Haylfower won't be there? Who is going to clean and do the dishes? Who is going to play with Quiltshoe?

In order to be able to concentrate on school without worries on her mind, Haylfower feels she has to put family matters in order first. Their domestically challenged mother is doing her best but household chores aren't really her area of speciality. Their father, a scientist, on the other hand, is only interested in the potato, his life-long object of study.

Quiltshoe is raging and says that children cannot be expected to live in such a house. The girls leave in a tantrum and pay a visit at the Alibullen sisters, two spinsters who live next door. Haylfower's and Quiltshoe's wild escape culminates in a wonderful spaghetti dinner, cooked by the spinsters, but ends up embarrassingly when the police escort the defiant Haylfower and Quiltshoe back to their mother and father.

The family is going through a crisis and Haylfower has had enough. When the parents and the police cannot help them and neither is the Heavenly Father offering his intervention, nothing can change for the better. There is only one thing that can. Haylfower herself has to change!

When school finally starts, Haylfower has learned the most difficult lesson of her life: Adults won't learn anything if children are nice and behave themselves. (Source: Finnish Film Institute)

Comments:
"Makes the spectator feel good. The movie is warm-hearted, funny and wonderfully classical." Lansi-Suomi

"Nothing like this has been done before." HP Wettenhovi-Imatralainen

"The movie is excellent, and beautiful as a fairytale. It's funny too." Etela-Saimaa

Festivals:
Winner of 2 National Awards, Jussi, and winner of Annual Award for working for the Benefit of Children, Buster Copenhagen 2003, Chemnitz 2003, Lübeck 2003, Vienna 2003, Chicago 2003, Poznan 2004, Discovery Dundee 2004, Vilnius 2005

World sales address/es:
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