Home

    Explore

    Create

    User Avatar

    You

    Själö - Island of Souls

    Själö - Island of Souls

    2020

    1:18:03

    Rate

    5.3/10 (5)

    Watch

    Fallback Icon

    No image available

    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Lotta Petronella

    Writers

    Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen,

    Stars

    N/A