Watch The World’s First Film Made By An Airline & Airport

Finnair and Helsinki Airport have teamed up to create an interesting short film. They say that they’re doing this to celebrate 35 years of connecting East and West via Helsinki, which is a logical thing to showcase, given what a great connecting point Helsinki is.

This is the first time that an airport and airline have teamed up to create a film. They say that the short film, East and West Side Story, “speaks of meaningful encounters that take place when people travel.”

Here’s how they describe the movie:

East and West Side Story follows a famous writer in need of personal privacy, while the whole world wants to have her in the limelight. The story plays on three continents, spacing from the US to Korea and ending in Finland. As the film’s title East and West Side Story suggests, the film has two directors: Young-Wok Paik aka “Wookie” comes from Korea and Johan Storm from Sweden. The two directors both give their point of view on the same story, produced by B-Reel Films (Bergman: a Year in Life). The leading roles are played by Anne Bergstedt (Boardwalk Empire, Black Swan) and Jae Hoon (One Day Maybe).

What’s also cool is that the short film premiered last night in an aircraft hangar at Helsinki Airport, which was turned into a movie theater for a night. This is obviously a great way for the airport and airline to use branded entertainment to tell an emotional story in hopes of reaching a wide audience.

Here’s the short 13 minute film, for anyone who is interested:

I enjoyed the short film…. I think. The story line as such was interesting, the scenery was beautiful, it was sort of relaxing to watch, and I was curious all along about how it would end. I was just hoping for more with the ending, though I guess any other sort of ending would have been cliche.

Also, since this was a movie created by an airline and airport, I feel like these are reasonable questions — since when does Finnair fly the A350 to New York, and why weren’t they both in Finnair’s lounge, given that they were flying business class? 😉

What do you make of Finnair and Helsinki Airport’s short film?

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beyounged Guest

@Daniel Ah yes I also tell myself that it is a movie, but my head just keeps buzzing all the time! I need professional help :P The area looks like gate 18-ish to me, but hey I spent most of the time in the lounge so what do I know! But if they were already in the Schengen area then Novak would never have to walk that bridge, because they do not seem to be talking around gate 31, so they must be talking in gate 50s, and that is past the bridge! Ahhhh why is this driving me crazy... But, but, Johnny would have a better time shooting it in downtown! Or right in the place people hug for goodbyes (before security or at the pick up area). Okay beyounged, deep breath, relax, think about the sauna, yes...

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beyounged Guest

@ CP@YOW You are absolutely right, as I assumed she is US citizen, but I believe if I were to assume her nationality, I would say the character is not European at all. Her grandfather is from Finland and her parents both have very North American accent so likely she, as well as her parents, were born in the US. Her friends also have no idea where the town is so she probably has not returned there much, if at all. That all point to that she is likely a 3rd generation Finnish immigrant, who is trying to reconnected with a LOST past by going back to a home she never belonged. More importantly, the point of the movie is to have a man from East and girl from West to meet in somewhere that connects the two, so for her being European citizen, especially Finnish, would defeat the very core idea of the film, so yes, I do make assumption of her nationality, but it is an educated guess. As for the actress, she can totally do an European accent but did not, so her interpretation of the Novak character is probably also someone raised in the US. (also, you only acquire Finnish citizenship if either of your parents are, so they used grandfather probably to distance Finland and Novak for a reason) But each person's interpretation vary, so I do believe Novak is North American of Finnish descent, but no direct ties to the land as it makes the most sense for me. YMMV.

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Daniel from Finland Guest

@beyounged, relax, it's just a movie. Besides, US citizens do have access to the e-gates: https://www.finavia.fi/en/airports/helsinki-airport/services/automated-border-control And they did meet in the Non-Schengen area. Why was Johnny there so early? Well, obviously he had nothing else to do since his job was canceled, and in the movie you can see how he wanted to shoot people at the airport. Well, not shoot-shoot but photograph ;) Nice flick, although how it promotes AY or Finavia beats me.

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Nicholas Guest

Is it me or her plane is boarding through the right side in the very first scene?

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Sam Guest

@Lucky I bet you haven't seen the video BA and Heathrow made in honour of Freddie Mercury , who used to work at Heathrow as a baggage handler before he became a superstar. It is awesome.

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