Compartment No. 6

An adaptation of the homonymous novel by Rosa Liksom, Compartment No. 6, the second feature film by the Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen (after The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki was awarded the prize for the parallel Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2016),  closely follows the gradual connection that is being established between two passengers – a young Finnish student in need of a break from her girlfriend and a complicated and ordinary Russian man – who travel in the same compartment of a train departing from Moscow bound for the port of Murmansk in the Arctic Circle. Although there is a bit of friction at first, as they get to know each other a closer bond grows between the two that changes their lives.