2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Anna Paavilainen’s Kikka!

With every fest edition there has been a rich component dedicated to music – celluloid go hand and hand with musical notes hence the music biopic are often welcomed. Most are known entities but if Anna Paavilainen‘s sophomore feature is included here, or Rotterdam or the Berlinale there’ll need to be some context needed to fully get into Kikka!. Starring Sara Melleri in a decade-spanning, head strong personality portrait, the Finnish pop singer was compared to Samantha Fox. Produced by Daniel Kuitunen (who brought a pair of Finn-tastic side-splitting shorts to the fest in Fucking Bunnies and Are You Hungry?), the project will be release domestically in Finland in February.

Gist: This is a biopic on pop singer Kikka, a.k.a. Kirsi Hannele Viilonen, who passed away in 2005 at just 41 years old.

Production Co./Producers: Komeetta’s Daniel Kuitunen, Kaisla Viitala.

Prediction: WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.(domestic, international).