The Finnish action drama – borderline modern western - Law of the Land has been selected for Shanghai International Film Festival commencing on Saturday, along with Czech 3D animation Oddsockeaters and the renowned Danish drama 37. All three films will be screening as part of the Panorama programme.
Law of the Land centers on the retiring police officer Lasse, who gets caught up in between his biological and illegitimate sons trying to kill each other. While the village is left in a state of vengeance, Lasse must face his past mistakes.
In Oddsockeaters we get introduced to the world of small and invisible sock thieves.
Finally, 37 takes us back to 1964 when Kitty Genovese was stabbed 17 times and later raped by her killer - with 37 of her neighbors as witnesses. No one intervened.
Lasse, a retiring policeman gets caught up in between his biological and illegitimate sons trying to kill each other. While the village is left a state of vengeance, Lasse must face his past mistakes.
Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock. They eat socks, but only one from each pair.
March 13th, 1964, the Kew Gardens resident, Kitty Genovese, was stabbed 17 times and later raped by her killer, Winston Moseley. It has been documented that no less than 37 of her neighbors saw or heard how Moseley for 35 minutes had stalked, repeatedly stabbed and raped Genovese. None of the neighbors could explain why they did not interfere or why they had not even called the police. When confronted by the police and the public the most common answer was: I didn’t want to get involved.
