HÄN, the short film, is a collaborative project of London-based Finnish designer Ella Boucht, director and photographer Heather Glazzard, videographer Nora Nord and producer Bryanna Kelly. Building on Boucht's previous body of work, it seeks to find a new representation for butch and masc identities within the contemporary LGBTQI+.

The film is a visual ode to contemporary Finnish queerness filmed in Iniö in the archipelago of Turku, Finland. HÄN aims to show LGBTQ+ people from different backgrounds living in Helsinki, focusing specifically on butch, dyke, non-binary, trans and masc-presenting queer people whose spirit, beauty and life perspectives are often overlooked by the mainstream culture.

The short film takes place among forests and the sea, taking queerness out of the often implied club or urban settings – showing that queer identity and community can thrive beyond the busy cities. It puts Finland’s LGBTQ+ on the map of global culture, while also building the bridge between queer communities in Helsinki and London – a temporary queer utopia free to visit for all.

 

A film by :

Jesse Glazzard (director): @jesse_glazzard

Ella Boucht (designer, producer): @ellaboucht

Nora Nord (videographer, editor): @noranordfromnorway

Bryanna Kelly (creative producer): @bryannask

Cal Swingler (composer/sound designer): @cal_swingler

Caroline Suinner (cast): @carolinesuinner

Jessie Bullivant (cast): @a1jessiebullivant

Marié-Grace Iradukunda (cast): @maluwizz

Noel Ramsay (cast): @no.ramsay

Kai Nikolai Nordfors (cast): @vj_moody_bitch

Mattias Koli (translator)

 

Supported by The Finnish Cultural Foundation and UFF Helsinki

Launched in September 2021