Själö (2020)

Name: Själö
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-05-03T21:42:33+02:00
Rating: 2.25

Documentary | 78 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 78 minuten

Alternative titles: Själö: Island of Souls / Seili

Country: Finland

Directed by: Lotta Petronella

IMDb score: 6,0 (67)

Releasedate: 19 March 2020

Själö plot

On a remote island in the Baltic Sea, a psychiatric asylum has been converted into a research center for studying the local flora and fauna. Although there are no longer any human inhabitants, the place is still haunted by the souls of the women who were imprisoned within its walls. In particular, the women who first suffered from leprosy in 1624. A hundred years later, the institution was home to a variety of insane and mentally ill. Finnish filmmaker Lotta Petronella tries to tell the story of the island's troubled past.