Finnish filmmaker Hanna Nordenswan makes her feature documentary debut with “Sense and Sensibility,” which tells the story of the unique relationship between a mother and daughter who both work at a cemetery. The project won the award for best documentary at Finnish Film Affair , which ran Sept. 24 – 26.

Produced by Helsinki-based Zone2 Pictures, “Sense and Sensibility” follows a recovering alcoholic who leans on her mother for support. Their relationship has become symbiotic, and their lives intertwined with the cemetery where both live in employee housing.

The two women, however, are polar opposites. Whereas Carita’s personality is charged with emotion, her daughter, Christa, depends on logic and rationality. Since becoming sober, she refuses to let people in. Instead, her life re

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