The Other Side of Hope
(2017)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 368 votes
Year: 2017
Runtime: 102 мин
Country: Finland, Germany
Director: Аки Каурисмяки
Cast: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen, Niroz Haji, Janne Hyytiäinen, Ilkka Koivula, Nuppu Koivu, Simon Al-Bazoon, Tuomari Nurmio, Abdi Jama
Plot
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Syrian refugee Khaled stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, traveling salesman Wikström wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and Wikström finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef, and his dog.