Directed by Juho Kuosmanen • 2021 • Finland/Russia

Juho Kuosmanen’s transnational odd couple odyssey is an homage to a lost era of travel and connection that won the Grand Prix at Cannes. In the chaotic post-Soviet nineties, Finnish grad student Laura (Seidi Haarla) boards a sleeper train from Moscow to the Arctic Circle in search of prehistoric rock carvings. When her flighty Russian lover Irina (Dinara Drukarova) drops out of the trip, she finds herself sharing a compartment with Lyokha (Anora star Yura Borisov), a loutish Russian miner heading north for work. In the claustrophobic world of the train carriage, the pair slowly begin to let their guards down as their journey becomes an inward reflection on their place in the world. Produced shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Compartment No. 6 looks back to an era of tentative rapprochement that has since turned to aggression.

COMPARTMENT NO. 6 • HYTTI NRO 6
Directed by Juho Kuosmanen
Written by Juho Kuosmanen, Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman
From the novel by Rosa Liksom
Cinematography by Jani-Petteri Passi
Starring: Seidi Haarla, Yura Borisov, Dinara Drukarova

In Russian and Finnish with English subtitles

Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival 2021