Inka Achté | Finland, 2023, 84'
When Finnish-Somalian Mustafe discovers his ancestors' land in the horn of Africa is full of copper and gold, he decides to swap his family’s safe but boring life in Finland -the country hailed as the happiest and most equal in the world – for Somaliland, a self-declared state in East Africa. As Mustafe struggles to lift the treasures from underground, his children embark on a bumpy journey to uncover where they really belong.
Inka Achté is a Helsinki-based filmmaker with more than 15 years of experience working in the film and TV industries. Inka started her career as a director/journalist at YLE (The Finnish National Broadcaster), working at the departments of factual, youth, and cultural programs. After graduating with an MA in documentary directing at the National Film and Television School in the UK in 2012, she worked as a Sales Agent, first a Taskovski Films and then at Autlook Filmsales, while also directing her debut feature Boys Who Like Girls (2018). Her second feature doc Golden Land (2022) is currently travelling festivals worldwide and has won awards at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and Tampere Film Festival in Finland. Alongside directing Inka co-runs Raina Film Festival Distribution, an agency focusing on festival distribution of high quality short and documentary films and works as the Head of Programming for Docpoint -The Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.
