80 min | Autumn 2020
Sihja
Sihja is a young, charming and a little outrageous fairy who leaves her home in the forest. On arrival in the city, she meets a sensitive new friend, a lonely human boy Alfred. Sihja loves the newly found organized urban shapes and orderly habits that the city people have. One day dead birds appear on the city streets. Alfred and Sihja must find out what is threatening the nature.
Marja Pyykkö (b. 1975) graduated as a film director from the Finnish Film School UIAH. She is an experienced director of both popular TV series, including the internationally distributed Hooked and Black Widows, and films such as Run Sister Run (2010), Village People (2013) and the box office hit Man and a Baby (2017).