The Other Side of Hope

The Other Side of Hope
Film poster
Directed byAki Kaurismäki
Written byAki Kaurismäki
Produced byAki Kaurismäki
Starring
CinematographyTimo Salminen
Edited bySamu Heikkilä
Production
companies
Distributed byB-Plan
Release date
  • 3 February 2017 (2017-02-03)
Running time
98 minutes
Countries
  • Finland
  • Germany
Languages
  • Finnish
  • English
  • Arabic
Budget€1,600,000
Box office$3,289,611

The Other Side of Hope (Finnish: Toivon tuolla puolen) is a 2017 Finnish comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish company Sputnik. The story is about a Finnish businessman who meets a Syrian asylum-seeker looking for his missing sister.

It was selected to compete at the main competition of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. Where it won the Silver Bear for Best Director.

At the time of its release, Kaurismäki noted that this film would be his last as a director, although he went on to make a new film, Fallen Leaves (2023), six years later.