‘Silver Stars’ Director Auli Mantila takes Nordic Noir in New Directions in ‘Transport’

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‘Silver Stars’ Director Auli Mantila takes Nordic Noir in New Directions in ‘Transport’
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“You’re a horse person?” a Belgian stable owner asks Johanna, a young Finnish journalist delving into the discovery of a microchip in a baby’s meat patty at a Helsinki daycare center. Only creator-…

“You’re a horse person?” a Belgian stable owner asks Johanna, a young Finnish journalist delving into the discovery of a microchip in a baby’s meat patty at a Helsinki daycare center. Only creator-director

A Finnish public broadcaster YLE original series, and part of its notable line in international co-production, “Transport” is distinguished, as its short synopsis says, by its story of largely ordinary women, under pressure from their authoritarian male bosses to buckle under in a corrupt or constricting reality. Here the women fight back.

“Transport” showrunner Mantila’s debut feature, “The Collector” played Venice in 1997, while her second, 2000’s “Geography for Fear,” was selected for the Berlinale. “Silver Stars” won a Prix Europa award for best drama series in 2008.chatted to her in the run-up to 2022’s Göteborg Film Festival where the winner of the NFTF Prize will be announced at the fest’s TV Drama Vision on Feb. 2.

The series turns on three women under pressure to buckle under from authoritarian male bosses. Is this a coincidence?

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