I was surprised by the other very negative user reviews. I'm not a softy for kid's films. Often the most you can hope for from a kids' film is that they not be tedious for an adult to endure. I've seen several this film festival that fall in this category -- Mr Frog, or Belle and Sebastian II. (And they were far better than Tesoros, which I slept through.) But Little Wing worked for me. Maybe I was just in the right mood, who knows.
The main character, 12 year old Varpu (Finnish for "little wing", from a Jimi Hendrix song) has a single mom. Mom's nice, but depressed and inattentive, and gets more mothering from Varpu than she provides to Varpu.
Varpu eventually goes on a quest to find her missing father, and to understand why her parents got together and why they couldn't stay together.
The main character, 12 year old Varpu (Finnish for "little wing", from a Jimi Hendrix song) has a single mom. Mom's nice, but depressed and inattentive, and gets more mothering from Varpu than she provides to Varpu.
Varpu eventually goes on a quest to find her missing father, and to understand why her parents got together and why they couldn't stay together.