Miles to Go Before I Sleep

2015

A young Congolese woman shares her story of being thrown into a whirlwind of drifting between continents.

Festivals & Awards

Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy 2015 (Finland) - World Premiere

Terra di Tutti Film Festival 2015 (Italy)

Mosca Mostra Audiovisual de Cambuquira 2015 (Brazil)

Luksuz Film Festival 2015 (Slovenia)

Helsingin lyhytelokuvafestivaali 2015 (Finland)

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest 2015 (Germany)

Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Hungary)

Pravo Ljudski Zoom Rights Youth Program 2015 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Filmschoolfest Munich 2015 (Germany)

Caminhos Film Festival 2015 (Portugal)

Festival Courts Devant 2015 (France)

Corto Imola Festival 2015 (Italy)

ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival 2016 (Canada)

Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2016 (Germany)

DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2016 (Finland)

Chennai International Short Film Festival 2016 (India)

Tampere Film Festival 2016 (Finland)

Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival 2016 (Italy)

European Film Festival of Lille 2016 (France)

Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival 2016 (UK)

Cinema Perpetuum Mobile ISFF 2016 (Belarus) - Best Documentary Film

Wegiel International Student Film Festival 2016 (Poland)

Internationale Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln 2016 (Germany)

L'Inconnu Festival 2016 (France)

Sehsüchte International Student’s Film Festival 2016 (Germany)

Ismailia International Film Festival 2016 (Egypt) - Jury Award

Yale Student Film Festival 2016 (US) - Best Documentary Film 

International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival 2016 (Turkey)

Helsinki African Film Festival 2016 (Finland)

Davis Feminist Film Festival 2016 (US)

China Women’s Film Festival 2016 (China)

AsterFest 2016 (Macedonia)

Short of the Year - Winter Edition (Spain) - Special Mention

Backup_festival 2016 (Germany)

Mo&Friese Children’s Short Film Festival 2016 (Germany)

Documentary Tirana International Film Festival 2016 (Albania)

Finno-Ugric Film Festival 2016 (Estonia)

Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days 2016 (Turkey)

Festival of Migrant Film 2016 (Slovenia)

Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival 2016 (Estonia)

Black Star International Film Festival 2016 (Ghana)

Off-Courts Trouville 2016 (France)

Budapest International Documentary Festival 2016 (Hungary)

Nyack Film Festival 2016 (US)

Full Bloom Film Festival 2016 (US)

International Human Rights Film Festival in Albania 2016 (Albania)

Viscult - The Festival of Visual Culture 2016 (Finland)

Minikino Filmweek 2016 (Indonesia)

DocsMX 2016 (Mexico) - Honorable Mention

Artova Film Festival 2016 (Finland) - Honorable Mention

Women Make Waves International Film Festival 2016 (Taiwan)

interfilm Berlin 2016 (Germany)

Exground Filmfest 2016 (Germany)

West Nordic International Film Festival 2016 (Norway)

Watch Docs 2016 (Poland)

CineMAiubit International Student Film Festival 2016 (Romania)

Which Human Rights? Film Festival 2016 (Turkey)

Victoria Film Festival 2017 (Canada)

Little México Film Festival 2017 (USA)

Kısa Film Kolektifi 2017 (Turkey)

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival 2017 (Australia)

Crossroads Film Festival 2017 (USA)

MICGénero 2017 (Mexico)

Technical Details

Genre Documentary

Production countries Finland, Zambia

Running time 13 min

Language English (with English subtitles)

Shooting format Digital FullHD

Screening format DCP, ProRes (FullHD, 1.77:1)

Color Color

Audio Dolby 5.1, Stereo

Production Metropolia UAS

Credits

Directed by Hanna Hovitie

Written by Hanna Hovitie, Noora Kuparinen

Produced by Emmi Vuokko

Cinematography Hanna Hovitie, Iikka Salminen

Editing Noora Kuparinen

Sound Design and Mixing Miikka Katajamäki

Music Sarah Palu, Matias Tyni

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