The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (Sokea mies joka ei halunnut nähdä Titanicia, 2021) is a Finnish drama-thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Jaakko uses a wheelchair and can barely see. Every day he phones Sirpa, a woman he has never once met in person.

Sirpa's health takes a turn, and Jaakko makes a decision that should be simple and isn't: he will travel across the country to reach her, alone. Director Teemu Nikki keeps the camera locked on Jaakko's face while everything behind him dissolves into a blur, so the audience gets exactly what he gets — fragments of sound, the grip of a stranger's hand, the feeling that any helper on this trip might just as easily rob him.

Petri Poikolainen, who is blind and paralyzed in real life, plays the lead, and that authenticity turns an 82-minute road trip into genuine suspense. The film premiered in the Orizzonti section at Venice and works because the tension grows out of plain human tenderness rather than plot machinery. Stream The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021) online on iFILM.