Vesa Vainio
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Frontier, a screenplay by Vesa Vainio

Frontier

Blood is thicker than poison

Logline: When a small-time thief steals a fortune from a ruthless crime boss, his only refuge is his estranged grandfather’s isolated farmhouse — the last place he’d ever be welcome. What begins as a reluctant homecoming quickly descends into a war between them, until the crime boss’s army arrives, forcing grandfather and grandson to stand side by side as the only family either has left.

A slow-burn character piece that erupts into a full-blown siege thriller, intimate in scale, relentless in escalation. Dark humor, brutal violence, and a genuine emotional core: two broken men, out of time, choosing family in the only way either of them knows how — by fighting for it. A relationship that pays off in a gut-punch ending neither character sees coming.

Format
Feature film
Genre
Siege thriller with dark humor
Screenplay
80 pages
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