Discoveries from Finland World Cinema

Jack Coski (Jaakko Koski) returns to Helsinki and gets impressed by co-op Elanto.

Elias, 10, is afraid of losing his mother who at times disappears from his life due to her fluctuating mental illness. Missing her desperately, Elias tries to hold on to the magical fantasy world that the two of them share together.

Part three of the Emialia animation series. Emma, ​​Emilia and Elvira are three little aunts whose only job is to be old. But they want to do important things. "Children are important," they exclaim at the same time. And then they are just as busy as other people.

Documentary about medium strength beer in Finland.

Iris comes to meet her alcoholic father…

In 18 minutes, a lone creator combines introspective landscapes, old devices and haunting memories into a whimsical symphony. Amidst Finnish panoramas, near the Russian border, broken video recorders flicker with melancholic sci-fi. Nature is a silent witness, while fragmented memories intertwine to create a visual collage that conveys a quiet sense of introspection.

Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.

A group of men arriving to their military refresher training are tasked with finding a lost football bomb meant for a film shoot.

Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film won Jussi Awards for filming and staging.

Jaakko faces a horrible fate on a nature trail.

Aida, a child on the autism spectrum, decides to fix the society’s structures that hinder her studies with the help of her caregiver mother Johanna. The determined child challenges the existing norms to advance acceptance and equality. Political influencing takes time and energy. Can the daughter-mother-duo change the society that only offers sympathy?

There is no ready formula for changing the world. “Radical Creatives” recognises the potential of creativity as a force for global change towards a more attractive and nuanced future. The 1-hour documentary explores the underutilized power of radical creativity. It's a story of overcoming self-doubt by using a collective creative force. The film weaves a compelling narrative that captivates the world of Finnish oddity at Aalto University and beyond, where tradition meets rebellion. Creativity is courage and action; it belongs to everyone and lives in all of us.

Sami van Ingen continues to explore the Flaherty film family with Cast of Shadows, which questions how much memories, images and end credits can lie.

Film about Finnish war hero.

Heikki Aaltonen enlists in military service, leaving behind his father Hemminki, mother Mimmi, and beloved Helvi on the family farm. At the same time, another Heikki Aaltonen enlists, who is completely different in character from the future small farmer Aaltonen. The constant confusion between the men's names, the overprotective attitude of their parents, and Helvi's admission to a domestic science school near the regiment are all factors that tend to disrupt Heikki's military service.

A young woman who is handicapped after an accident becomes attached to an AIDS orphan.

Senja and Melina are spending the evening with their friends in a nightclub, but typical problems overshadow the girls' fun.

Documentary about building the large hotel Viru as Soviet Union / Finland cooperation.

Story about one man's mission to bring christmas joy to children in the Eastern Ukrainian crisis area.

The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry boxing champion and garage owner Klasu Tullari, son of Vihtori's friend Tomi, and their interactions with daughter Vappu and her fiancé, Peter von Schaslick, a mechanic in Klasu's garage, under the nose of the threatening and suspicious Klaara, with lazy son Nisse acting as a rather sardonic Greek chorus. Teuvo Tulio's only comedy.

Documentary film about Helsinki.

Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight.

Based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari. One afternoon, Valter, a middle-aged bank employee, runs into an old acquaintance at Espalla, and a long, boozy evening ensues. Relations with his wife are strained, and there is a young, charming secretary working at the bank. Valter feels a longing for the adventures of his youth.

Eighteen-year-old Alicia is a talented competitive swimmer, spending a summer day with her parents and boyfriend at their cottage.

Saara falls in love with their employer's wife.

Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.

Marie II - anatomical minuet is a combination of object and puppet animation as well as live action film. Aliisa Pulkkinen plays the main part in the middle of old props and antiques. Marie II is a flow of consciousness, perhaps a statement about the pain of an animation artist’s creative work. Great battle with the characters, or not...

Young journalist student Mari gets a summer job in the countryside. While trying to socialise with the local people, she meets a shy young man who has the habit of going naked around the village.

An optician comes face to face with a collection of curious clients during her workday.

Performances by female gymnasts from Finland and neighboring countries.

A Catastrophic Road Movie documentary in search of a virtuous politician ... that's if he is not extinct ! Antonio , Einari, Ivan ( and a makeshift boom ) travel from Helsinki to Barcelona, Buenos Aires to Montevideo and to the desert of Bolivia in search of a utopia ,an ideal. Something concrete on which to build a new future'

A commissioned film about an oil refinery

A young student moves into a decaying apartment building and is given a disturbing assignment by its residents.

Set in 1867, the year of the great famine in Finland. A farmer’s wife sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children towards St. Petersburg.

A Finnish-Palestinian woman, Amani Lillak, is completing her voluntary military service in the Finnish Army’s medical corps. During a final combat exercise, Lillak learns that the crisis in her father’s homeland has further escalated. Film selected for the Cannes Film Festival La Cinéf competition lineup.

Fisherman Eerik Storm is in danger of losing his home and agrees to get money to be piloted by smugglers. When the customs officers surprise the smugglers, a chase and a firefight ensue, in which the customs officers are confronted with water.

What is there for a chest to do when a little mischievous guest messes up her drawers?

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.

Video documentary about Mark Parland's life during the years 1997 - 1999.

Always on the move, Mikael doesn’t live in a car or on the open road, but in shabby warehouses, a dilapidated cabin, a karaoke bar, and around the edges of his former lover Linda’s apartment—until he thinks he’s found an idyll in Porvoo. Mikael is a liar and a skilled manipulator. He seeks out broken people and makes a home for himself out of their wounds. When the lies start to burn, he disappears. At his core, Mikael is the epitome of mediocrity: a beautiful but weak person.a

Nastja Säde Rönkkö recites one poem with three narrators: a teardrop, a droplet of blood and a bead of sweat. Each tells love stories through biochemistry – about love, belonging and loss, and about crises lived and impending. The words are vivid but not enough, supercharged here by hyperreal images of landscapes both physical and emotional, and the fluids expressing and crystallising them.

In addition to the house and the forest, Violet has also inherited a practical nature and a lot of energy. Someone who has experienced her hustle and bustle said that the violet color in it is also accompanied by all shades of yellow.

Dear Arctic is a documentary film about researchers at the Arctic Center at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi. The documentary transports the viewer from Rovaniemi to fieldwork in the lands of arctic indigenous peoples and reindeer herders to Siberia, to climate change research in Iceland and Greenland, and back to Finland to the inner reflection of critical arctic research and research work. In the film, six researchers from three different research areas open their work. The Arctic Center is better known internationally than within Finland, and the documentary increases awareness of its unique activities, especially in the research center's home country. The film brings Arctic research closer to the public in an easily understandable form.

Documentary about the undocumented immigrants in Finland.

Finnish singer songwriter J. Karjalainen creates a new artist character called Lännen-Jukka. As Lännen-Jukka he goes to the USA to find the origin of Finnish American folkmusic. He meets Finnish Americans and performs with them and to them.

Civilians escape bombings and are evacuated. Story of civilians in the wars of Finland in 1939-1945.

Two people with opposing viewpoints discuss immigration policy.

Sara blames herself for the death of her husband – and makes the worst mistake of her life by resorting to the help of an ouija board in her self-pity.

Arr. for a Scene is a documentary of two foley artists while they are producing sounds for one of the most famous scenes in the history of film: the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, 1960.

Ismo Leikola is one of the most successful Finnish stand-up comedians. His achievements include four nationwide concert hall tours, boasting four different two-hour one man shows. He has also appeared in numerous TV shows, released two DVDs and three comedy song singles. In addition to his productive career in Finland he has been building an international presence for many years by performing at various festivals and respected professional comedy clubs around the world. In 2014 he won the ’Funniest Person in the World’ competition organised by the Laugh Factory in the US. Leikola’s English speaking career has been welcomed with excellent international reviews along with excited audience feedback in several countries.

A lonely grandmother faces love and death. After a heart attack, grandma finds a new meaning for her lonely life.

Traffic education film.

Kaarina, an unemployed Finnish sawmill worker, travels to work in Argentina after getting fed up with homeland's temporary jobs and short-term relationships. A fictional short film is a personal speech about the global state of the forest industry.

The schlager carousel spins! Finnish entertainment and drama. Hit songs and Suomi artists.

In the puppet animation, the playing of the orchestra led by Professor Nerokeino improves when the players wash their heads with Krinal-soap.

Finnish tv film based on "Galgmannen" play

Just when Julia is going to finish her horse drawing, her mother goes to the shop and leaves Julia to watch over her little brother Jonni. Then Julia dreams that when she grows up, she will have her very own circus horse, Josafat.

Daniela, Svetlana, and Matti film their relationship to the Arctic. The concern for the future of an unborn child, longing for home and a traditional way of life in the world of possibilities provided by capitalism form the foundation of the film. Arctic Utopias probes the individual’s emotional spectrum in a rapidly changing environment.