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Wille's godfather is in love with a Thai woman. Wille believes there can't be true love between a Western man and a Thai woman. It's just prostitution by another name. Invited by his godfather, Wille spends a month in Thailand trying to reveal the reality of the relationship. Is it true love?
Pixadores are a group of young men from the São Paulo favelas. They paint their message on incredible locations to fight the society that’s suppressing them. An invitation to the Berlin Biennale changes everything for the outcasts. Their art, however, won’t fit the frames provided by the establishment. As the men’s world expands outside the favelas, their friendship is put to test.
A silent Christmas night at a sorority house turns into an unexplainable crime scene for Nadia Jones and her friends, when a recently released conman claims to be the father of her supposedly mutated child.
"Through the gray stone, the bedrock." Follows the making of Jouko Turka's version of Aleksis Kivi's novel "Seven Brothers". The Finnish national poem. A very close look at the lives and drama education of the students at the Theater Academy in Helsinki. Trying, challenging and partly offensive exercises, mental pressure and Turkka's theatre ideology and method.
Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy.
Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.
The year is 1936, and shoemakers in a Finnish industrial town are sending shoes to Spain as humanitarian aid. Young Arvo wants to do more, so he joins as a volunteer in the International Brigades and disappears.
Dreams and memories merge together at the moment of disappearance. Recurring visions and gestures are drawn into the void within the portrait of a fading self.
Police trainee Riikka finds there is something not even a bullet proof vest can protect her from - her own emotions.
On December 6, 1917, Finland declared its independence from Russia. A detailed chronicle of the major events in the history of this young European nation.
Grandmother returns from the grave to haunt her family.
Alina wakes up to a new morning.
Bipolar Hilla cannot help but fall in love when she meets bohemian and free-spirited Jemina.
Documentary 2013
After his mother falls asleep, Jussi prepares to go to a gig with Uncle Jone.
A man is overwhelmed.
Animation film.
Documentary film.
He always comes in second in Counterstrike. But now 17-year-old Finnish super-gamer Verneri wants to be number one with the help of an e-sports psychologist. A shoot ’em up film about self-esteem, ambition and digital dreams.
A dive to the depths of sorrow and back to life again. The short film shows how a person observes everyday environment after facing the loss of a beloved one. Normal things gain symbolic value and some events become totally absurd when they have lost their meaning altogether.
A fertilized egg develops into a human. He is born, lives his life and eventually dies. Human life is a journey, the path we take from birth to death. The film is a story about the journey of Minja's life. At the end of the film, there is a dedication to Minja, Minja’s mother and grandmother. There are no other texts at the end of the film. The film also lacks a director as it is cut from existing film material. The Creator has directed Minja's life.
Unemployed man applies for a job he doesn't want.
Tough guy goes to the hills searching for trouble and finds more than he bargained for. Let the dust fly and bloody vomit flow!
A documentary film on the Western Lapland Open Dialogue Project, the program presently getting the best results in the developed world for first-break psychosis -- approximately 85% full recovery, a far majority off antipsychotic medication.
The filmmaker revisits footage from 1997 on a trip to Finland’s Arctic Circle to the Midnight Sun Film Festival with Terhi who was conveniently Finnish and (not so conveniently) her ex-girlfriend. They were looking for a man. There was unfinished business.
War documentary from the Continuation war produced by Finnish armed forces.
A comedy film about Adolf Hitler's visit to Finland for marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim's birthday on June 4, 1942.
The Red and White Sky addresses the mystery of the filmmaker's female relative, who was killed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918 in Vyborg. Was the distant relative the leader of the female Red Guard? The film also deals with ethical concerns associated with filmmaking, which witnesses another person's life.
Geri, 18, is a Bulgarian girl living in an orphanage in the city of Vratza. She's a senior at local high school. She's dreaming of entering university. The final exams are approaching, and this has even bigger meaning for her than to many others, because after the graduation she is obliged to move out from the orphanage. Geri starts to go through her past with her stepbrother; the domestic violence behind the breakup of the family. She would love to know why her mother abandoned her and why she was not given to a foster family but had to grow up at the orphanage. She hesitates should she invite the mother to her prom. Geri also had a boyfriend who wanted her to quit the school and emigrate to Germany. He returns for the prom. The prom night is wonderful, full of hope and joy, but there are new twists of fate looming around the corner. Can Geri overcome her past or repeat the family's old mistakes in different form?
Documentary film by doctor Törhönen.
Once prominent executives of a powerful corporation inexplicably turn feral and wander the forest. They are hunted and traded by hunters as retribution for their crimes against the environment. One of the hunters encounters someone unexpected, and loyalty is tested.
Golden Headacher is an experimental animated documentary about women's anger and aggression and cultural ways of expressing and suppressing these difficult emotions. The soundtrack of the film is composed of descriptions of women's emotional experiences in situations of aggression in relation to their own children, spouse or other women.
Pilot on Board shows us the highly responsible work of pilots, through all seasons, in different circumstances, ships and ports in Finland year 2013.
A hypocritical emigrant is collecting dust his chamber with having only the amusements of chess and nightmares. Prickly cheater messes up the game.
Shades of light, dark, and significantly grey, are explored in Orbit, which depicts notions of adultery. In this project, which blends elements of concrete and abstract, women of various ages give insights into their thoughts and feelings on their affairs. As they do, the black and white preconceptions slowly begin to melt off rugged, wrinkled, skin, which the camera interprets from an almost obscenely close distance.
Story about the monetary problems of a movie producer and the pain and joy of film-making
The film in its entirety is set in the forest: the protagonists sleep under spruce trees, make art, hunt with their dogs, hold techno raves in the summer night and earn their living as forest owners. As the film progresses, one gains a more versatile view of the forest as a biological organism, a spiritual retreat for humans, a source of inspiration and as a complete living environment supporting us all.
One of Finland's most respected filmmakers, Veikko Aaltonen directs his first documentary about the changes of his home country since its admittance into the European Union in 1996. Most Finns are only one or two generations removed from farming. Even today, the country remains sharply bifurcated between traditional rural communities and cosmopolitan, urban society. The five years since Finland's entrance into the E.U. has been marked by a radical shift in its population -- largely to the detriment of its traditions and values. Aaltonen focuses on five people from three different areas, documenting their attempts at maintaining their traditional lifestyle. Some give up trying to improve and enlarge their farms after beating their heads against successive walls of bureaucratic indifference. Others score small, if temporary, victories, such as rescuing their traditional schoolhouse from destruction.
Finnish telemarketing company founder Miksu has died under mysterious circumstances. He has left behind tens of thousands of debt. Miksu's employees Jere and Henkka has been dragged for questioning. Both of them had a motive to kill their old boss and mentor.
The story, set in the 19th century, revolves around the hot-blooded Jussi, a young farmer, and his friend Antti and their brushes with the local nimismies (sheriff) and the häjyt (badmen). The film, shot on location on the plains of Ostrobothnia, conveys a good sense of its unique landscape. Both Järviluoma and the director, Jalmari Lahdensuo were from Ostrobothnia and the film successfully expresses a feeling of the true spirit of the province.
F*** Off! shows no false respect towards the authorities in its impudent and candid reportage of the developing country/welfare state Finland. It is a cinematic parallel to Donner's New Book of Our Land (1967). The travelogue focuses especially on Finland's outsiders, low-paid workers and the unemployed. In desolate provinces, the inhabitants of a cold and barren country either humbly abide their fate, choose to move to Sweden or take refuge in excessive drinking. These images are accompanied by protest songs based on Donner's own prose and the lyrics of poet Jarkko Laine. Perkele is embodied in big business and the political elite.The jagged (anti)aesthetics of the film correspond to the underground movement and the radical politics of the time. The camera agilely penetrates everyday life. Though opposed to censorship, Fuck Off! itself transgresses the boundaries of privacy.
Little Peke the donkey embarks on an exhilarating adventure as he joins in the festivities of a vibrant birthday celebration.
Week of Finnish barbecue lifestyle in Pori.
A documentary film about two single mothers.
A TV movie based on Pentti Haanpää's novel, which tells the story of the power struggle between Sergeant Sado and Corporal Kärnä.
The Finnish designer Henrik Wahlforss had a flourishing career in industrial design and innovation in the 1970s. In 1980, he decided, however, to leave his career to write a book. Not any book; he wanted to write his prediction about the future, which became for him a life-long project. Combining archive material, interviews, and dramatizations, the film Tidresenären brings the viewer closer to Wahlforss’s fascinating life and predictions.
A boy and a fish in the middle of the seals. Who will be eaten... alive?!
Anna tells the story of a woman of the Nganasan, a severely endangered people of the Taymyr Peninsula.
This documentary by the Finnish Broadcasting Company covers the Finnish national ice hockey team preparing for the spring 1974 World Championships. The film crew is there at meetings, training sessions, tactical meetings and also visits the infirmary. Along with the coaches Kalevi Numminen, Raimo Määttänen and the team leader Teuvo Peltola we also see glimpses of Heikki Riihiranta, Juhani Tamminen, Lasse Oksanen, Stig Wetzell and Veli-Pekka Ketola.
Film by Sami van Ingen
Helsinki museum aide Sami idolizes visiting art star Camilo Delgado, but a night of volatile connection pushes him toward truths about ambition, devotion, and the dangerous light that powers genius.
Growing up story of a high school girl that struggles with the emptiness of her life.