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Ned and Billy are living off-grid at an abandoned industrial site, where Ned practices his self-developed religion - including some atrocities. Billy is forced to follow, but everything changes when the local society collapsing due to an emergency forces young Gabriel to camp close to Ned and Billy. Gabriel discovers a secret of Billy's past and tries to save him from Ned's dictatorship.
Educational short film in which an innocent young woman goes to a party and is pressured by a sleazy lothario into drinking too much.
Vägarna kring Rovaniemi is a poignant and impressive little masterpiece about the final stages of the war and the post-war period in Lapland.
A documentary about the seal hunting practices amid pack ice on the Gulf of Finland
An experimental short film by Risto Jarva.
Short about a coffee break.
Shot in Watch Dogs 2.
Veteran soldier-skiers of the Winter War, today take part in an annual skiing competition. The Skiers tells the story in a handful of words and a few telling pictures.
Documentary film about Africa.
Dreamy and somewhat awkward 15-year-old Erik experiences the first heartbreak of his life when he falls in love with his fun-loving classmate Betsy. Unexpectedly, Betsy invites him to be her date for the Epiphany dance. Erik's proud entrance to the dance with Betsy turns into humiliation as the evening progresses, when Betsy pushes him aside and completely forgets about him. In preparing for the Epiphany ball, Erik has squandered all his savings, so he can no longer dream of a microscope with 250x magnification.
Documentary film about Paul Siitoin, the son of Pekka Siitoin.
Hunger and privation have made life a living hell for a fish in a goldfish bowl. Because his owner doesn’t feed him properly, the fish’s attention begins to wander more and more often to the house next door. Perhaps he will find help from the neighbours – in particular from the little girl who lives there. When there is no improvement in sight to his sad lot, he decides to break out of the tortuous confines of his bowl.
Documentary film about statue in Helsinki.
Documentary about Estonia's richest woman.
A short animated documentary exploring near-death experiences through five culturally diverse narratives, using real audio recordings. Through experimental visuals, it guides viewers on a transcendent voyage beyond mortality, unveiling how these experiences profoundly impact the essence of life, blurring the boundaries between existence and the mysteries of the afterlife.
Oksana, a Ukrainian doctor, is living in Finland when Russia attacks Ukraine. She hops on a bus with Finnish volunteers and heads to the border of Ukraine and Poland. The goal of these rescue operations is to bring as many Ukrainians fleeing the war to Finland as possible.
Behind the Mask is a survey into the political landscape of Finnish youth on the eve of The Finnish Parliamentary Election of 2023. What does the average young person think about politics? Who do they vote for?
What will the future look like in a world facing escalating climate change? Director and screenwriter Anu Pennanen asks random petrol station visitors to imagine what the future will look like. Will humans be able to solve the climate crisis and save our own lives? The petrol station serves as a starting point for future visions and dystopias. How is traffic in five years, and how do we move from one place to another? Can we avoid wars if we keep using fossil fuels?
Niina Vuorisara’s experimental documentary short One of Us takes a harrowing journey to memories of a childhood riddled with sibling violence. “It’s hard to talk about these things. But this is how I see it, how things went – and how I remember them,” the director’s own voice tells on the soundtrack. In the images, a sister sits on a hearse alongside the coffin of her brother who committed suicide. Archival material, fictional and animated scenes blend on the trip to the past moving on the limits of fiction and documentary.
We witness the end of our world every day. The melting glaciers are the teardrops of our grandmother. My people have been here since the last ice age, and when the glaciers are gone, we will be gone too.
Livvi-Karelian-speaking oral poet and rock musician Santtu Karhu and his band Santtu Karhu ja Talvisovat on tour in Olonets Karelia. They travel from Petrozavodsk to small Karelian villages, where the Livvi-Karelian language is still alive.
No Life No Limits
Cinematic equivalent of a 7-inch vinyl record and a bow to the Finnish ufologist Juhan af Grann.
As a child, Anna was afraid of fairy tales, and as an adult, she's afraid of reality. The story begins as Anna revisits her childhood home and realizes that her childhood world no longer exists.
An ancient golem must carry its old friend, a monk in a trance, across the world to a holy place to be enlightened. However, the journey is not easy with dangers lurking, and the golem realises that the time has come to let go of a lifelong friend.
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.
Four Pieces on Being Seen is a community dance film where participants articulate their experiences on their queer identity and how they would like to be seen. It was developed with community participants found through an open call in the spring of 2022.
Documentary comedy about Soviet Union, and Finnish vodka tourists travelling to Leningdrad to drink and live like lords.
Animated stories of Santa Clause and Christmas based on a book by Mauri Kunnas by the same name.
A musical short film that showcases the best aspects of Kainuu, honestly depicts the challenges facing the region, and vows that cooperation will lead to a new era of prosperity for this beloved homeland by leveraging the region's own strengths. Saga Caiania is a tribute to Kainuu, and its fictional story is told through three musical parts.
A lovelorn traffic warden must make a choice when her principles get in the way of her being accepted by others.
A woman’s uterus is the source of all life. However, none of us remember what the uterus sounds and looks like. Uterus Galaxy is an experimental animated documentary that explores what happens in the uterus when a 32-year-old woman is wondering whether she wants a baby or not.
The Gulf War, a media nightmare, violates the homely peace. But are the newspapers only paper, and the news only ink? Is it possible to make sense of the consequences and the dimensions of these phenomena? The piece observes the world literally from the point of view of a home video.
A young man in his bathtub travels to China, Murmansk and Paris.
Granada, Terhi’s first car is broken. Money is tight and fixing the car is expensive. Terhi’s mother insists on getting rid of the useless vehicle that has become a money pit. Terhi is hoping to get the repairs done and drive the car to Germany, where it could be sold for a higher price. Letting go of an old, historic car proves to be harder than expected.
Several films have been made about the lives of train hobos, but Aleksi Pohjavirta's A Good Day to Die is probably the first Finnish documentary on the subject. The film follows Billy, who travels in a pump on freight trains. In the way of life, the feeling of freedom and letting yourself be carried away by chance are attractive and they make the train bomb strive for a windy ride again and again.
Kati Sinenmaa wanted to break away from the dependence on society, and in the spring of 2001 she started building her own fortress in the forest in Pasila. Hiltunen photographed the life of Sinenmaa for 4 years.
"This is like Spinal Tap, but for real". A film about a teenage rock band and the back side of the music industry.
Juha Taskinen is Finland's best-known photographer of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal and has done his life's work protecting this beautiful home species of Lake Saimaa.
A documentary film that interweaves the lives of two main characters: Sergey and Anna. Sergey is an entrepreneur who provides military tours to foreigners. His story is about the rise of his small empire, from a small company made with the help of friends to a huge money machine that becomes the most successful firm for extreme tourism in Ukraine. Anna is a volunteer who had to escape from Donetsk (her hometown) at the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. She teaches art and games to children and often travels to Donbas to provide them dresses and toys. This life gives her meaning and fulfillment, but after meeting Alex on a night train, she falls in love with him and abandons her ideals. Unfortunately, Alex leaves her when she gets pregnant with his baby. She's alone in Kyiv with no money and no place to live, facing an uncertain fate. Will their paths cross? What do their stories tell us about modern Ukraine?
'Grey' is the second part of a series of experimental films dealing with emotional distress caused by the death of a close person. The film depicts a stand still and the pressure for building a new life: the encountering of the greyness of the everyday life and re-connecting with the outside world.
A documentary about the destruction of the childhood landscape.
Gabriel found a very nice bike. Unfortunately, there is a little detail that bothers him: it's pink.
Plumber's Crusty Paradise
Team Splattenstein's "signature film" – and, depending on how you count, the first part of a four-part trilogy.
"Taiga" is an elegy to boreal forest. In south Finland taiga has already started to change to temperate forest. This tactile film is made on16mm film without camera. It combines hand scratched animation with real tiny plants and moss collected in subarctic region in Finland.
Kurdish child bride Nasrin becomes independent in Finland against her husband’s will. The punishment is harsh. But Nasrin doesn’t give up. She wants to win the battle for her rights.
The Big Crunch is a video installation that presents images to the viewer that communicate the presence of humans on earth, evolution and human intelligence. All images are carefully composited according to the divine proportions. We see images poetically and metaphorically representing the beginning of mathematical innovations to the projected end of the world, the big crunch. Our observations and our learning shape the universe into being, time is a creation of our minds, laws are generated by our thoughts and conclusions.
Turbulent Waters follows three lookalike young women in different parts of Europe ruined by rains, drought and storm, whose lives are surprisingly intertwined. It is a contemporary ghost story that deals with global environmental destabilisation through the intersection of three stories.
Where do nightmares come from? In sámi mythology it is believed that deattán causes them.