Discoveries from Finland World Cinema

Two worlds collide in gravity altering love. The darkness of the mind enters.

Stalag is an abbreviated term from the German “Stammlager”, which referred to a field of military prisoners of war during World War II. In Guatemala, almost forty years later, the term Stalag acquires a new dimension. The model villages were spaces in the Guatemalan rural areas where they forced thousands of civilians, previously terrorized by government brutality led by Ríos Montt. Likewise, the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PAC), a paramilitary apparatus still in force in Guatemala, marked the last detachment in the damaged social fabric of Guatemala. As in Headline Today: Guatemala and in Armored Daydreams, Mikael Wahlforss presents us in Stalag Guatemala the testimonies of victims and perpetrators without makeup and without distortion of the facts. The anecdotes of one and the other flow across the screen transporting the viewer to that Guatemala in which men, women and children are indifferently victims and witnesses of state repression.

A marginalized man resorts to extreme measures to take revenge on his neighbor, but his plan gets out of hand.

Finland's most iconic fictional police detective, Inspector Palmu is assigned to investigate when three youngsters go missing near Espoo. The evidence begins to mount that the case is extremely Lovecraftian.

A visitor's arrival to a mysterious house takes a strange turn when it becomes clear that the inhabitant has met him before. During a day spent together, the pair's shared past is uncovered, and their futures begin to intertwine.

Under the Sun tells the story of the life choices of an acclaimed writer. He is on his way to somewhere, maybe into the night, or perhaps into the light. As memories start to flood into his mind, he has to face the consequences of his choices prematurely. And perhaps make a new one. Amor fati.

Short film about drunken farmer who kills 4 police officers.

Based on an actual trial, in which youths opposing The Vietnam War were being accused of provoking people to commit an arsony.

Bertie is a 10-year-old boy who loves making complicated plans. His next big plan is to bring more romance into his parents’ relationship who seem to squabble non-stop. He finds out they were once happy, in a remote natural reserve, Bear Park. Surely returning there would fix their romance! That’s why Bertie urgently needs to win the inter-school skiing race with a prize trip to Bear Park. But Bertie has no talent for sports. Plus it's a relay competition for teams, and he is not very good at making friends either. Luckily Bertie bumps into Milly, an orphan – and a bear. Bertie helps Milly hide and finds out that she is superior in skiing. Could Milly take Bertie’s place in the competition?

Haïti Chérie is a respond to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. A few weeks after the catastrophe Huber carries out a performance over the snowy, seemingly endless, frozen sea in Finland, waters carrying on to reach the coasts of Haiti. Snow angels drawn by Huber’s body symbolize sorrow and lives lost, but also solidarity and hope.

On a remote island, a lost woman seeks shelter on a rocky beach. After a security guard demolishes her makeshift hut, she is once again forced into uncertainty. She finds refuge with a young man who longs to visit his estranged mother.

I have lost everything again. Again, I have nothing to lose. An unnamed woman breaks up with her extraterrestrial lover and runs away to Italy in search of new meaning. Seasons change while she repeats old familial conflicts, makes experimental video art and is haunted by the idea of eternal return. Will our lives recur in the same form infinitely, with no escape? Sacr3: Eternal Return is the final part in the Sacre trilogy by Anni Puolakka and Jaakko Pallasvuo.

Peippo’s film rolls from 1974 with “tourist” written on the package lead to a mysterious journey through Suomenlinna.

The police need temporary help due to illness, so Pekka Puupää and his neighbor Pukkila sign up as temporary police officers. Soon, the bumbling duo finds themselves in the middle of a kidnapping case.

A ironical sequel to "Finlandia-katsaus" newsreel.

Presentation documentary film about Lappajärvi municipality and local culture from 1960's.

Documentary about middle-aged men's ballet group.

Amorphis at Ruissalo, Turku, Finland Shades of Gray Sampo Silver Bride Narrow Path Hopeless Days Into Hiding On Rich and Poor Nightbird's Song The Wanderer The Smoke House of Sleep

Complex but compelling investigation of sound/image relationship shot in Berlin. Top prize at Knokke-le-Zoute film festival l975.

Alex Lommo, an Ex-Nato Commando, must rescue his old pal Colonel Fägerlund from the hands of Evil corporation Metacom, which has developed a new terrible biological weapon which turns people into mind controlled zombies.

The artist’s early-period soft-but-hard brutalism is a dark parody of participatory children’s television. Not for the faint-hearted.

A snail is crushed by a car, a dog defecates while a tourist jumps from the tallest skyscraper in the world. A series of slices of everyday life spirals into chaos.

Documenting the vanishing trade of seal hunting at the Gulf of Bothnia

On a Greek beach teeming with tourists, Nadia and Samara, two young Romani sisters, try to sell toys to sunbathers. To holidaymakers, they are merely part of the summer landscape – present, yet almost invisible.

A look into a day of roadies of the Finnish rock band Hurriganes.

Film about a cellar connected to film production.

The beauty of April, the sun, when the joy of life returns.

this is not my fault. this is not his fault. this is your fault.

The latest film by Tomi “Malakias” Malki, the creator of the animation The Fruits of Wrath, is a snapshot in the spirit of Kalervo Palsa, true to its creator's style.

Introducing Lake Saarijärvi, located in the middle of Finland.

Skiing and ski lessons at the Vuokatti Sports Institute.

Uses of plastic and its manufacture.

The film teaches us the basics of swimming jumps.

Dramatized documentary, providing guidance on traffic safety for children.

Demonstration of various cars, passenger cars, trucks, buses and work machines, such as combine harvesters, forklifts, caterpillars, asphalt pavers, in a normal working environment.

Reserve Officers' School activities.

Fertilizer factory operations, agriculture.

The eightieth convocation of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Helsinki in 1951, a "random passerby" as a surprise visitor to the convocation ceremonies.

Film crew's trip to Stockholm.

Nurse training.

An agricultural documentary about Lapland. The documentary discusses the operations of the Muddusniemi experimental farm and the adaptation of Lapland's special conditions to agriculture.

Ruins of St. Olav's Monastery in Turku, paintings revealed under the plaster. Paintings by artist Nikolai Kaario. Yläne Manor, pictures found in the manor.

Reconstruction, operations of Suomen Huolto.

Top American athletes who were successful at the London Olympics will compete in international athletics competitions at Helsinki Stadium.

The Coalition's election film. Episodes of a grandfather and a young man discussing the ideas and politics of the time on a "Sunday walk" are shown as a frame story. In addition, a speech by the chairman of the Coalition's parliamentary group, Arvo Salminen, about the party's goals.

The morning program begins with a good day greeting from the film's narrator, Count Baron Carl-Erik Creutz. After this, commentators Pekka Tiilikainen and Eero Leväluoma and announcers Matti Tamminen and Kaisu Puuska, among others, join the campaign. "Uncle Markus" Rautio and parliamentary reporter Leo Meller also testify to the breadth of the program. The film moves from the room of program director Jussi Koskiluoma to the studios and workshops, until the camera has to face the director general at a session of the program council. The popular "Mini Parliament" gets a place when the "Radio Discussion Club", which has been meeting since the summer of 1945, lets its candidates elected by parliamentary power be heard by all the people, led by SKDL's Hella Wuolijoki.

Fishing fair and boat exhibition at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre.

Autumn arrives, the leaves fall from the trees and finally the first snow covers the ground.

An introductory film about the town of Forssa and a dramatized part of the town's creation around the brick manufacturer Wahren's company.

Pictures from Central Ostrobothnia from cultural and economic perspectives.

Landscape photos from Häme, including Hämeenlinna and Aulanko,

Minesweeping at the Gulf of Finland