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By means of exploring visual associations, City People Shapes draws a connection between the city – its architecture and street objects on the one hand, and its most dominant inhabitant – human. In this interplay, does a human subjugate the city, or rather, does the city bend the human?
A Spring Bright Evening is a live action animation with a musical score performed by the academic fraternity choir, Brahe Djäknar. The film is set inside a, for many, closed and secretive world that plays a formative role in contemporary society through networking and tradition-making. It shows etiquette and gestures that are codified to become signifiers of belonging.
The film is a fictional melodrama about sacrificing oneself for friendships. It depicts friendship as a fundamental power that supports life, and can accompany you through whatever: the darkest fears, traumas, pain and changes. But then again, relationships with friends can also be harrowing love stories which include heartbreaks, possessiveness and fear of losing someone.
Searching for serenity, a determined little girl escapes to the wilderness. Her journey ends, only when she is wild enough to become a part of it.
The point of no return.
During the curfew, Anna and her husband Andros are trapped in their apartment. Anna tries to prevent her husband, a photographer, not to make a risky adventure. Andros doesn’t listen – and gets killed. Later Anna does her own adventure. A short movie about love, death and the irresistible desire to expose oneself to danger even in the most hazardous situations.
This is a film about the passions of the human relationship with nature. A journey to the roots of the passion takes us to the backwoods of rural Finland. On our way, we encounter eccentric fellows, who have devoted their lives to nature. They are haunted by the call of the wild, the idea of being part of nature, or the sensation of companionship with wild animals. On one hand, the nature must be protected from the human influence. On the other hand one has a lust to get where no one has gone before. In order to get in touch with nature, one relies on technologies that separate his body from it. We are guided by the enthusiasts’ passions to the nature of their experiences. What do they tell of our modern life?
Five native sámis interviewed. They tell how they live as a sámi in Finland.
Sari loves movies, lives in the Helsinki Central Station, and keeps her belongings in a luggage cart. Sometimes she sleeps in a hotel and washes her laundry in the sink. The COVID-19 pandemic took away one of her regular places to stay, cruise ships to Sweden.
Drawing upon Sufi traditions of interpreting Islamic sacred texts where love and equality are celebrated, Journey to the CharBagh is a poetic and experimental exploration of queerness from a Muslim perspective. The narrative focuses on the figure of the Buraq, a winged mythological creature with the ability to travel to heaven, encountering terrestrial and celestial beings, moving toward a spiritual and queer awakening.
In the documentary, we meet three young British women whose lives are overshadowed by congenital or accidental facial deformities. Although the insecurity related to the face limits women's everyday life in a superficial society, we see how the constant struggle with appearance can also empower in unexpected ways.
28-year-old Jack, 19-year-old Jessica and 15-year-old Freya talk about what life is like as a short young person and the challenges they face.
Children do gymnastics under the guidance of their mother.
Aava takes her new girlfriend out to her family’s old summer house to meet her sister. What was supposed to be a fun weekend clearing out the house, turns into a dark journey of suppressed memories and dangerous relationships, when Aava starts remembering what she has preferred to forget. As the past treads out of the fog, tension and jealousy rise between the three young women, and Aava starts to distrust everyone – even herself.
The construction of a traditional Finnish log house.
From a Distance allows the forest animals to take the forefront, to be and observe. Humans do not report or explain, but are present only as sounds of passing cars or on a look-out in a bird tower – as if being part of a herd themselves.
A man playing with his phone painfully learns that the legendary serial killer Jason Voorhees can't stand the urgency of social media.
28-year-old Jack, 19-year-old Jessica and 15-year-old Freya talk about what life is like as a short young person and the challenges they face.
Children do gymnastics under the guidance of their mother.
Aava takes her new girlfriend out to her family’s old summer house to meet her sister. What was supposed to be a fun weekend clearing out the house, turns into a dark journey of suppressed memories and dangerous relationships, when Aava starts remembering what she has preferred to forget. As the past treads out of the fog, tension and jealousy rise between the three young women, and Aava starts to distrust everyone – even herself.
Anna, a young Christian, is convinced she has to save her brother from the wrong path. But who gets to decide what kind of love is right?
From a Distance allows the forest animals to take the forefront, to be and observe. Humans do not report or explain, but are present only as sounds of passing cars or on a look-out in a bird tower – as if being part of a herd themselves.
A fiction-movie demonstrates the basic capabilities of a Swedish made robot, model 37i. It is a video guide that ships with each android and is used as a demonstration of 37i’s functionality.
Documentary about the finnish libraries and their innovations.
Documentary about the Finnish folk group Paavoharju. Also includes an extra 58 minutes of music videos and live footage.
A group of former Finnish special forces operatives seek for new challenges as they plan to ski unsupported across the Greenland ice sheet. The plan is to travel from west coast to the east coast in 36 days or less.
A skeleton comes out of the cupboard and takes over his host's life.
This is a documentary about the Finnish-Soviet Winter War (Talvisota) of 1939-1940. It contains rare and never before seen footage from the official film archives (Sota-arkisto) of the Finnish army.
Looking for new and stronger stimuli leads the protagonists of the documentary to somewhat unique activities. The teenage girls become involved with a kind of a masochistic therapy which involves tying and compressing each other with ropes. These apparently shocking practices give rise to a reflection upon one’s own corporality and the relationship between power and trust.
Arab asylum seekers changes the lives of many people in Seinäjoki.
A bird and a bat are neighbors in a tree. Their different lifestyles lead to conflict between them.
Movies supporting power is rhythm, and the dialog between sign language and dance. Emotions, signs and their adaptations in dance are all stemming from Inarisami poetry, lore, livđe and proverb tradition that create a foundation for the movie. Utilizing different documentation techniques movie brings forth new ways to present dancing and sign language. Rhythm is continual in sound, motion, shapes, angles and landscapes in the movie.
A gáhpir is a women’s headdress and a gate to ancestors, and it also reminds its wearer of the importance of traditions. The gate opens up a way to the mountains, to the landscapes where the ancestors once stood, breathing in the same air and admiring their surroundings.
Old dark jugend villa draws a high school girl away from drawing class to explore it.
"The Åkerblom Movement" - Attempted murder and perjury are not usually associated with a Christian movement. But members of Maria Åkerblom's cult would be convicted for both of them. In her youth Maria Åkerblom (1898-1981) experienced holy visions and revelations. She became a so-called sleep preacher who held her sermon in a translucent state, claiming that her words came directly from God.
Brothers are fishing for the first grayling of their lives at Deatnu-river. Little brother is puzzled what to do with the fish and tries to kill the fish by imitating his father.
For every generation there is a war story to be told. The story is told in the evenings. It is like a movie about the good and the bad, us and them, profits and losses. Some images are so impressive that they are turned into symbols and monuments; beginnings, turning points and endings. This is a film about the story of war which the evening news told to us, growing up in the 1990s. The story was told with images of burning oil fields. It was reported that on its withdrawal the defeated side ignited the oil wells in fire, causing major financial losses. There were no images of human casualties. The story began when we were kids and it still goes on.
A documentary that follows the life of filmmaker, musician and novelist Mika Rättö.
The film is about the Winter War 1939-40 in Uusimaa, Turku, Pori and Vyborg.
ME/WE, OKAY, and GRAY consists of a short three-episode film and a 3-monitor installation. The installation is intended for showing in museums and galleries, and the episodes of the film version in cinemas among trailers and between the adverts on television. ME/WE is about balancing individual identity and about control. In an absurd episode a nuclear family of four is in the backyard hanging out white sheets to dry. The story is told via a monologue by the father. He mirrors himself and his life in the members of his family, seeing himself at moments when he recognises differences and similarities. Darkness falls – the sheets glow in the night like blank white screens. The father directs his words to viewers. His voice also speaks the other characters’ lines, with the others opening and closing their mouths in the appropriate rhythms. Who in the end is speaking, what is an individual and where are the boundaries of the self?
A story about a father. And about eating, sleeping and brushing teeth.
The world won't stop turning even when one stops turning with it.
A girl discovers a young man playing with a lasso in the living room.