Movies

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost...

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they...

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a...

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

An exemplary reconstruction of a historical turning point. Time and again, the images and the remembered stories.

A portrait of film actor Kari Väänänen. Väänänen talks openly about his work and himself. Väänänen's...

Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably...

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

After being struggling to finish his ninth book, an irrelevant author decides to try change his methods.

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was...

Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter...

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

The story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.

In a world of cold facts, this film speaking in more than 20 languages offers a vision of a world momentarily united and willing to listen to the...

A documentary about Tapio Rautavaara, a traveler and artist. "The purpose of the film Tapsa was to reflect Rautavaara as a person. He himself gave...