Knock, Knock
Leila is a recently divorced woman, who’s husband’s gone and their apartment’s been sold. She looks around the empty rooms and finds it difficult to understand that this is her life.
Movies
In development
The Great Bear
A shaman tells Annika that she has hidden gifts. He’s is manipulative and dangerous but the new-found powers make Annika much more than a victim.
In production
Siblings
Jenna and Joni, twins in their 30’s living in Helsinki, find out that they have a stepsister, Jóna, living in Iceland.
The Magic Life of V
A young woman, called Veera, haunted by her childhood traumas is trying to become more independent through live-role-playing.
Homebound
Homebound is a survival story set in one of the world´s biggest refugee camps.
Close To Me
Aila is looking for a lost cat when she meets Simo, a young man of few words.
One Last Deal
An elderly art dealer Olavi is about to retire. A man who has always put business and art before everything – even his family – cannot imagine life without work.
Heavy Trip
Turo, 25, tries to lead the worst heavy band in Finland; Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival in Norway.
Nordenskiöld’s Last Expedition
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1834-1901) was the first to sail through the Northeast Passage. The film is a documentary on A. E. Nordenskiöld’s expedition to Greenland 1883.
Angel Of The North
Angel of the North is a journey through Finland during which we meet different people who all have a close relationship to the beloved painting; Wounded Angel by Hugo Simberg.
Braguino
Two families, The Braguine and Kilines, live in the middle of the Siberian Taiga. They are part of a community called Old Believers, living by their own rules deep in the forest.
The Good Postman
The Good Postman is a documentary about an almost deserted village on the edge of Europe. It is a story of the people of Great Dervent who have spent their entire lives on the border between East and the West, Islam and Christianity.
Law of the land
A remote Finnish village in Lapland, just across the Swedish border. A retiring police officer learns that his illegitimate son has been released from prison and is terrorizing the area.
Little Wing
Little Wing is a film about Varpu 12, who lives with her mother and wants to find her father and be a child. It is a debut feature by Academy Award® nominated Selma Vilhunen and it won the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2017.
The Young Schjerfbeck
The Young Schjerfbeck tells about ten years (1880-1890) in the life of the artist Helene Schjerfbeck. These are years she spent in France and England, which she assembles an intellectual heritage for her life.
I Love Anna
I Love Anna is a short film about a teenage friendship of Santeri, 13 and Anna, 13.
A Christ In Siberia
A documentary film about the world’s largest and oldest spiritual commune (“Vissarionites”) in the middle of nowhere, in a Siberian taiga, telling a story through the children’s eyes.
Tsamo
In the 1860’s Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer Simon buys a 10-year old Alaskan native American girl and decides to bring her to Finland.
The Fencer
A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950s. Having left Leningrad to escape the secret police, he finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students. Fencer is a film by Klaus Härö and it was nominated in Golden Globes and shortlisted for Oscars.
Escape From Moomin Valley
Escape from Moomin Valley delves into Jansson’s life outside of the Moomins, portraying her early years and her search for an artistic identity in Europe between the two World Wars.
Love & Engineering
Is there an algorithm for love? Atanas, a Bulgarian engineer living in Finland, is determined to find out.
The Look of Silence
Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers.
The Princess of Egypt
Marja’s, 25, life’s center is her 7 year old daughter Julia. The harmony of the family breaks up when Kamaran, an Iranian immigrant understands that he´s Julia´s father.
Omerta
Insurance salesman Hugo Hämäläinen gets stuck between his teenage son and work pressure.
On Your Lips
An afternoon at the amusement park. Viljami, 12, takes a step towards his adolescence.
Happiness
A documentary film about a small boy and how television arrives to the kingdom of Bhutan.
Free The Mind
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety, to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice.
Rat King
Rat King is a film about a teenager getting lost in a virtual world and how addiction to games turns into a nightmare.
All Hallow’s Week
A shooting incident takes place in a small town in Northern Finland. Two witnesses have to cope with sorrow and guilt.
On Shallow Waters
On Shallow Waters is a boat movie about a trip to White Sea via Onega and Stalin’s canals.
Meal With a Deal
A film about customers and customer service. Risto, working on the tills at a burger restaurant, is fed up with his job. Hungry and in a hurry, the famous actress Outi Mäenpää arrives at the restaurant and orders the special price “Meal with a Deal”.
Rules of Single Life
A romantic documentary about love in a foreign city. Four Bulgarian guys emigrated to Helsinki and disillusioned in love decide to give themselves a task: they need to find new girlfriends in Helsinki in 12 months.
Football Is God
Football is God explores the inextricable relation between faith and football, through following three fans of the legendary Club Atlético “Boca” Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Beginning of The End
The beginning of the end is a two-part drama series about finding yourself. Nella, 30, is a Finnish, half Laplander business woman living in Brussels. Because of her assignment, she has to travel to her birthplace in Lapland.
Facing Changes
Beijing is preparing for Olympics. It’s changing faces both symbolically and literally – the middle class invests in plastic surgeries to look more beautiful and westerner.
BAM (Baikal-Amur Magistral)
BAM is a film about the builders of BAM – people who built the future for themselves and their families with their own hands, who grew old and raised their children alongside the track.
Pony Girls
Pony Girls is a long follow-up documentary about 10 – 19 years old girls who take care of ponies and horses in one of the biggest horse riding schools/stables of Finland.
Girls’ Night
It’s Friday night in a Helsinki suburb. Saara and her teenage daughter Inna are getting ready to spend their evenings with their best girlfriends.
Crossing Dates
A film about few people in Bukarest meeting other people in two days. A radio host goes to a prison to meet his look-alike. The prison manager goes to a conference and meets a Finnish officer. A prisoner is set free and meets his sister. These three meetings seems to be random but are they?
The Finest And The Greatest
Comedy about natural selection. Young man who is worried about forthcoming early middle-age is taking part in a speed-dating night. He learns that the evolution is all about adapting. Or is it? Why it looks like those who have already love just gets it more and more?
Black Ice
Black Ice is a suspenseful drama about an unlikely relationship between two women. The main characters, Saara and Tuuli, are irresistible and unpredictable women of equal strength. Saara suspects her husband of having an affair.
Pietà
Pietà is a film about facing sorrow and death. As the main character Maria is finally facing her anger and sorrow, she is forced to give up her illusions that everything is all right in her life.
Family Fortune
Family Fortune, directed by Tonislav Hristov, is an intimate portrait of a Bulgarian family – the film-makers own- that tries to make a living in the midst of unemployment and difficult circumstances.
Mechanical Love
Mechanical Love is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. An old man desperately seeks to keep his memories alive through talking with a baby seal robot called Paro. A child patiently nurses a simple but demanding robot doll and becomes deeply attached to it.
Return to Gorée
The musical road movie, Return to Gorée, tells of African singer Yousson N’Dour’s epic journey following the trail left by slaves and by jazz music they invented.
Damages
What’s an arm and leg really worth? The law firm of Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder is one of the biggest in the U.S.A. to specialize in personal injury and wrongful death cases.
The Fourth Chair
The Fourth Chair is a documentary about negotiations and diplomacy. It is a documentary about fears and emotions of three men trying to make peace in the Balkans.
Art of Selling
An Estonian-Finnish satiric documentary about the early capitalistic religion in Estonia – Art of Selling. In the centre of the film we have Peep, an Estonian star of managing training, whose lectures have almost religious connotations.
Homesick
17-years old Sami is taken to a mental hospital. Sami’s new roommate Rudolf would prefer staying at the hospital for good. A strange relationship develops between the two boys.
Waiting For Alice
A short film about a whole day of waiting. It could also be a film about the problems of meeting yourself. On which side of the mirror is reality more true?
Loggers
Asko is a man, Myrsky (Storm) is a horse. During wintertime they make their living working as loggers in the small suburbian forests of the metropolitan area.
White Terror
White Terror is a document film about an international neo-nazi movement and about how it has changed. The new rich and educated generation has taken over control.
Magician of America
Magician of America is a Finnish documentary film about Esa ”Nätsi” Rossvall – a vagrant and a wanderer – living in a gap between two countries.
Child In Time
Two men – father and son – meet in an empty apartment. All there is left from what once was a family is hatred, disappointment and relationships in vain.
Breather
A document film about Kalle Könkkölä, a little unhealthy boy that became the first ’green’ (kansanedustaja) and an international activist for invalids.
Singer in The Northern Night
There is more to us than meets the eye – and more to opera star Tom Krause than just a great international career. A nostalgic trip to his Finnish native country evokes, not only the empress Theodora and the Black Roses of Sibelius, but also Mozart´s Don Giovanni – as well as a lifelong love story.
Zhang’s Diner
Zhang’s Diner tells the story of Zhang JingTao and his wife Xiao Jing, unemployed Chinese couple who moved to Beijing in search of better life. The reality proved not to be what they expected.
Mana – Beyond Belief
All over the world, in every society, there are objects that have special power over people. An individual object might hold power over only one group or even just one person, but the phenomenon of “power objects” is universal.
In The Dark
A documentary film about an old blind man and his cat in suburbs of Moscow creating also an analogy for both Russian and Western contemporary culture.
Watercolours
Two small boys are going to a local swimming pool to take a part in a diving course. The older one finds his way easily, but the younger can’t really keep up with the course. Finally the younger also finds his way to succeed and so turns the day to its end.
A Decent Factory
A decent Factory is a documentary film about globalisation, using Nokia as the subject.
Ailarin Kaksi Maailmaa
"Ailar’s two worlds is a document about a girl between two cultures; Finnish and Iranian.
Antropology VS. Tenkanen
A document about a fictive character – tram driver Aarne Tenkanen and his influence to the urban finnish culture. Also featuring Sam Inkinen, Owen Kelly and Otto Talvio.
Spectrum Diamond
The movie tells about Smith and his games both trough the game players and through people that knew him. Spectrum Diamond is, however, also a movie about the development of the computer culture.
Swansea Calling
A lyrical document film about Linux-developer Alan Cox and his wife Telsa, in Swansea, Wales.
The Code
Story of Linux, a little operating system that showed the world an alternative. Becoming, along the way, the arch nemesis of the mighty Microsoft.
Jorney in to The Light
Jude and Mia are an ordinary modern couple living in a suburb of Helsinki. Their life has taken the path it is supposed to take nowadays: working hard to build up a career and pay the loans, once a year vacation in Italy, movies, restaurants, good wine and sports.
Minor Incidents
Minor Incidents is a documentary about embarrassing school memories that keep bothering people. A group of Finns of different ages reveal incidents in their lives that still persecute their minds even decades afterwards.
Just Another Ride
Openly recording the personal stories of the youths who survived the crash, Just another ride captures an intimacy which touches the viewer far deeper than any expert analysis, statistics or news stories ever can.
Cities in Change – Berlin
Cities in Change: Berlin is not a conventional television documentary, but a cinematic feature which explores the atmosphere in Berlin.
Kathmandu Rock’n’roll
Kathmandu Rock ’n’ Roll is a documentary movie about young Nepalese men forming a rock group in the capital of Nepal.
Light Snatcher
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Juha Leiviskä is one of the most successful contemporary Finnish architects. Light Snatcher investigates the intricate play of natural light in his architecture.
In production
My Sailor My Love
A widower falls in love with his home aid. His middle age-aged daughter does not approve the relationship. She feels like she´s losing a father she never had. My Sailor, My Love is a film by Golden Globe nominated and Oscar shortlisted director Klaus Härö.
Dark As My Heart
A young man gets drawn into a game of passion, crime and sex. He finds himself invertigating the mysterious disappearance and murder of his mother 10 years earlier. The killer must be somebody very close to him.
Tirlittan
A feature animation about Tirlittan, a girl with golden hair, whose home is struck by lighting. This sets her to wander around the world looking for a new home.