Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 68
- 16-year-old Elvis and Onerva fall for each other, but soon a white lie drives the small community they live in to a point where somebody should do something.
- It was supposed to be the perfect day for the 25 year old birthday girl Donna, but everything is about to be ruined because her friends don't follow her plans. The carefully organized activities turn into a game of "who is who's favorite" and when even her best friend betrays her, the beast inside Donna awakens.
- 27-year-old Mona works alone at a remote grill, studies again for the upcoming entrance exams and endlessly misses her spouse Helga, who is on a business trip. A new employee starts at the grill, 19-year-old lively and unbalanced Leo, who in all his likability makes Mona miss her past.
- A Finnish family gathers to spend a weekend together at grandparents'. By looking at recognizable patterns, the film is a subtly humoristic study in family dynamics and structures.
- A shared moment by a fire in the remains of an Eastern Finnish rural community. The lines between light and dark, past and present start to waver. It Takes Years to Reach Us is a meditation on remembering while we drift on.
- Helena is spending an evening with her family when someone knocks on the door. Unknown man confronts Helena with accusations towards her perfect family. Helena drives the man and the accusations away. But the seed of doubt has been planted.
- By means of a lifelike simulation, Nora meets an AI version of the child she could have.
- In the 1990s Finland was faced with a serious financial crisis. Over 400k unemployed, nearly 200k bankruptcies and a whole national offspring of insecurity were born in a few years. How does childhood look like from adulthood?
- Rebekka and Aatos, stuck in the past, meet for the first time since their painful breakup at their treasured poetry slam. It's easier to sing about longing than to talk about it.
- As an impending invasion of space crabs threaten Earth, Pirjo and her alien pet crab Sebastian attempt a desperate escape.
- After her father's funeral, Maarit plans to return to Thailand but she finds her mother Sylvi, and her father's taxidermy badger in a bar. Sylvi makes a revelation that may change Maarit's departure plans.
- A quiet observation of the people among us who are only visible through cameras, their need to be seen and the loneliness that connects us all.
- Rose Garden is an absurd story about institutionalized elderly care and lust for life.
- Nesting is an absurd yet realistic story about the troubles of trying to find the right way to say goodbye.
- In Finland, during isolation, teddy bears were put in the window to entertain the children. But the loneliness of the covid period almost overwhelms the Teddy Bear.
- Arvo is lonely, and his annoying big sister Ulla is no help. Arvo decides to get himself a new friend: a parakeet.
- Story about 29-year-old Krisu, who is quite lost in her life. Luckily, she has a indie band called Wendy and the Refugee Neverland.
- Soviet Union has just fallen down. Mr. and Mrs. Kettunen are celebrating their tenth anniversary. But will their marriage fall apart as well?
- In 1994, two video game enthusiasts start documenting "the game industry". Passion, madness and naked programmers fly around as they film the barely 20 years old guys and their strict boss, working and living at Finland's only game studio.
- Deeply depressed guardian angel Olivia finds it hard to adapt to Heaven's positive atmosphere. As a punishment she gets sent down to take care of Miina: a party girl in denial of her fatal condition.
- A film about family gatherings, sacrifices and dissappointments.
- Jari is a middle aged poorly employed and mediocre schlager musician who's landed a gig as a stand-in drummer in a band whose members - Eliel, Niko and Essi - are all twenty years younger than he. Jari is joining the budding musicians to play at a wedding. The orchestra prepares in a small, traditional workers' house, and as Jari gets dressed he notices that, unusually, the tie he finds in his garment bag is untied. Jari doesn't know how to tie a tie, but can't ask his younger colleagues for help, as he's already spent the whole evening dishing out fatherly advice to them. He has a few minutes to come up with a solution to his problem without making a fool of himself. Wedding Waltz is a comedy about what happens backstage at the workers' house during the moments before the first dance. It's a humoristic overview of the Finnish people in gladrags and, above all, it's a film about pride which turns on itself.
- Having tearful goodbyes with family and friends, a young provincial girl graduates from her school before moving to a big city far away.
- Once a week in a hotel room a girl and a boy share a strange but intimate moment. Only this time she finds herself crossing a line, that has never been crossed before.
- A bittersweet and heartwarming short documentary road movie about a Ukrainian Mariia and her mother Liubov, who depart their newly adopted wintery hometown of Somero and start on a journey through Europe, towards Mariia's big dream of visiting Paris and studying in France. The war looms in the background in the form of remembrance, loss, and unanswered phone calls, but in its core, the film tells a more universal story of the power of dreaming, transition, shedding the weight of patriarchy and the sacrifices parents make to pave way for the young.
- Where light breaks into shards is a poetic short film about an encounter between a human and a bladderwrack on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The theme is interpreted through the memories of the sea and it invites the viewer to contemplate ones own relationship towards other species.
- Three friends celebrate midsummer together in a remote house. The next morning one of them is missing. Lila and Siiri recount their different takes on last night's events, trying to figure out where Riina could be.
- Three siblings engage in a game of hide-and-seek that transcends into a hallucinatory exploration of time, collective memory, and the power of play as a cohesive force.
- A couple tries to awaken their faded love by feeding it earthly possessions. But regret and paranoia arise when their tenderness transforms into mental violence towards oneself and the other.
- 'Come as you are, alpacas will welcome you'. Drama / comedy
- Two friends are on the road. A short stop at the gas station will change the course of their journey.
- 'Please hold' is a short film about a teenage girl, who is desperately waiting for her mother to come home. But just how much longer can she wait?
- Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.
- An idyllic cabin trip turns into a nightmare as a suppressed memory brings jealousy and paranoia turning three young women against each other.
- Antti, a musher from Northern Finland, won't give up his way of life despite being advised contrarily. In the dogsled world there is no going back after hopping on the sledge. "Polar Night Light" is a short documentary of love for sled dogs. The film follows Antti during the polar night while his freedom to be himself is being compromised.
- Short documentary about true bugs and humans. Short film is also a compassion practice and small journey from human perspective to other playful ways to see.
- The meditative essay film studies the human inflicted changes in the environment through human perception and experience.
- In a dystopian world where people must simply follow the instructions of the Ruler, the murderer has to murder the victim, and the police has to catch the murderer. To follow the rules, somebody has to die.