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1. 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
60 min | Drama
The film is a collection of one-minute short films created by 60 filmmakers from around the world on the theme of the death of cinema.
Directors: Phie Ambo, Shinji Aoyama, Jes Benstock, Mark Boswell, Park Chan-wook, Mark Cousins, Dalpalan, Maximilien Dejoie, Gustav Deutsch, Bradley Eros, Feyyaz, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Michael Glawogger, Jorge Michel Grau, Jan Ijäs, Gakuryû Ishii, Jussi Jaakola, Ken Jacobs, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Viktor Kaganovich, Manuela Kaufmann, Aki Kaurismäki, Naomi Kawase, Ville Kerimaa, Eric Khoo, Jeon Kyu-hwan, Malcolm le Grice, Aku Louhimies, Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, Marina Manushenko, Bruce McClure, Brillante Mendoza, Kyungwon Moon, Amir Naderi, Rafi Pitts, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Jussi Reittu, Simon Rumley, Albert Serra, Ronni Shendar, Norbert Shieh, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Auraeus Solito, Mika Taanila, Mart Taniel, Andres Tenusaar, Tom Tykwer, Gillian Wearing, Gereon Wetzel, Ollie Whitehead, Adam Wingard, Michael Winterbottom, Ming Jin Woo, Edmund Yeo, Kari Yli-Annala, Brian Yuzna, Veiko Õunpuu
Votes: 208
2. Impivaara - A New World (2024)
26 min | Short
An experimental imagining of Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi's novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century, focusing on the energetic basis of a Northern welfare state and a possible future emerging from the climate crisis.
Director: Patrik Söderlund | Stars: Sienna Haarma, Ahti Halkka, Elias Heikkilä, Terhi Hirvonen
3. Flame (2018)
15 min | Short
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja - FALLEN ASLEEP WHEN YOUNG (1937) directed by Teuvo ... See full summary »
Director: Sami van Ingen | Stars: Rakel Linnanheimo, Regina Linnanheimo, Kaarlo Oksanen
Votes: 57
4. Hannes Blank (2015)
22 min | Short, Crime, Horror
Director: Eero Tammi | Stars: Joonas Ranta, Esa Anttila, Tiina Bergström, Olli Varja
Votes: 11
5. Preemptive Listening (2024)
89 min | Documentary
Director: Aura Satz | Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Asantewaa Boykin, Daphne Carr, Erin Matariki Carr
6. Consolation Service (2000)
25 min | Short, Drama
Consolation Service follows a young Finnish couple, Anni and J-P, as they make public their decision to divorce. It is set in early spring in Helsinki, with its frozen landscape on the cusp of thawing.
Director: Eija-Liisa Ahtila | Stars: Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, Jarkko Pajunen, Anna-Maria Klintrup, Karoliina Blackburn
Votes: 84
7. Failed Emptiness (2024)
66 min | Drama
Filmed entirely with an industrial thermal camera, Failed Emptiness describes a three-week vacation in the middle of a heatwave. It shows the familiar experience of emptiness when responsibilities end.
Director: Mika Taanila | Star: Ariane Tretow
8. Futuro - Tulevaisuuden olotila (1998)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Follows the rise and fall of Futuro: a pre-fabricated house; a product of post-war Finland, reflecting the period's optimism in technology and attempted subjugation of space.
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Liisa Aminoff, Matti Kuusla, Goldy Olander, Pentti Podschivalow
Votes: 59
9. Return of the Atom (2015)
110 min | Documentary
Introduction to Olkiluoto OL3 nuclear plant building process in Finland. Plant is the first green-lighted nuclear plant in west after Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Directors: Jussi Eerola, Mika Taanila | Stars: Petri Hämäläinen, Heikki Jaakkola, Juha Jaakkola, Ritva Junkkari
Votes: 106
10. Monica in the South Seas (2023)
72 min | Documentary
July 1975. Monica Flaherty, daughter of Robert and Francis Flaherty, cinema verity pioneer Ricky Leacock and Sarah Hudson - Ricky's student at MIT - travel to Samoa, to the island of ... See full summary »
Directors: Mika Taanila, Sami van Ingen | Stars: Monica Flaherty, Richard Leacock, Sarah Hudson, Le'iataualesa Vaiao Ala'ilima
Votes: 21
11. Kauko Röyhkä - Kevät (1991)
5 min | Short, Music
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Kauko Röyhkä, Anton Nikkila, Hannu Toropainen, Petri Vilenius
12. Tectonic Plate (2016)
74 min | Documentary, Drama
A camera-less lettrist film about the fear of flying, security checks and time zones.
Director: Mika Taanila
Votes: 35
13. Toimintahäiriöitä (1990 Video)
17 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
Portrait of a phone prankster who silenced 38,000 extensions for an hour.
Director: Mika Taanila | Star: Jari Siikonen
Votes: 13
14. Thank You for the Music (1997)
23 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Theo Van Leeuwen, Joseph Lanza, Eero Vallila, Kari Vallila
Votes: 11
15. Mulla ei ole mitään (1992)
56 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Kauko Röyhkä, Pekka Gröhn, Gabi Hakanen, Mara Salminen
Votes: 7
16. Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä (2002)
52 min | Documentary
A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art. His project of collecting ... See full synopsis »
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Erkki Kurenniemi, Otso Appelqvist, Henrik Otto Donner, Kari Hakala
Votes: 85
17. Gabrielbakkanaali (1994 TV Special)
232 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A live, four-hour television special produced by four Finnish art universities of music, fine arts, film, theatre and dance.
Directors: Tiina-Maija Lehtonen, Kalevi Uusivuori, Taavi Vartia | Stars: Rauno Ahonen, Hanna Brotherus, Tommi Eronen, Peter Franzén
18. Realms (2018)
20 min | Short
Short film Realms is a voyage through time, evolution and the kingdoms of life towards the natural destruction wrought upon the planet by the human species.
As Ovid writes in Metamorphoses, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Patrik Söderlund
Votes: 28
19. Bittersweet (1995)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Kaisa Rastimo | Stars: Päivi Akonpelto, Petri Hanttu, Kirsti Kuosmanen, Heikki Sankari
Votes: 116
22. Rajamaan kuvia (2000 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
A documentary of Finnish film directors and media artists, now surrounded by the changes in audiovisual culture.
Director: Markku Flink | Stars: Pirjo Honkasalo, Olli Saarela, Milla Moilanen, Ilppo Pohjola
23. Failed Emptiness. Place (2021)
12 min | Short
The days are long. Their core is hot. Thermographic camera looks at a new residential are in eastern Helsinki.
Director: Mika Taanila
24. Täällä tänään, huomenna mennyttä (1999)
5 min | Short
An ordinary girl, symbolizing innocence, the loss of it and the socialization of women.
Director: Heli Rekula | Star: Emma Kutvonen
25. Six Day Run (2013)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A film about one of the most extreme individual endurance sports dating back to the 1870s.
Director: Mika Taanila | Star: Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto
Votes: 24
26. Kauko Röyhkä: Kanerva (1995)
4 min | Short, Music
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Tero Kling, Kauko Röyhkä, Nella Sipilä, Ari Vaahtera
29. Epäonnistunut tyhjyys. Aika (2021)
14 min | Short, Drama
Suddenly there is an enormous amount of time. At first everything is possible. Anything might happen.
Director: Mika Taanila
30. Bildkolven (1994)
18 min | Documentary
A six-part educational series about advertising and media images, aimed at children and youth.
Stars: Maija Fast, Jenny Kjällman, Mia Schybergson, Marcus Rotkirch
31. Mies ja videokamera (2009)
49 min | Documentary
Director: Petri Hagner | Stars: Esko Lönnberg, Mika Rättö, Janne Westerlund, Tomi Leppänen
Votes: 23
32. Kauko Röyhkä - Kultainen aasi (1993)
4 min | Short
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Henna Hyvönen, Tero Kling, Mikko Maasalo, Kauko Röyhkä
37. I Might Be Stuck (2022)
30 min | Short
Too many messages received. Where there is no problem, there is no solution. Cinema performance.
Director: Mika Taanila
38. Spindrift (2013)
13 min | Short
An experiment in "music for black and white TV", exploring audiovisual synesthesia. Original version made in 1966 by Jan Bark and Erkki Kurenniemi. Reconstructed in 2013 by Mika Taanila, Petri Kuljuntausta and Perttu Rastas.
Directors: Petri Kuljuntausta, Mika Taanila
Votes: 14
39. Muuvi 1996 (1996 TV Special)
Music
Director: Olof Qvickström | Stars: Nina Honkanen, Xl5, Juustopäät, Don Huonot
40. Kerro se lyhyesti (2012)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Seppo Kangaspunta, Noora Laaksonen, Mari Lukkari, Sanna Savikko, Iikka Vehkalahti | Stars: Joonas Berghäll, Hannaleena Hauru, Markku Heikkinen, Jukka-Pekka Laakso
43. Patent Nr. 314805 (2020)
2 min | Short
Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before World War I. All images and sounds in this short film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.
Director: Mika Taanila
Votes: 7
44. Tuholaiset (2007)
39 min | Documentary, Short
The Pests is a documentary film about us, the pests and our need for order.
Directors: Mina Laamo, Katja Lautamatti
45. Sydänääniä (1993)
24 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A small-town librarian Maarit is a dreamer and without a man. Everyone thinks she should find a suitable boyfriend. You don't always see what's right in front of you.
Director: Mari Lindqvist | Stars: Tarja Heinula, Petri Viitanen, Virpi Salminen, Tarja Markus
50. 22-Pistepirkko: Birdy (1992 Music Video)
4 min | Short, Music
The music video for the song "Birdy" by the Finnish rock band 22-Pistepirkko from the 1992 album "Big Lupu".
Director: Mika Taanila | Stars: Espe Haverinen, Asko Keränen, P.K. Keränen