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- An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.
- The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- A small, Finnish seaside town is preparing to celebrate midsummer's eve. An unknown enemy arrives and takes the entire area hostage.
- A ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.
- 25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has found them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland.
- Mika's (Ilkka Koivula) mother marries a man who is getting out of the jail. At the beginning everything seems to be all right. Mika leaves Oulu, an industrial city up in Northern Finland, to study in the capital, Helsinki. He does very well with his studies and also begins a relationship with the girl he knew already back in Oulu. Meanwhile the new husband reveals his true self - and all of a sudden things get very serious.
- A summer romance remembered.
- The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
- 'Everbody Loves' is the English translation: as indeed they all here do as some fellahs get smitten by a couple of comely young fillies, whilst Mothers - (and one wife) - supervise / interfere, depending on your take on romance blossoming.
- Angela serves during Finland's Continuation War (1941-1944) as a nurse at a war hospital. There she meets Thomas Schmidt, a German officer who, in part, lost his memory due to her injuries. They fall in love.
- A romantic story about a rich girl, who is not used to household work, charms many men while working in the "Haukka" manor. The reason for this undercover work is a bet. Despite being a bad cook she soon becomes attracted to engineer Karma.
- In the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbours, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
- It is the year 1915, and five Finnish men ski to Sweden via the Gulf of Bothnia to get military training in Germany. Among the men are Martti and Kalpa from the 27th Army Ranger Battalion. In the reserve, the troops spend their free time in a café called the Golden Anchor, owned by Sonja Strand. Sonja's captain serves in the Russian army, and Sonja has a relationship with Baron von Lichtenstein, who exploits Sonja who spies on Russia using Jew Isaac as her messenger.
- Portrays the cityscape without its inhabitants, making it both abstract and beautiful - post-apocalyptic in the present day.
- A poor young man gets a job as a scapegoat for other workers' mistakes in a fine department store.
- The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
- This government-run propaganda film introduces the nature, sports, military, agriculture and capital of Finland.
- Lifelong work falls apart when Elias meets his fate by ending up in a life sentence. His career, that had become the only meaningful thing in his life, led him to commit his last mistake. Charged with murder, Elias finds himself on a prison island as a fisherman whose only duty is to catch daily fish. He feels like he's losing his life purpose until short daily meetings with a female prisoner become bright spots in his tough daily routines. When Elias and his new love are separated from each other, he has found something to aim for. Stakes are dangerously high when Elias makes the plan that could lead to freedom for both of them.
- A fascinating film that uncovers an overlooked area in Finnish history; When German soldiers withdrew from Lapland in 1944, about a thousand Finnish women for various reasons left the country with them, the majority returning by 1948. A quarantine camp in Hanko, interrogations and contempt awaited them in their homeland. The skillful narrative constructs a coherent, cinematic whole from the humane, emotional stories of individual women, who agree to show their names and faces for the very first time in public.
- 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.
- A documentary about a Finnish Summer Camp for boys, founded in 1927. Narrated by the son of the camp's original caretaker family. Interviews with camp children and employees.
- A seed falls from the sky to a pond. The seed begins to sprout. A sprite is born. Swans gather around her and she sends the swans on a voyage to the Moon. The swans must fly there before the sky freezes over.