Jenni Toivoniemi

Historia

Jenni Toivoniemi is a Finnish screenwriter and film director.

Películas

Sihja - The Rebel Fairy
Writer
Sihja is a young, charming and a little outrageous fairy who leaves her home in the forest. On arrival in the city, she meets a sensitive new friend, a lonely human boy Alfred. Sihja loves the newly found organized urban shapes and orderly habits that the city people have. One day dead birds appear on the city streets. Alfred and Sihja must find out what is threatening the nature.
Games People Play
Writer
Un grupo de viejos amigos se reúne en una villa de verano para celebrar una fiesta sorpresa de cumpleaños para Mitzi, quien es el punto focal dramático del grupo. El fin de semana comienza inquietantemente cuando Mitzi no responde bien a la fiesta sorpresa. Resulta que Mitzi acaba de solicitar el divorcio y ha estado esperando un fin de semana tranquilo. La tensa situación da un nuevo giro cuando la mejor amiga de Mitzi trae de visita a su nuevo novio, que resulta ser una estrella de cine sueca. Los entornos familiares y los viejos rituales llegan al núcleo del grupo y les hacen olvidar su edad adulta. Las revelaciones, que no pretenden dañar el equilibrio, les hacen reevaluar tanto su pasado como su presente.
Games People Play
Director
Un grupo de viejos amigos se reúne en una villa de verano para celebrar una fiesta sorpresa de cumpleaños para Mitzi, quien es el punto focal dramático del grupo. El fin de semana comienza inquietantemente cuando Mitzi no responde bien a la fiesta sorpresa. Resulta que Mitzi acaba de solicitar el divorcio y ha estado esperando un fin de semana tranquilo. La tensa situación da un nuevo giro cuando la mejor amiga de Mitzi trae de visita a su nuevo novio, que resulta ser una estrella de cine sueca. Los entornos familiares y los viejos rituales llegan al núcleo del grupo y les hacen olvidar su edad adulta. Las revelaciones, que no pretenden dañar el equilibrio, les hacen reevaluar tanto su pasado como su presente.
Force of Habit
Writer
Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?
Force of Habit
Director
Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?
Festive Spirit
Screenplay
The festive spirit of an office party is ruined, when a woman accidentally reveals that their colleague had harassed her at the previous office party.
Festive Spirit
Director
The festive spirit of an office party is ruined, when a woman accidentally reveals that their colleague had harassed her at the previous office party.
It’s All Right
Screenplay
A raped women meets the authorities.
One-Off Incident
Director
Teenage girls take their shirts off at their own party but get an audience. Emmi says no but does it really mean no? Sonja is tired of her body being a problem to others. Why has nearly every woman such experiences? One-Off Incident short films are part of a film sensation made by fifteen filmmakers, artists, researchers and social activists collectively. The films reveal the hidden way power is exercised on women in both private life and in society. The films are fiction but the stories come from the writers’ own real-life observations.
The Door
Writer
New father Jussi wakes up to sounds in the hallway and encounters a homeless alcoholic Pentti. Things are not always as they seem at first glance.
The Door
Director
New father Jussi wakes up to sounds in the hallway and encounters a homeless alcoholic Pentti. Things are not always as they seem at first glance.
The Committee
Writer
Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise… The delegates are faced with the challenge of making a democratic decision: is there something they can agree on to represent a true Nordic movement?
The Committee
Director
Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise… The delegates are faced with the challenge of making a democratic decision: is there something they can agree on to represent a true Nordic movement?
Korso
Writer
Stuck in the suburbs of Helsinki, 20-year-old Markus plans on moving to New York, his sights set on pursuing streetball fame. With little money behind him, he turns to the local loan shark - and when he discovers that Markus has no plans to repay him, things take a turn for the worse.
Iris
Director
Iris comes to meet her alcoholic father…
The Date
Writer
Tino, 16, has to host a date for the cat of his mother. At first the situation does not please him.
The Date
Director
Tino, 16, has to host a date for the cat of his mother. At first the situation does not please him.
Eve's Call
Writer
Eeva, a young actress who is easily left out, discovers supernatural powers in a mysterious pond near the set, and makes a pact with the pond's devil to become part of the community of others.
Eve's Call
Director
Eeva, a young actress who is easily left out, discovers supernatural powers in a mysterious pond near the set, and makes a pact with the pond's devil to become part of the community of others.