Pirkko Saisio

Año 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck vive como artista olvidada con su anciana madre en el campo. Han pasado años desde la última exhibición, y Helene continúa pintando solo por su pasión. Todo cambia cuando un marchante de arte encuentra a Helen y sus 159 maravillosas pinturas, y quiere organizar una gran exposición privada. Sin embargo, el punto de inflexión de Helen llega solo cuando le presentan a Einar Reuter. El joven Einar es un forestal, un entusiasta del arte y un apasionado admirador del trabajo de Helene. Se convierte en el amante y de confianza de Helen.

Finlandia /// Simo es un chico solitario que está empezando a descubrir su homosexualidad. El joven no tiene padre y su madre tiene una vida vacía y sólo trabaja para el cuidado de sus hijosEl joven tiene un hermano que debe volver a la cárcel a cumplir su pena. Sin embargo, pasarán un día juntos, algo que será una mala influencia para el chico, dado que su hermano es un maleante que no tiene aprecio por el mundo y sólo sueña con escorpiones.

A Finnish drama about the short term of Finland's first female prime minister, Anneli Jäätteenmäki.

A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...

Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not so much a narration of his childhood and early years, as an attempt to artistically show what was happening inside his psyche during that time. Literally sold to a master teacher, Sergei Rippas (Tarmo Manni) by his mother when he was still a child, the violin prodigy was forcefully and strictly raised to practice, practice, and perfect his technique. Once an adult, Arsi finds a way to escape the rigors of a U.S. tour and drowns his overworked self in drink, or seeks out one-night stands, or otherwise lets off steam. The tightly-wound spring that has been coiled since he was forced into his grueling training and work sessions -- shown through symbolic images -- eventually snaps in a healthy way, freeing Arsi at last to continue on, simply for the love of music.