Pia Pesonen

Durante la II Guerra Mundial, los soldados finlandeses Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela y Hietanen luchan junto a sus compañeros de armas en el frente. La camaradería, el humor y el deseo de sobrevivir unirán a todos los hombres en este camino de ida y -quizá- vuelta. La guerra revolucionará tanto a los soldados como a los supervivientes, y dejará su huella en toda la nación... Adaptación de la novela de 1954 "El soldado desconocido" del autor finlandés Väinö Linna. Narra las vicisitudes del conflicto bélico en el frente entre los rusos y los finlandeses, desde el punto de vista de los soldados escandinavos.

Basado en hechos reales. Jussi Ketola, regresa a Finlandia desde la gran depresión golpeará a Estados Unidos solo para enfrentar una creciente agitación política en su país. Una noche de verano de 1930, matones nacionalistas secuestraron violentamente a Ketola de su casa. Golpeado y obligado a caminar por el Camino Eterno hacia la Rusia soviética, donde la crueldad parece no tener fin, su único sueño es volver a toda costa con su familia.

Coronada en 1633, a los seis años, la Reina Cristina de Suecia fue una joven dirigente, enigmática y brillante, que combatió a las fuerzas conservadoras para revolucionar Suecia al tiempo que experimentaba el amor y exploraba su incipiente sexualidad. Huérfana de padre, rechazada por su madre y criada en una corte luterana dominada por hombres que pensaban que no tenía otra opción que casarse para tener un heredero, Cristina se vio envuelta entre la pasión y la razón. Revolucionaria, estudiosa de las artes y las ciencias, amiga de Descartes, librepensadora, precursora del movimiento feminista. Cristina era al mismo tiempo confusa, inquieta, excéntrica, solitaria, y en la corte todos subestimaban tanto su mente brillante como el despertar de la atracción que sentía por la condesa Ebba Sparre. Dividida por el conflicto que le planteaban sus aspiraciones políticas y sus deseos personales, Cristina tomaría una de las decisiones más controvertidas de la historia.

Other Girls tells the story of four young girls nearing graduation, all of them struggling with various issues.

Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.

Un arisco anciano choca con su nuera cuando, a consecuencia de una caída, tenga que trasladarse a vivir con la familia de su hijo a Helsinski, una ciudad moderna, lejos de su entorno. Su nuera es una mujer de carrera que no tiene tiempo para perder con un cascarrabias. Las cosas se complican cuando el gruñón decide ayudar a su nuera a cerrar un trato con unos empresarios rusos y mejorar la relación con su hijo.

El líder de una banda de skinheads racistas encuentra que sus prejuicios y lealtades están enfrentados a su deseo de amor y conformar una familia, cuando se enamora de una camarera cuyo hijo es de ascendencia africana.

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality!

Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.

Después de una sucesión de extrañas muertes en las estaciones de metro de Helsinki, la policía se encuentra desconcertada, nadie ha visto nada y las cintas del circuito cerrado de vigilancia no muestran nada. El sargento de policía Timo Harjunpaa de la unidad de crímenes violentos de Helsinki ha visto de cerca el lado más sórdido de la naturaleza humana a lo largo de su carrera, pero las fuerzas del mal no se había cruzado nunca antes en su camino de manera tan aplastante. Resulta que su adversario es un ser engañado pero peligroso que vive en un bunker subterráneo en medio de una ladera deshabitada de Helsinki. El Sargento Harjunpaa deberá afrontar ahora su caso más aterrador.

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working.

Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.

En 1595, finalizada la interminable guerra entre Suecia y Rusia, los hermanos Knut y Erik dirigen una comisión encargada de trazar las nuevas fronteras. Tras protagonizar un terrible incidente, ambos llegarán a una aldea que no figura en los mapas y que cuenta con una sauna de piedra en la que se pueden lavar los pecados del cuerpo y del alma. (extraído de CinemaSitges.com). (FILMAFFINITY)

1918. La guerra civil finlandesa: los socialistas rojos contra los burgueses blancos. Miina Malin, una mujer fuerte e inteligente que lucha en el Ejército Rojo, consigue escapar de las garras de los blancos. Poco después, uno de los soldados blancos, Aaro Harjula, vuelve a capturarla. Pero al contrario que otros soldados blancos, no quiere matarla, sino llevarla ante un tribunal para que tenga un juicio justo. El encuentro entre Aaro y Miina une dos poderosas historias y enciende la chispa de un tenso amor entre los horrores de la guerra

Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.

Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in Germany. Anna is not excited about Pete's plan to leave her alone for the summer. Therefore Anna decides to present a challenge to Pete: She will form a team from the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, and then the women's team (FC Venus) would play against FC HeMan. If the women's team wins, the men will have to give up football, and if the men's team wins, the women will never complain about their hobby.

Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.

30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction

Jukka, 13, is coached in photography by his openly gay art teacher. With his dead father's old camera, Jukka sees Johanna, a beautiful girl in her early twenties being physically abused by her stepfather. With the help of the local fire department, Jukka comes to her rescue. He quickly befriends the girl who works in a nearby supermarket, claims to become her manager and enters her in a beauty contest.

Ari de 27 años (Mikko Nousiainen) es un doctor de ambulancias que trabaja en el cuerpo de bomberos de Turku. Fuera de su trabajo, su principal afición son las noches y tiene como norma no acostarse dos veces con la misma mujer porque está seguro que el compromiso es dolor y él no desea herir a nadie. Todo en la vida de Ari marcha bien excepto ese profundo sentimiento de vacío. Pero cuando Ari conoce a Tina (Laura Malmivaara) algo inesperado ocurre: Ari se enamora.