Ulla Simonen

Själö means 'the island of souls', and no name could be more fitting for the island in the Baltic Sea, which for centuries was a last stop for women who were considered social outcasts – and who are today forgotten. They were forcibly placed in a closed institution to be studied, measured and weighed – exactly in the way that nature itself was starting to be examined around the same time. Today, the place is a research centre. A young female scientist collects samples on the island, while the whispering voices of the past and never-sent letters echo in the empty hallways.

A poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to start a new life, but stalled in bureaucratic limbo.

Una noche, el hijo más joven de Sarah (Seána Kerslake) desaparece entre la maleza que hay tras su casa rural. Aunque parece ser la misma persona cuando regresa a casa, su comportamiento comienza a ser cada vez más errático. Pronto, Sarah descubre que puede que el niño que ha vuelto no sea su hijo...

Karin Nordström, violinista, ve su exitosa carrera truncada por un accidente que le quita sensibilidad en las manos. Sin poder tocar de nuevo, recurre a dar clases a jóvenes músicos aspirantes. El ambicioso Antti, dos décadas más joven que ella, atrapa su atención, pero su relación va más allá de sólo maestra y aprendiz, lo que tiene graves consecuencias.

Garden Lovers is a documentary love story about Finnish couples who have a passion for gardening. The film with comic undertones looks at their stories behind the hedges. The garden provides a framework for tales of relationship conflicts and joys; it depicts the many ways in which life can flourish; it gives strength and unites, but it also becomes a meeting place for farewells. There is an invisible bond that grows between the couples in the film; they comment and comfort each other with their own stories.

Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant pilgrimage to the old fairground yard where their friend Sam went missing when they were boys. Both men's' lives are colored by what happened the day their friend was sucked inside the Ghost Train, never to return. This year, Michael has something to tell Peter that will cast fresh light on the incident, something that will change their lives even more than that fateful day 30 years ago...

Rocker Kai Latvalehto has a wife and a son, almost everything a man could wish for. Still, he feels that something is missing. Accompanied by his father, he drives across Sweden to refresh his childhood memories of life in Gothenburg in the 1970’s. This journey of identities brings the two men closer.

A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.