Martti Turunen

Películas

How to Fix the World
Sound Designer
How to Fix the World? is a comprehensive and informative documentary about direct action in the 1990s and 2000s, directed by Jouko Aaltonen. In the documentary, anarchists, climate activists, and squatters openly describe their experiences and link them to mainstream phenomena in society. A wide range of archive material sheds a light on the history of direct action and activism in the Finnish society.
Anerca, Breath of Life
Sound Designer
Markku Lehmuskallio has devoted a large part of his documentary work to the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle. In this latest film, co-directed with his son Johannes Lehmuskallio, he composes a fascinating poetic ethnography inspired by the singing, dancing, forms of contemporary existence and, above all, the vital breath of these nomad communities mistreated by History.
My Dear Mother
Sound Designer
My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she lived with her grandparents, who were Russian Sami. Dasha's father is in jail and her mother was a drug addict. Dasha would like to have contact with her roots and she wants to keep her Sami identity.
Pyhä
Sound Designer
Within Limits
Sound Designer
A political documentary by Annika Grof.
Searching Lännen-Jukka
Mix Technician
Finnish singer songwriter J. Karjalainen creates a new artist character called Lännen-Jukka. As Lännen-Jukka he goes to the USA to find the origin of Finnish American folkmusic. He meets Finnish Americans and performs with them and to them.
Helsinki, Forever
Sound
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
Lännen-Jukka in America
Mix Technician
Finnish singer songwriter J. Karjalainen creates a new artist character called Lännen-Jukka. As Lännen-Jukka he goes to the USA to find the origin of Finnish American folkmusic. He meets Finnish Americans and performs with them and to them. This is 10min shorter than film called Searching Lännen-Jukka and has some different material.
Shadow of the Holy Book
Sound
An investigative documentary about the violation of human rights in Turkmenistan, and the willingness of Western companies to turn a blind eye for financial gain.
Bus
Sound Director
This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.
Damn Ruskies
Sound Editor
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work
Sound Editor
TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998.
Too Tired to Hate
Sound Designer
This modern western depicting juvenile crime takes as its theme the struggle of an individual against a vicious circle of violence. The spiral of violence and revenge is only broken when one person conquers himself and refuses to continue the vendetta. Siim, a 14-year old who grew up in the streets, is only spared the violence because he has a natural antipathy to it. Ultimately he too is caught up in the fighting when he tries to save money for his girlfriend's Christmas gift and the cash is stolen.
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
Sound Editor
A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking and finally she stopped growing. The village priest in Estonia has explained to the family that seven devils have made a home inside Tanjuska. These devils are giving her orders and only a daily ceremony can force the devils to leave the girl.
Mysterion
Other
A documentary about a convent of Russian Orthodox nuns in Estonia who have dedicated their lives to serving God.
Mysterion
Sound Mixer
A documentary about a convent of Russian Orthodox nuns in Estonia who have dedicated their lives to serving God.
The Wrestler
Sound Recordist
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Madeleine
Sound Designer
TV movie based on Christer Kihlman's novel. Writer Ralf spends the summer at the old family villa with his wife Madeleine and children. Family friend Christian lives nearby. The events of the blazing summer days drive these people into a crisis, where pent-up emotions, love, jealousy, guilt and fears come out. The film tells about a person's difficulty in finding himself, another person and a relationship with today's world.
Dos años en Finlandia
Sound
Portrait of the Chilean community in that country, from the perspective of the filmmaker, a political exile after the 1973 coup d'état.