Hanna Kuirinlahti

A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The journey leads him back to his teenage years in the 1990s depression, over-generational substance abuse and past encounters. This partly essayistic, autobiographical documentary tells the story of friendship and generational experiences while also pondering on the causes and effects of destinies in the judgmental atmosphere of our society.

Three perspectives on loneliness, how it feels and how it can be survived: “If I could just dance with somebody once more.”

Recently unemployed and feeling a little bit lost, Maria takes part in stand-up class and ends up on a competition tour for novice comedians.

En el verano de sus vidas, tres adolescentes finlandeses se debatiran entre Jesús y los primeros amores en el debut de la directora Ulla Heikkilä, que traza un sutil y revelador retrato de los caminos de la fe y la liberación sexual en la volatil etapa vital que es la adolescencia. Cada verano, los adolescentes finlandeses que practican el catolicismo se preparan para ir al campamento donde se confirmarán ante los ojos de Dios, y la iglesia. En este particular verano, conoceremos a cuatro de ellos, todos divididos entre su identidad religiosa, la independencia y el cosquilleo del primer amor.

Jane, una chica de un pueblo pequeño, se mudó a Helsinki y el mundo finalmente está abierto para ella. Apasionada y emocionada, busca la aventura, todas las cosas que ha anhelado durante tanto tiempo. Jane gravita a un bar gay por la noche, se tambalea en su estado de ánimo nervioso, y de repente allí, justo a su lado, Jane encuentra a su salvador: Piki, la perra más elegante de la ciudad. Piki es perfecto Jane está hipnotizada por la voz oscura de Piki. Piki le ofrece un universo completamente nuevo, y aún más, sueños.

A shopping trip gets an unexpected ending, when two utterly unknown men take their measure with social media videos rather than fists.

A lonely woman, yearning to be caressed, allows a man to transform her into a puppet. The Puppet Master is a fantasy drama that combines actors and puppets in a poetic story about longing for love, living in an objectifying relationship and clinging to another person.

Pony and Birdboy tells a story of seven-year-old girl Pony, who doesn’t want to go to school, and big-mouthed Birdboy who has solution to all possible problems. Humoristic family-film Pony and Birdboy is partly based on Veera Salmi’s popular children’s book The Book of Pony and Birdboy, which rich humor and anarchist hustle have brought the book as a favorite of children.

Recently divorced Helena is getting anxious about spending christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend old time christmas on a farm - only place they can afford.

A documentary film about the entrepreneur Mohamed El Fatatry.

Amuli Edelmann interpreta a Viktor Kärppä, ex agente especial de Rusia atormentado por su pasado. Se instala en Finlandia, el país de sus antepasados, y trata de ganarse la vida tanto como un investigador privado y facilitador de negocios para los inmigrantes rusos, pero se encuentra permanentemente asociado con el crimen organizado. Kärppa no es un asesino, aunque se parece a uno. ¿Puede un hombre cambiar su identidad, o arrojar su lealtad, simplemente mediante el cruce de una frontera?

Loving someone of the same gender is frowned upon in Sami communities. Sparrooabbán (Me and my little sister) shows what it’s like to be a minority within a minority. Suvi describes how her little sister Kaisa wishes to be accepted as she is. Like her sister, Kaisa is a Sami, but also in a relationship with a woman, and she also works as a deacon. There are obviously more constricting communities in the film than only one.

Marzia, My Friend is the story of an Afghan woman in her twenties, who like all young people dreams of love, freedom and an interesting job. She dreams of peace and independence, but because she lives in Afghanistan, her dreams are revolutionary. Ultimately Marzia’s story becomes a symbol of the wider struggle of Afghan women: it is about the right to make decisions about your own life. The film follows Marzia’s life from spring 2011 to the end of 2014, when international troops were due to leave Afghanistan.

Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.

25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!

Iran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.

Rouva Presidentti is a documentary on Tarja Halonen, the 11th President of Finland. The movie follows Halonen for one and a half years, during her last times as President.

Out into the big wide world as fast as possible. That’s Elli’s plan. But where should she get the money from, if not steal it? When Heze falls for her, she steals from him and both have to learn: “Adulthood is a big pain in the arse”.