Kari Kankaanpää

Películas

Kaukainen planeetta
Production Design
The last part of Juho Kuosmanen's silent film trilogy.
The Worst Idea Ever
Production Design
The lifelong friendship between the two game developers begins to fray as one longs for nostalgia of her youth, and the other for marriage and a life abroad. When old grudges surface at a LARP-themed bachelorette party, it's time to find out who's living whose dream.
Erik Stoneheart
Art Direction
Erik is convinced he has a stone for a heart. That’s why he doesn’t mind that his parents have no time for him, or that he is bullied at school, or that he has no real friends. When his family moves to a villa they inherited, he is confronted by Maria whom Erik's parents want to kick out along with her father. Maria refuses to move and promises to make Erik's life a living hell. As a last attempt to defeat Erik, Maria goes to look for her mother who disappeared two years ago. Together they end up on a fantastical journey to the In-Between-World and Erik learns how hard it really is to wear a heart of stone.
Erik Stoneheart
Production Design
Erik is convinced he has a stone for a heart. That’s why he doesn’t mind that his parents have no time for him, or that he is bullied at school, or that he has no real friends. When his family moves to a villa they inherited, he is confronted by Maria whom Erik's parents want to kick out along with her father. Maria refuses to move and promises to make Erik's life a living hell. As a last attempt to defeat Erik, Maria goes to look for her mother who disappeared two years ago. Together they end up on a fantastical journey to the In-Between-World and Erik learns how hard it really is to wear a heart of stone.
Kikka!
Production Design
Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.
Compartimento Nº 6
Production Design
Una joven finlandesa toma un tren hacia Moscú para ir al yacimiento arqueológico de Múrmansk. Tendrá que compartir su compartimento con un desconocido. Esta convivencia y unos encuentros improbables unirán poco a poco a estos dos seres completamente opuestos.
Any Day Now
Production Design
Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. Their routines are fractured by a negative decision on their application for asylum by the Finnish Immigration Service. But life must go on and the 13-year-old Ramin is about to enter an entirely new school, junior high. The Mehdipours use their last chance to appeal but continue their everyday lives, fuelled by their exceptionally positive outlook and attitude.
Kristal
Production Design
The film is about a show dancer, Kristal, 40+ years, blond hair woman, who with a Lada car goes around small pubs and entertains people. First she seems a bit ridiculous, self-sufficient and naive, a potential victim, an circus animal, but she comes out as something else. Kristal is a weird saint, who takes to bear all the hate, despair, lust and confusion around her and through that gives people a momentary relief.
Hardballer
Production Design
HARDBALLER is an action comedy of a man, who can’t admit his doubts and fears about his impending marriage, until he gets thrown into a situation of life and death during his bachelor party gone horribly wrong.
Aurora
Production Design
Aurora conoce a Darian en un puesto de perritos calientes. Darian escapa de la muerte y Aurora escapa del amor. Se necesitan el uno al otro para dejar de escapar.
It Came from the Desert
Production Design
It Came From the Desert pretende ser una comedia de acción y terror con hormigas gigantes en medio del desierto de Nuevo México. El film se centra en el legado del juego y nos contará una historia original con nuevos personajes que décadas más tarde descubrirán un nuevo terror. (FILMAFFINITY)
Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara
Production Design
There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.
Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
Production Design
A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
El día más feliz en la vida de Olli Mäki
Production Design
En el verano de 1962, Olli Mäki aspira al título de campeón del mundo de peso pluma en boxeo. En todas partes, tanto en el campo como en Helsinki, le predicen un futuro lleno de éxito. Sólo tiene que perder peso y concentrarse. Pero, hay un problema, Olli se ha enamorado de Raija.
The Midwife
Production Design
Retrata el romance entre una partera lapona y un oficial nazi de la SS, en el contexto de la Guerra de Laponia que enfrentó a los ejércitos de Finlandia y Alemania entre 1944 y 1945.
Lovemilla
Production Design
Aimo and Milla are living together at Milla's alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place. They save money to move out of the house. Due to his lack of self confidence, Aimo wastes their savings to turbo-boost his muscles. As conventional body building is not quite satisfactory, Aimo tunes himself up into a robot. Milla doesn't like the new Aimo-Robot and leaves him. Aimo´s heartache leads him to extreme measures as he also changes his heart into a metal one, one that doesn't hurt. Milla decides to steal Aimo heart: after all, a woman needs to have a man´s heart. Lovemilla is an anarchistic comedy trip, a comedy about love, a story about love, robots and bodybuilding.
Mistaken
Production Design
Nick Mayers, a music icon, comes to believe that he is the only real person around whom the world revolves. When Nick announces this belief and refuses to perform on the night of a big concert, he sees how quickly his world turns against him. His theory is put to a test as he tries to escape his world.
Hella W
Set Designer
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.
A Rare Grand Alignment
Production Design
Directed by Cinqué Lee. Plot currently unknown.