Einari Paakkanen

Einari Paakkanen

Nacimiento : 1980-01-01, Finland

Historia

Einari Paakkanen (born 1980) is a Finnish documentary director focusing on stories of human connection and communication with others. His films have been screened globally in festivals such as the Krakow Film Festival and Nordisk Panorama. His first feature documentary My father from Sirius premiered in the Warsaw Film Festival in 2016 and was broadcasted by Yle, SVT and Arte. Einari has an MA in documentary directing from ESCAC in Barcelona.

Perfil

Einari Paakkanen

Películas

Karaoke paradise
Editor
Un divertido retrato de la pasión finlandesa por los karaokes. Cada personaje de este entrañable documental tiene una historia por compartir. Los karaokes son el antídoto contra la soledad y una medicina para disfrutar en comunidad sin grandes pretensiones. Viajaremos por una Finlandia escondida tras el tópico de un país gélido e inhóspito.
Karaoke paradise
Writer
Un divertido retrato de la pasión finlandesa por los karaokes. Cada personaje de este entrañable documental tiene una historia por compartir. Los karaokes son el antídoto contra la soledad y una medicina para disfrutar en comunidad sin grandes pretensiones. Viajaremos por una Finlandia escondida tras el tópico de un país gélido e inhóspito.
Karaoke paradise
Director
Un divertido retrato de la pasión finlandesa por los karaokes. Cada personaje de este entrañable documental tiene una historia por compartir. Los karaokes son el antídoto contra la soledad y una medicina para disfrutar en comunidad sin grandes pretensiones. Viajaremos por una Finlandia escondida tras el tópico de un país gélido e inhóspito.
Cross-country
Director
The film is a personal documentary and a growth story about ten-year-old Farah who moved to Finland from Palestine.
Where Is Thon?
Editor
One night Thon went drinking with two friends and disappeared. What happened? Where is Thon? A mystery and an absurd manhunt that eventually involves John F. Kennedy, Elvis and the whole planet.
Where Is Thon?
Animation
One night Thon went drinking with two friends and disappeared. What happened? Where is Thon? A mystery and an absurd manhunt that eventually involves John F. Kennedy, Elvis and the whole planet.
Where Is Thon?
Writer
One night Thon went drinking with two friends and disappeared. What happened? Where is Thon? A mystery and an absurd manhunt that eventually involves John F. Kennedy, Elvis and the whole planet.
Where Is Thon?
Director
One night Thon went drinking with two friends and disappeared. What happened? Where is Thon? A mystery and an absurd manhunt that eventually involves John F. Kennedy, Elvis and the whole planet.
My Father from Sirius
Himself
My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father’s worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paakkanen, the father of the director Einari Paakkanen, believes that he’s able to cure people from cancer, see extraterrestial beings and contact the afterlife.
My Father from Sirius
Writer
My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father’s worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paakkanen, the father of the director Einari Paakkanen, believes that he’s able to cure people from cancer, see extraterrestial beings and contact the afterlife.
My Father from Sirius
Screenplay
My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father’s worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paakkanen, the father of the director Einari Paakkanen, believes that he’s able to cure people from cancer, see extraterrestial beings and contact the afterlife.
My Father from Sirius
Director
My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father’s worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paakkanen, the father of the director Einari Paakkanen, believes that he’s able to cure people from cancer, see extraterrestial beings and contact the afterlife.
Promised Land
Co-Writer
A Catastrophic Road Movie documentary in search of a virtuous politician ... that's if he is not extinct ! Antonio , Einari, Ivan ( and a makeshift boom ) travel from Helsinki to Barcelona, Buenos Aires to Montevideo and to the desert of Bolivia in search of a utopia ,an ideal. Something concrete on which to build a new future'
Permanent Together
Writer
The Finest and the Greatest
Assistant Editor
Girls' Night
Assistant Editor
Black Ice
Assistant Editor
Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover
Ganes
Assistant Property Master
Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.
Man Exposed
Editorial Consultant
A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku.