Pini Hellstedt

Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his tail, paranoia and self-loathing over old wrongs eventually lead to a traffic accident. Jarna can no longer escape, his pace slows and he is on the verge of giving up. The moment has come when a near-lifetime of running must come to an end.

Director, Joonas Berghäll, suffers from chronic Lyme disease. He looks for a cure to his illness and by doing so finds himself thrown into the midst of a worldwide lobby-driven and political medical debate about Lyme disease and the threat of it becoming the next wide scale epidemic.

The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010.

Copenhague, Dinamarca, 1951. El investigador criminal Anders Olsen sigue el caso de un ladrón de bancos que, según los testigos presenciales, parece haber actuado bajo algún tipo de trance.

Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.

Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones. Nokia’s annual budget was larger than that of the Government of Finland and their phones spread everywhere and changed the whole culture of communication. But then something changed. Film portrays the rise and fall of Nokia and the Finnish mobile phone industry. Nokia engineers, designers and managers tell their story about the creation, success and downfall of the Finnish mobile phone.

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.

El detective privado Jussi Vares encuentra dos cadáveres en una casa remota. Un año después, contratan a Vares para investigar el caso. Vares se acerca de forma peligrosa al “Consejo” – un club secreto para caballeros, a la cabeza del cual está “El Sheriff”. Para los miembros del Consejo, la vida humana es barata. La identidad del Sheriff ha sido revelada – pero ¿tendrá que afrontar a la justicia por los crímenes cometidos en un juzgado? ¿O saldrá impune por estos actos malvados?.

Un arisco anciano choca con su nuera cuando, a consecuencia de una caída, tenga que trasladarse a vivir con la familia de su hijo a Helsinski, una ciudad moderna, lejos de su entorno. Su nuera es una mujer de carrera que no tiene tiempo para perder con un cascarrabias. Las cosas se complican cuando el gruñón decide ayudar a su nuera a cerrar un trato con unos empresarios rusos y mejorar la relación con su hijo.

Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

Life for Sale is the story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed.

1966, Tomppa y sus amigos Krisu y Kari ya se les está quedando pequeño su negocio de venta ilegal de alcohol en Punavuori, Helsinki. A base de puño y mal carácter expanden su territorio y aumentan sus ganancias. Pero también están al tanto de que su estilo de vida solo tiene tres destinos: seguir adelante, la cárcel o la muerte.

Relato de supervivencia sobre un adolescente enviado a un reformatorio para chicos en una remota isla. Largometraje basado en una novela de Leena Lander que intentó comprar un estudio de Hollywood, pero acabó en manos de una de las grandes figuras del cine finlandés, Markus Selin (Solar Films). Seleccionada por Finlandia como candidata al Oscar 2009 a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.

The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.

Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.

26-year old Satu is a high profile press officer at a leading mobile phone giant. When her former co-worker at the daily press disappears mysteriously, she fears a connection between the launch of a new mobile and a secret report how already shipped phones cause brain cancer...

Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in which two guys argue about McDonald's hamburgers. Still, VARES - PRIVATE EYE, by director Aleksi Mäkelä, manages to be kind of fun even not especially original. The script has more characters than the screenwriter can handle, leaving the audience frequently confused about who is doing what and why. The two best scenes are one about a wacky wedding and another about a guy who answers a cell phone call while he is busy enjoying the pleasures of a sex parlor.

Cuatro hermanos finlandeses, apodados "Eura Daltons", recibieron notoriedad en todo el país por arrancar las bombas de gas cuando necesitaban dinero. La película más taquillera en Finlandia después de El Señor de los Anillos: el retorno del Rey en 2003. Recaudó casi 4 millones €, lo que la convierte en la película finlandesa más taquillera de la historia.

Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys.

A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.

Häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.

In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.

Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next door.

This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.

Monologue movie that won Jussi Award in Best Actress category. Middle aged woman tells about her life in restaurant.

Short film by Tapio Piirainen that is his diploma work when graduating from TaiK / Department of Film, Television and Scenography.

Finlandia, Octubre de 1939. La crisis diplomática abierta entre el país finés y la URSS a causa de las exigencias territoriales de Stalin hace que el ejército finés se movilice. A través de la historia de los hermanos Martti y Paavo Hakala, enviados a combatir junto con su compañía al frente, asistiremos a las visicitudes de la cruenta guerra de invierno que Finlandia libró contra el ejército Rojo en unas durísimas condiciones climáticas y en franca inferioridad material frente al poderoso ejército sovietico. La versión extendida para televisión consta en total de 250 minutos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Finlandia, Octubre de 1939. La crisis diplomática abierta entre el país finés y la URSS a causa de las exigencias territoriales de Stalin hace que el ejército finés se movilice. A través de la historia de los hermanos Martti y Paavo Hakala, enviados a combatir junto con su compañía al frente, asistiremos a las visicitudes de la cruenta guerra de invierno que Finlandia libró contra el ejército Rojo en unas durísimas condiciones climáticas y en franca inferioridad material frente al poderoso ejército sovietico. La versión extendida para televisión consta en total de 250 minutos. (FILMAFFINITY)

A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties.

Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.

Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.