Petri Manninen

Basado en hechos reales. Jussi Ketola, regresa a Finlandia desde la gran depresión golpeará a Estados Unidos solo para enfrentar una creciente agitación política en su país. Una noche de verano de 1930, matones nacionalistas secuestraron violentamente a Ketola de su casa. Golpeado y obligado a caminar por el Camino Eterno hacia la Rusia soviética, donde la crueldad parece no tener fin, su único sueño es volver a toda costa con su familia.

Stuck in the suburbs of Helsinki, 20-year-old Markus plans on moving to New York, his sights set on pursuing streetball fame. With little money behind him, he turns to the local loan shark - and when he discovers that Markus has no plans to repay him, things take a turn for the worse.

Mientras su padre está siempre lejos viajando a través del cielo en la brigada de Santa Claus, el pequeño reno Niko quiere que sus padres se encuentren y finalmente sean una familia unida. Pero su madre tiene una sorpresa: ha conocido a Lenni, un reno que tiene un hijo llamado Jonni. Así, el sueño de unir a sus padres se desintegra. Un día Jonni es secuestrado por el lobo Blado. Acompañado por su fiel amigo, la ardilla voladora llamada Julius, se embarcarán en una aventura en busca de Jonni, a la vez que acepta que tiene una nueva familia.

In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.

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.

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.

The Fakir is fairy tale about the responsibility of ones life, and avoiding it.

Segunda parte del corto "Rare Exports Inc." en el que nos cuentan las normas básicas de conducta a la hora de transportar presas tan especiales.

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.

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.

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.

Junio de 1941, Segunda Guerra Mundial. El teniente Perkola (Peter Franzén) y su prometida Karina (Irina Björklund), enfermera voluntaria en el frente, tienen un breve encuentro en un pueblo de la Carelia soviética. Perkola y sus hombres son enviados a territorio enemigo mientras que las enfermeras son repatriadas a Finlandia. A pesar de que la misión empieza bien, Perkola se entera de que los rusos han atacado a la columna de heridos y enfermeras. La guerra se convierte entonces para el joven en un asunto de carácter personal. (FILMAFFINTY)