Marja Packalén

When the anarchistic princess of her own life, Princess Itty Bitty is told that her little brother, who still lives in her mother's womb, is about to move into her room, she's had enough. Drawing on the wisdom of her quirky neighbor, Auntie Jenssen, Itty Bitty devises a plan and conjures the bossy grown-ups to Hilldiggle with the help of her magical dog, Sausage.

No Love Lost shot to global fame like a shooting star and made millionaires out of its members. Guitarist Tony drank his millions and hasn't been able to play a chord in years. The guitars have been pawned and no new songs are being written. A message about singer-songwriter Katarina reaches Tony. The singer, who has been sober for a long time, has relapsed into drugs with fatal consequences. Katarina's teenage daughter Ellie, who has been placed in a family home, contacts Tony to find out about her family background. In the process, she reveals a secret to Tony that could enable No Love Lost to make a comeback and save Tony's finances. Tony decides to go to the funeral and get to know his daughter enough to get a DNA sample from her to confirm paternity - and gain access to Katarina's inheritance.

Seija Kuula is a superstar singer and an ageless goddess with a career spanning decades and decades. Problems start to arise when Seija falls in love with a younger guy and everybody around her seem to suffer from a bad case of baby fever. Seija orchestrates a masterplan to make everyone happy only to realize that one can not play with love. 70 Is Just a Number is a warm and humorous coming-of-age story – at 70.

This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden.

Anni, hija de una familia adinerada y solía asegurarse la vida, se enamora de Veikko, un inválido de guerra de la Guerra de Continuación. Anni deja atrás su pasado y comienza a llevar la vida de una pionera, en los bosques salvajes del norte de Karelia, en una granja de asentamiento. Después de un comienzo optimista, el destino aplasta los sueños de Anni y su amor por Veikko se pone a prueba.

Drama finlandés sobre las mujeres que narra la historia de una ejecutiva sin hijos y una joven que trata de huir del dominio de su abuela. Una película dirigida, escrita y producida por mujeres.

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

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?

Koistinen, un guardia de seguridad nocturno, recorre las calles buscando un lugar al sol, pero la indiferencia general destroza, una tras otra, sus modestas esperanzas. Un grupo de mafiosos, que se aprovecha de su sed de amor y de su profesión con la ayuda de una mujer fría y calculadora, organiza un robo del que se acusa sólo a Koistinen. Así, pierde su trabajo, su libertad y sus sueños. Tercera parte de la trilogía que empezó con "Nubes pasajeras" (1996) y "Un hombre sin pasado" (2002).

Katri y Janne son jóvenes, guapos y tienen una buena situación económica. El grupo de amigos de Katri y Janne practican viajes de aventura. Es importante estar un paso delante de los demás y vivir experiencias extremas. Katri y Janne llevan mucho tiempo sin compartir juntos tales experiencias. En la fiesta de su nuevo jefe Erik Stein, Janne conoce a un agente de viajes, que le ofrece una nueva manera de viajar. La empresa IH-tours organiza viajes de aventura a otras realidades en el país: 1) sin techo en Espoo, 2) trabajador por turnos en Vantaa o 3) una vida diaria como desempleado en el barrio de Jakomäki. Janne y Katri quieren mostrar que se atreven, y eligen la tercera opción, el de los cesantes. ¿Como se acostumbrarán a la nueva vida diaria en la cual el pan de cada día no esta garantizado?. ¿Qué queda de una persona, cuando se le quita todo lo superficial? En Jakomäki, Katri y Janne emprenden una aventura que ninguno de sus amigos ha vivido.

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.

Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.

Una joven solitaria hace un trabajo mecánico y rutinario en una fábrica de cerillas. Cuando llega a casa debe soportar a su perverso padrastro y la falta de cariño de su madre. Por las noches sale a bailar intentando divertirse y encontrar pareja, pero nunca tiene suerte.

Premiada por la Sociedad de Críticos de Estados Unidos en 1990 como la mejor película extranjera, este filme es una exploración de la realidad finlandesa: desempleo, corrupción y vigilancia policial...

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.

Finnish soft erotic movie

A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.

Ordinary winter holiday turns into an adventure when trash starts to rain from the sky and all the holes in the city disappear. Snot and Splash solve the mystery, and at the same time save the world from being sucked into a black hole.