Steam of Life (2010)

フィンランドの山奥で、元CIA工作員の父親に格闘に関するテクニックを教え込まれたハンナ。彼女は、人の痛みを知らず感情を持たないまま16歳になる。すでに父親の戦闘能力を超えていたハンナは、ある任務のためにヨーロッパへと旅立つが、父親の同僚だったCIA捜査官のマリッサがしつこく追ってくる。

国際会議に出席するためフィンランドの首都ヘルシンキに向かって飛行中の米大統領専用機エアフォースワンとその護衛機が、何者かが発射した地対空ミサイルで撃墜された。米国大統領のムーアは間一髪ポッドに乗って脱出し難を逃れる。ムーアの乗ったポッドはフィンランドの森の中に着地。彼は誕生日を迎え、一人前の男となる試練に挑むフィンランド人の少年オスカリと出会う。だが、ムーアの命を狙う敵が近づきつつあった。

多くの人が失業しているフィンランドで、ラモはグローバル企業の「VALAケミカル社」での職にありつく。この会社は、子供たちを人体実験に使い、“NH25ワクチン”で富を得ようとする巨大な犯罪組織だった。不信感を抱いたラモは、機密資料を盗むが……。

父親を捜し出し、希望をもたらす贈り物を持ち帰るため、長く危険な旅に出た少年ニコラス。運命に導かれるように、エルフが暮らす辺境の地にたどり着くが...。

生まれつきの醜い容姿のせいで孤独な人生を送る税関職員の女性が、謎めいた旅行者と出会ったことから衝撃の真実と対峙することになり……。スウェーデンの巨匠リンドクヴィストの原作・脚本による切ない北欧ミステリー。

地球という星の、ロサンゼルス、ニューヨーク、パリ、ローマ、ヘルシンキという5つの都市で、5人のタクシー・ドライバーが乗客を乗せた。同じ夜にそれぞれに繰り広げられる5つの物語。本作はジャームッシュの作品に共通して見られる奇妙な可笑しさ、卓越したセンスが冴える会話に加え、背景に広がる空しさに満ちた荒涼感は健在であり、その独自の雰囲気で好き嫌いがハッキリと二分される彼の作品にしては割りと門戸が広く、様々な人が楽しめる作品に仕上がっている。特に、ニューヨークが舞台の話と、ロベルト・ベニーニ主演によるパリの話がお勧め。

To understand firsthand what the United States of America can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” some to see what they have to offer.

Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.

Summer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija.

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.

Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.

サチエ（小林聡美）はフィンランドの都市、ヘルシンキで「かもめ食堂」という名の日本食の小さな店を営んでいる。ある日食堂にやってきた日本かぶれの青年に「ガッチャマンの歌の歌詞」を質問されるが、思い出せず悶々としていると、町の書店で背の高い日本人女性ミドリ（片桐はいり）を見かける。もしや、と思い試しに「ガッチャマンの歌詞を教えて下さい!」と話しかけると、見事に全歌詞を書き上げる。旅をしようと世界地図の前で目をつぶり、指した所がフィンランドだった…というミドリに「何かを感じた」サチエは、彼女を家に招き入れ、やがて食堂で働いてもらうことに。 一方、マサコ（もたいまさこ）は両親の介護という人生の大役を務め終え、息抜きにフィンランドにたどり着いたものの、手違いで荷物が紛失してしまう。航空会社が荷物を探す間にかもめ食堂へとたどりつく。 生い立ちも性格も年齢も違う3人の女性が、奇妙な巡り合わせでかもめ食堂に集まった…。

With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.

Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.