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In this warm-hearted puppet animation documentary, we get to know the filmmaker’s 54-year-old mother Maija through her phone calls. We see how she copes with the difficult things in her life, like alcoholism and autism, demanding family members, and various absurd situations that seem to follow her.
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Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.
Producer
After being struggling to finish his ninth book, an irrelevant author decides to try change his methods.
Producer
Jalil is 17-year-old boy living with his Iranian family in a suburb near Helsinki. Though he has lived in Finland all his life, it seems hard for him to find acceptance among the "native" Finns. At home he faces the opposite problem. His parents demand him to respect Iranian cultural traditions. Jalil is about one day in the life of a boy standing on the edge of two cultures. On this summer day big things are bound to culminate; religion, identity, love.
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恋人も友人もいない夜警員コイスティネンは、カフェで声を掛けてきた美しい女ミルヤに恋をする。しかし彼女はマフィアが送り込んだ情婦だった。強盗の罪を擦りつけられたコイスティネンは逮捕され、1年間の服役を言い渡されてしまう。
Producer
An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has quietly blamed herself through decades.
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Short documentary about life in a little town called Bico in the northern Portugal.
Production Manager
A short film by Aki Kaurismäki. It was shot in 2001 as a test before filming The Man Without a Past, featuring much of the same cast. Markku Peltola plays a man who leaves his company and boards a train to Moscow with the woman he is going to marry.
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A short film by Aki Kaurismäki. It was shot in 2001 as a test before filming The Man Without a Past, featuring much of the same cast. Markku Peltola plays a man who leaves his company and boards a train to Moscow with the woman he is going to marry.
Production Manager
ある日列車に揺られ、夜のヘルシンキに流れ着いた一人の男。公園のベンチで夜明けを待っていた彼は突然暴漢に襲われ、瀕死の重傷を負う。男は病院で奇跡的に意識を取り戻すが、過去の記憶を全て失っていた。身分証もなく、自分の名前すらも分からない有様。しかし、幸運にもそんな彼にコンテナで暮らす一家が手を差し伸べ、男は彼らと共に穏やかな生活を送り始める。そして救世軍からスープが振る舞われる金曜日。男はコンテナの主人に連れられ支給場所へとやって来る。そこで男は救世軍の女性イルマと運命的な出会いを果たすのだった…。
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The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.
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