Kari Väänänen

Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina, a single mother, is fired from her job in a bakery and drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border.

Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved Ford Escort and the car has to be scrapped. A new, modern vehicle is no match for quality and the nearest Escort, a 1972 model, can be found in Germany. When the Grumps's sons refuse to help, he must travel to Germany alone.

Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.

전문 요리사이자 최근 아내를 잃은 쳉은 오랜 친구를 만나기 위해 어린 아들과 함께 중국에서 핀란드의 외딴 마을로 여행한다. 그곳에 있는 동안, 그는 우연히 방문한 식당의 주인을 도와 로컬 재료와 중국식 요리법을 절충한 치유 요리로 지역사회의 유명한 구성원이 된다.

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to find a way to get him back to the North Pole in time for Christmas.

In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing.

The Rosvola family – The Robbersons drive around the country in their pirate car robbing bypassing cars of their sweets, extra food and consumer goods. Life changes for the Rosvolas when they accidentally kidnap 10-year-old Vilja, a diligent school girl. Will Vilja succeed in escaping or will she become friends with the Rosvolas´ children Hele (12 years) and Kalle (9 years)? We are the Pirates of the Roads is a funny and crazy adventurous road movie for children.

The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes to a major turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to go. Should he follow his people or his heart?

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.

Visa Vuorio (Tobias Zilliacus), a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen (Helena Vierikko), arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.

Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.

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.

Finnish rocker movie

11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecked on the 21st century Earth with his crew. Originally from the distant future, Pirk and his crew traveled back in time to save the Earth from hostile aliens, but lost their ship and became stranded. Pirk's daily routine consists mainly of stuffing his face at the local fast food restaurant, and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. As the prospects for humanity's conquest of space look increasingly bleaker, Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future...

An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Then he gets an offer to tour in East Europe. During his travels he gets insight and finds true love.

After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house.

A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.

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.

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki

It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions.

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.

Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.

Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwater world. We explore the geysers of boiling waters and the crystal clear lakes off the coast of Iceland. We dive under the icebergs, into the tears between the continental plates and into the deep caves.

A short directed by Mika Kaurismäki.

트램 운전사 로리(카리 바나넌)와 레스토랑의 매니저인 일로나(카티 오우티넨)는 가구를 새로 사는 등 달콤한 미래를 계획하나 로리가 실직을 당한 후 일로나마저 일하던 레스토랑이 대기업의 체인으로 넘어가자 일할 곳을 잃게 된다. 적당한 직장을 구하지 못한 일로나는 결국 이전 동료들과 함께 자신의 레스토랑을 열고 고객들을 기다리지만 점심시간이 다 가도록 테이블은 비어있다. 감독의 오랜 친구이자 동료로 1995년에 세상을 뜬 마티 펠론파에게 헌정한 작품이다.

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

맥시코에서 지난한 시간을 보낸 레닌그라드 카우보이는 모세라는 이름으로 자신들에게 되돌아온 전 매니저 블라디미르(마티 펠론파)의 감언이설에 고향으로 돌아갈 것을 결심한다. 자유의 여신상의 코를 훔친 블라디미르 때문에 CIA 요원의 추격을 받으며 귀향길에 오른 이들의 여정은 역시나 고단하기만 하다. 의 후편. (2011년 아키 카우리스마키 감독전)

Goodbye Gibraltar, directed by Ulrika Bengst, is a film about reconciliation, encountering different lifestyles and dreams.

Finnish comedy.

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.

알바니아 망명자인 화가 로돌포(마티 펠론파), 프랑스 시인 마르셀, 아일랜드 출신 작곡가 슈나르드는 우연히 만나 우정을 나누게 된다. 어느 날 로돌포는 갈 곳이 없는 아름다운 미미(에블린 디디)에게 자신의 잠자리를 내주고 이를 계기로 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 그러나 진정한 예술을 추구하는 이들 보헤미안의 삶은 가난하고 애달프기만 하다. 19세기 프랑스의 앙리 미제르의 소설, 을 원작으로 한 이 영화는 카우리스마키 특유의 유머와 풍자가 녹아 있는 비극이다.

LA, 뉴욕, 파리, 로마, 헬싱키. 같은 날, 같은 시간, 각기 다른 5개 도시 속 택시 안에서 벌어지는 소동을 그린 옴니버스 영화.

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.

Directed by Matti Ijäs and written with Arto Meller, Räpsy & Dolly aka Paris Waits (1990) is a tragicomic love story of a petty criminal and a former cabaret dancer. Detective Karisto (Kari Väänänen) releases Auno "Räpsy" Pirilä (Matti Pellonpää) from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje (Pertti Sveholm) from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly (Raija Paalanen) takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.

황량하기 그지없는 핀란드 북부의 툰드라 지대에서 활약하던 세계 최악의 밴드 '레닌그라드 카우보이'(핀란드의 실제 밴드 '슬리피 슬리퍼즈' 분). 그들의 형편없는 연주를 들은 흥행업자는 미국에나 건너가 보라고 권한다. 세상에서 가장 썰렁한 국제 공항을 떠나 아메리칸 드림을 향한 장도에 오르는 레닌그라드 카우보이. 그리고 그 뒤를 레닌그라드 카우보이의 유일한 열성팬 이고르가 그림자처럼 뒤쫓는다. 뉴욕의 메디슨 스퀘어 가든이나 양키 스타디움에서 콘서트를 해보자고 제안하던 미국의 흥행업자들은 이들의 음악을 듣고 난 뒤 실망하여, 멕시코에서 열리는 사촌의 결혼식에서나 연주를 해보라며 쫓아 보낸다. 졸지에 길거리 신세가 된 레닌그라드 카우보이. 미국에 가기 전까지는 록큰롤이라는 말조차 들어보지 못했던 이들은 매니저의 지시 대로 열심히 공부한 끝에 다음번 연주에선 멋진 록큰롤 연주를 선보인다. 중고차를 한 대 구입한 후 멤피스, 뉴올리온즈, 텍사스를 거치면서 그들의 레파토리는 록큰롤, 컨트리 뮤직, 하드록 등 점차 다양해지는데... 툰드라 지역에서 활동하는 음악 밴드 ‘레닌그라드 카우보이’는 미국으로 건너가 보라는 흥행업자의 말에 미국행을 결심한다. 매니저 블라디미르는 연습도중 동사한 베이스 주자를 관에 넣고 이들과 뉴욕에 도착하지만 레닌그라드 카우보이의 형편없는 연주를 들은 프로모터는 맥시코에서 열리는 자신의 사촌 결혼식에서 연주나 하라고 말한다. 중고차를 구해 멤피스, 뉴올리언스, 갤버스톤을 거쳐 맥시코로 향하는 여행은 험난하기만 하다. 카우리스마키 감독의 작품 중 가장 많이 알려진 영화로, 헤어 왁스 한통을 다 바른 것 같은 독특한 헤어스타일과 코가 뾰족한 구두를 신은‘세계 최악의 록큰롤 밴드, 레닌그라드 카우보이’와 이들의 사악한 매니저 블라디미르의 로드 무비. 중고차 가게 점원으로 우정 출연하는 짐 자무시 감독을 놓치지 말 것! (2011년 아키 카우리스마키 감독전)

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex's money stolen and a group of gangsters are at the nape of the two. Soon it comes to shooting, and when the two men being killed, is good advice costly for the beleaguered driver. "Helsinki Napoli All Night Long" is Mika Kaurismäki's first major European production. The film features a host of famous names in the cast: The legendary film director Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One), actor Eddie Constantine (Alphaville, Europe), cult directors Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) and Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man).

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to improve their living conditions. The dialogue is entirely improvised by the actors.

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.

Film by Juha Rosma

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react

Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves.

Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves.

Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they face in their district of Helsinki, Kallio, and decide to move to another, Eira, imagining it to be an unspoiled place where people can live lives of dignity. The journey is an ironic one given that both districts are not so far apart. In this spirit, their journey across the city takes on epic proportions with each of the travellers gradually falling by the wayside due to such travails as marriage, work, and death. In its entirety the film is a wry discussion of humanity within a system that regards humans as subservient components.

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.

Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakos, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

A student film.