Pekka Uotila

For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the upheaval of the First World War and all too aware of the threat posed both outside and within its borders, the newly installed government initiated harsh and draconian policies for its younger generation. All children and youths were drilled in the importance of discipline, rectitude and nationalism. With no exceptions.

The Echoes of the Universe – The Music of Kaija Saariaho follows the completion and performances of Saariaho’s works in different parts of the world, but also highlights the mutual cooperation of her family.

A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of 1935. On his way, in Germany, he meets Heinrich Himmler, who is attracted by a traditional Finnish instrument, kantele. Himmler employs Yrjö as researcher to the Ahnenerbe institute to find the Aryan roots from the runic singing culture of Finnish Carelia.

Director Sonja Lindén's personal and sensitive quest to the core of the modern information society where technology and human beings get more and more entwined. This documentary explores our society on the verge of turning ubiquitous - a wireless society, where the laws of time, space and distance are revolutionizing the concept of liaison. Do the consequences of the technological revolution increase our freedom, or do they limit us? Is it possible to find a balance between one's natural rhythm and the society that spins at an ever increasing and demanding speed? Are we chasing echoes of our lost inner wholeness in our everyday lives, which are becoming busier and more fragmented than ever before?

During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most of the archives of the camps were destroyed and the majority of the war crimes were never revealed.

A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took her to Palna, an orphanage, where she lived for a year. When Devi learned to talk she often wanted to talk about Amma, her first mother. In the film, the 6-year-old Devi journeys to her own past, as her family adopts another daughter from Palna, a baby sister for Devi.

25-year-old Karri is stuck with his life: days at a job as a guard at a shopping mall, nights out with his friends. Then Karri meets Caasha, a Somali girl about his age.

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.

A story of how the world changes when dissatisfaction appears.

Pete loses his consciousness while playing in a pop band. The diagnosis is harsh and the doctor cannot say for sure whether Pete will celebrate his 18th birthday. One night, encouraged by the vodka on Jusa's 18th birthday, Pete confesses his love to Kata, his dream girl. Together with Jusa, they go to Lapland where Kata has her summer job. In Jusa's wild company, Pete experiences something which he never felt before as they decide to take a trip to Mombasa via Lapland.

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.

Grandmother returns from the grave to haunt her family.

The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.

무능력하고 무표정한 얼굴의 엄마와 계부의 생활비를 위해 매일같이 성냥공장에서 기계처럼 일하고 퇴근하면 집안 일을 해야하는 단조롭고 우울한 일상의 아리스.그녀에겐 생일선물마저도 매년 똑같은 제목의 낡은 책 한권이 전부이다.그런 그녀에게도 꿈이 있다, 성냥불꽃처럼 환히 빛났다가 금새 사라져벌리 것 같은.그녀는 저녁이면 가끔 댄스 클럽에 나간다. 온기가 느껴지는 누군가를 만나기 위해. 하지만 그녀는 언제나 붙박이 의자 신세다. 우울한 얼굴과 후줄근한 옷차람의 그녀에게 누구도 먼저 손내밀지 않는다. 그러던 어느 날 화사한 빨간색 원피스를 사 입고 들른 그곳에는 그녀가 가슴에 기대고픈 누군가가 기다리고 있는데...행복한 하룻밤의 기대는 온갓 유희로 끝나고, 그녀에게는 아기가 찾아온다. 그러나 예쁜 옷을 입혀줄 수 있을 딸이길 행복하게 소원하는 그녀는 그와 가족들로부터 버림만 받게된다. 세상은 성냥공장처럼 냉혹하고 비인간적이다. 이제 한 개피 성냥처럼 자신을 모두 태울 수 있었던 그녀의 인간다움, 자유를 향한 욕망의 선택은?

제2차 세계대전, 소련의 침공을 당한 핀란드. 마르테는 가족들의 만류를 뿌리치고 형제들과 전쟁에 참전한다. 하지만 사랑하는 사람들이 하나둘 전사하고 마르테의 목숨마저 점점 위험해지는데…

The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.