Sanna Salmenkallio

Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a film about brave young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is a morality play and a love story of a younger generation whose main object of love is the Finnish forest. This cinematic documentary explores environmental feelings and witnesses how the 22-year old protagonist Ida grows up to be the leader of the new Forest Movement.

People living in times of global crises, trying to envision how the future is 50 years from now.

A film about Maija Isola, the designer of Finland’s most beloved fabrics. Her bold designs, which include classics like Unikko, Kivet, Kaivo and Melooni, were essential in creating Marimekko’s lifestyle universe. The film shows the secrets to the success of Maija Isola’s fabrics, the values at the heart of Isola’s globetrotter lifestyle, and the legacy she left us. The film is narrated by Maija Isola, as well as her daughter Kristina Isola. It takes us close to Maija as a person, artist, thinker and visionary through her letters. We also hear Armi Ratia’s thoughts on Isola both as an employee and as a friend.

는 현대 건축의 세계적인 거장 알바 알토의 삶과 작품을 돌아보는 매력적인 다큐멘터리 작품이다. 알바와 그의 아내이자 건축가였던 아이노 알토의 로맨스를 최초로 담은 영화이기도 하다. 영화는 이 부부의 창작 과정부터 그들이 세계 곳곳에 세운 주요 건물들까지 순회하는 여정을 펴낸다. 관객은 이 작품을 통해 그들의 핀란드 건축물들, 러시아의 도서관, MIT의 학생 기숙사, 그리고 파리 근방의 미술 수집가의 주택, 베니스의 파빌리온을 비롯한 특별한 곳들을 방문하게 될 것이다.

This film tells the story of David Rothenberg’s efforts to gather together an international band of musicians to cross the species line and make music live with nightingales. Because of its spacious parks and the large number of enthusiastically singing birds, Berlin is the best city to make music with nightingales. Almost everything one plays to a nightingale will encourage him to sing more. These encounters becomes a direct window into the unknown, a touch of communication with a being with whom we cannot speak. The play of pure tones jarring against click and buzz, it all becomes not a code but a groove, an amphitheater of rhythms in which we strive to find a place.

유명 바이올린 연주자 카린은 자동차 사고로 더 이상 손가락을 현란하게 쓰지 못하게 되어 화려한 커리어를 중단하고, 스무 살이나 어린 학생들을 가르치다 학생 중 한 명인 안티와 사랑에 빠진다. 둘은 음악에 대해 열정적이며 커리어에 대해 지나치게 야심적이라 쉽게 어울리진 않는다.

유명 바이올린 연주자 카린은 자동차 사고로 더 이상 손가락을 현란하게 쓰지 못하게 되어 화려한 커리어를 중단하고, 스무 살이나 어린 학생들을 가르치다 학생 중 한 명인 안티와 사랑에 빠진다. 둘은 음악에 대해 열정적이며 커리어에 대해 지나치게 야심적이라 쉽게 어울리진 않는다.

The film in its entirety is set in the forest: the protagonists sleep under spruce trees, make art, hunt with their dogs, hold techno raves in the summer night and earn their living as forest owners. As the film progresses, one gains a more versatile view of the forest as a biological organism, a spiritual retreat for humans, a source of inspiration and as a complete living environment supporting us all.

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.

An exploration between faith and football, following three fans of the legendary Club Atlético "Boca" Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hernán is an intellectual intoxicated by a love for Boca he cannot shake off, torn between reason and his passion for Boca. Pablo is a working class man that believes that the former Boca player Diego Maradona is a God. La Tía (The Auntie) is an old eccentric, she considers Boca players her sons. Football is God is a film about football, faith, passion and the need for being part of something bigger than one self.

Police trainee Riikka finds there is something not even a bullet proof vest can protect her from - her own emotions.

A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.