Marja Packalén

When the anarchistic princess of her own life, Princess Itty Bitty is told that her little brother, who still lives in her mother's womb, is about to move into her room, she's had enough. Drawing on the wisdom of her quirky neighbor, Auntie Jenssen, Itty Bitty devises a plan and conjures the bossy grown-ups to Hilldiggle with the help of her magical dog, Sausage.

No Love Lost shot to global fame like a shooting star and made millionaires out of its members. Guitarist Tony drank his millions and hasn't been able to play a chord in years. The guitars have been pawned and no new songs are being written. A message about singer-songwriter Katarina reaches Tony. The singer, who has been sober for a long time, has relapsed into drugs with fatal consequences. Katarina's teenage daughter Ellie, who has been placed in a family home, contacts Tony to find out about her family background. In the process, she reveals a secret to Tony that could enable No Love Lost to make a comeback and save Tony's finances. Tony decides to go to the funeral and get to know his daughter enough to get a DNA sample from her to confirm paternity - and gain access to Katarina's inheritance.

Seija Kuula is a superstar singer and an ageless goddess with a career spanning decades and decades. Problems start to arise when Seija falls in love with a younger guy and everybody around her seem to suffer from a bad case of baby fever. Seija orchestrates a masterplan to make everyone happy only to realize that one can not play with love. 70 Is Just a Number is a warm and humorous coming-of-age story – at 70.

This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden.

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.

Career woman finds out that her boyfriend is living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl who is also on a run from her criminal step-father. Together they're trying to make it to her grandmothers house.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?

핀란드 헬싱키. 고도로 번영한 도시에서 일개 경비원으로 살아가는 코이스티넨. 마치 채플린 영화 속 방랑자 같은 모습의 그는 자신이 소외된 부유한 세상 속으로 들어갈 기회를 엿보고 있는 고독한 남자다. 그러나 동료들과 익명의 조직은 그의 소박한 희망을 차례로 망가뜨리기 시작한다. 그들은 코이스티넨의 직분을 이용해 범죄를 계획하면서 그가 오랫동안 사랑을 갈망해 왔다는 사실을 알아채고는 팜므파탈의 여성을 접근시킨다. 이 사건은 결국 코이스티넨을 나락으로 떨어뜨리고 그는 직장, 자유, 꿈 모든 것을 잃게 되는데.... 와 에 이은 핀란드 3부작의 마지막 편으로, 한 외로운 남자의 이야기가 아키 카우리스마키 특유의 유머감각과 내러티브를 통해 펼쳐진다. 외로움에서 벗어나고 싶은 남자 코이스티넨은 한 여자와 그녀의 친구들을 관찰하기 위해 야간 경비원과 직업을 바꾼다. 그녀를 멀리 떠나보내고 싶지 않은 마음에, 그는 침묵을 고수하며 자신의 자유마저 포기한다. 감정의 단절을 응시하는 아키 카우리스마키의 미니멀리즘적 영화.

Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.

Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.

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?

주인공 카스리넨은 광부다. 일하던 탄광이 폐광이 되며 도산을 하고 사장은 유일하게 남은 것은 권총과 승용차 한대. 차 키를 카스리넨에게 주고 자신은 권콩으로 자살을 한다. 실업자가 되어 달랑 차 한 대만 끌고 도시로 온 그는 주차 단속을 하던 필라야와 너무 쉽게 잠을 자고 곧 동거를 시작하는데 그들의 필요 충분 조건은 사랑뿐 이었을 뿐이다. 그녀에겐 딸린 아들도 있다. 가진 것 없고 사랑만 있는 이들 앞엔 역경만 닥쳐오고 결국 갖은 우여곡절 끝에 그들은 현실을 도피해 밀항선을 타고 꿈의 땅 아리엘로 떠난다.

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.

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.

Finnish soft erotic movie

A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.

Ordinary winter holiday turns into an adventure when trash starts to rain from the sky and all the holes in the city disappear. Snot and Splash solve the mystery, and at the same time save the world from being sucked into a black hole.