Kari Hietalahti

The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.

Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.

Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his tail, paranoia and self-loathing over old wrongs eventually lead to a traffic accident. Jarna can no longer escape, his pace slows and he is on the verge of giving up. The moment has come when a near-lifetime of running must come to an end.

To save the world, Super Furball has to save the bees. In order to do that, the heroic guinea pig has to save the biggest bully in school.

A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions.

A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.

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

Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in order to dispel any doubts. The soirée is a success until Pekka’s god-daughter gets run over by a car. The reckless driver becomes a mutual enemy for the family. The driver tries to atone for his actions, but the situation spirals out of control and Pekka attacks the man. Pekka realizes things have gone too far and decides to tell his family the truth. It does not hurt as much as Pekka thought, bringing the pieces of a once broken family back together.

One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks.

호기심 가득한 소녀 '에밀리아'는 엄마에게 선물받은 애완동물 '햄찌'로 인해 특별한 초능력을 얻게 된다. 하루 아침에 '슈퍼 햄찌 히어로'가 된 에밀리아. 그녀는 아주 특별하고 비밀스러운 미션을 받게 되는데... 과연 에밀리아는 무사히 미션을 성공하고 진정한 히어로로 거듭날 수 있을까!? 슈퍼 햄찌 히어로의 초특급 비밀 프로젝트가 시작된다!

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.

2차 대전 속 활약으로 조국 핀란드의 훈장까지 받았지만 인권을 존중 받지 못하는 사회에서 전쟁터만큼이나 피폐한 삶을 살고 있는 토우코 라크소넨. 그는 ‘톰 오브 핀란드’라는 필명으로 금지 된 욕망을 담은 일러스트를 그리며 조금씩 세상을 뒤흔들기 시작한다. 그러다 우연히 미국에까지 그의 그림이 알려지면서 뜻하지 않았던 해방구가 펼쳐지는데…

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.

10살 토니와 여자친구 수이는 학교 친구들과 간 놀이동산에서 ‘헤비메탈 사우르스’를 발견한다. 헤비메탈 사우르스는 공룡같이 생긴 생명체로 먹는 것과 하드록 밖에 알지 못한다. 온순하고 재미있을 뿐만 아니라 어떻게 무대를 휘어잡아야 하는지도 알고 있는 헤비메탈사우르스이지만, 돈을 벌 목적으로 그들을 이용하려 드는 기업가 맥심은 그들을 계속 가두어 놓는다. 수이와 토니는 이 공룡 친구들을 구하기 위해서 함께 싸워야만 한다! [제 11회 부산국제어린이청소년영화제]

It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.

A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.

Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

하늘을 나는 사슴형제의 크리스마스 대모험! 전세계 어린이들이 손꼽아 기다리는 크리스마스 멈춰버린 산타마을 선물 공장을 지켜라! 산타비행단이 되고 싶은 슈퍼루키 ‘니코’와 형밖에 모르는 귀요미 동생 ‘조니’의 대설원 어드벤쳐!

하늘을 나는 사슴형제의 크리스마스 대모험! 전세계 어린이들이 손꼽아 기다리는 크리스마스 멈춰버린 산타마을 선물 공장을 지켜라! 산타비행단이 되고 싶은 슈퍼루키 ‘니코’와 형밖에 모르는 귀요미 동생 ‘조니’의 대설원 어드벤쳐!

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.

Life for Sale is the story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.

Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concerns by working hard. On a new case, she is brought back to the house near the lake where she was raised to help a group of environmentalists to protect its natural beauty against the industrial project of a power company. But by doing so she has to fight the greed of the locals, and their trust in an evil spirit that is believed to be attached to the lake.

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

“나도 멋지게 하늘을 날고 싶어!" 내 이름은 ‘니코’! 내 꿈은 자유롭게 하늘을 나는 거야. 근데 우리 마을 사슴들은 나를 비웃으며 말하길, 내가 날지 못 할거래. 하지만 난 단 한번도 만나보지 못한 우리 아빠가 나의 꿈인 ‘산타 비행단’이란 얘길 듣고 나니 더욱 자신감이 생겼어. 난 꼭 하늘을 날고 말테야! 그러던 어느 날, 아무도 몰래 하늘을 날으는 연습을 하다가 음흉한 늑대들에게 들켜 버린거야. 그래서 우리 마을은 아수라장이 되고 말았어~ 으흑... 그리고 난 나의 베스트 프렌드이자 잔소리꾼 날다람쥐 ‘줄리어스’와 함께 ‘산타 비행단’을 찾아 떠나기로 결심했어. 산타마을로 가는 길에 새 친구들도 만나고, 나를 뒤쫓던 늑대를 피해 숨기도 하고... 떠돌이 족제비 여가수 ‘윌마’의 합류로 탄생한 나의 새로운 패밀리와 시작된 흥미진진한 모험! 내 꿈을 찾아 함께 산타마을로 떠나자구~~ “어때~ 완전 기대 되지?!"

Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.

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.

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.

The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.

Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in which two guys argue about McDonald's hamburgers. Still, VARES - PRIVATE EYE, by director Aleksi Mäkelä, manages to be kind of fun even not especially original. The script has more characters than the screenwriter can handle, leaving the audience frequently confused about who is doing what and why. The two best scenes are one about a wacky wedding and another about a guy who answers a cell phone call while he is busy enjoying the pleasures of a sex parlor.

Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!

Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.

A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.

The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. The cast is an impressive one: the brothers are portrayed by Peter Franzen, Lauri Nurkse, Niko Saarela and Jasper Pääkkönen while their really evil father is played by Vesa-Matti Loiri, one of the grand old men of Finnish cinema.

Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys.

A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.

Woman unexpectedly meets Satan in her attic.

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.

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.

The Night Train (Yöjuna) is a 1996 Finnish thriller movie directed by Arto Lehkamo.

Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next door.

This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.

Story of Juhani Aataminpoika (1826-1854), first known serial killer in Finnish history.