Timo Hietala

Filmes

Bitter Love
Original Music Composer
A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a couple of doubtful, young, charismatic lovers meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise. They have one thing in common – similar emotional problems of suffering and doubts. However, they’ve come to the right place. River cruises in Russia are colloquially called “floating matchmaking agencies”. What does fate have in store for them?
Rir ou Morrer
Original Music Composer
Finlândia, 1918. Um grupo de atores prisioneiros sentenciados à morte se empenha para montar uma peça de teatro humorística. A intenção é entreter o comandante da tropa alemã, que visita a cadeia e tem fama de nunca rir. Se conseguirem fazê-lo rir, escaparão da execução. O grupo é liderado por Toivo Parikka, considerado o homem mais engraçado do país. Com humor negro e situações grotescas, o filme mostra a humanidade sob uma luz cômica. Baseado em uma história real.
Winning Ticket
Music
Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all?
Duas Noites
Original Music Composer
Caroline, uma arquiteta francesa, está em Vilnius, capital da Lituânia, em uma viagem de negócios, e precisa passar uma noite a mais na cidade para uma reunião de trabalho. No bar de seu hotel, conhece Jaakko, um DJ finlandês que está em Vilnius para se apresentar. Caroline não fala inglês, o rapaz não fala francês. Embora os dois tenham dificuldade para comunicar-se, aproveitam a companhia um do outro e terminam a tumultuada noite juntos no quarto de Jaakko.
Boy Upside Down
Music
A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
Jill and Joy
Ossi
When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the summer holiday, they decide to buy a house from the mysterious Mrs. Rosebud. It’s a real dream house: measured and equipped exactly for two little seven-year-old girls’ requirements. Based on a beloved children’s book, Jill and Joy is a story of a dream summer without parents or boundaries. Anything can and will happen as reality and fantasy magically intertwine.
Com Todo Amor
Music
Vaarala, um fotógrafo romântico reservado, tem uma visão artística estranha da solidão: ele tira fotos em série de um banco de parque vazio em espaços remotos da natureza. Quando ele conhece e se apaixona pela espirituosa e indisciplinada Ansa, seu 'banco' é repentinamente preenchido. Mas, para estar com ela, ele não só precisa superar suas próprias fragilidades, mas também o perigo iminente do ex-presidiário volátil de Ansa e, em seguida, da própria Ansa, uma mulher propensa à impulsividade e impetuosidade.
Summer Window
Original Music Composer
Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to find that she has been unexplainable thrown back into her past - to the time before she met her new love. Is what seems at first glance a cruel setback in reality actually a second chance?
Falling Angels
Original Music Composer
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.
1944 The Final Defence
Music
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
NDA - Salassapitosopimus
Music
26-year old Satu is a high profile press officer at a leading mobile phone giant. When her former co-worker at the daily press disappears mysteriously, she fears a connection between the launch of a new mobile and a secret report how already shipped phones cause brain cancer...