Rauno Ronkainen

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.

Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen and her 159 wonderful paintings - and wants to organize a big private exhibit. However, Helen's turning point comes only when she is introduced to Einar Reuter. Young Einar is a forester, art enthusiast, and a passionate admirer of Helene's work. He becomes Helen's trusted and lover.

Ao retornar à Finlândia após de deixar os EUA durante a Grande Depressão, um homem enfrenta uma crescente inquietação política no país nórdico. Numa noite de verão de 1930, bandidos nacionalistas o raptam. Ele é espancado e forçado a andar até a União Soviética, onde a crueldade parece não ter fim. Seu único desejo é voltar a ver a família, mesmo que esse sonho seja quase impossível. Baseado em uma história real.

A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.

In 1980's Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel - and becomes a sensation. The intensity of their relationship has a different affect on Juhana, who starts to lose his grip on writing and, finally, life. At the height of the love affair Inka starts to suspect that their mad love might actually be real madness.

Durante a Guerra da Lapônia, conflito entre a Alemanha e a Finlândia no rescaldo da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a parteira Helena se apaixona por Johannes, um oficial do serviço secreto alemão. Baseado no romance de Katja Kettu.

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.

Uma jovem em fuga é abrigada por uma velha senhora em sua casa. Unidas pelo puro acaso as duas descobrirão que tem muito mais em comum do que poderiam imaginar, tanto por seus laços de sangue como pelo passado de abusos que querem esquecer.

Tina and Cilla will soon turn 15 years old and is in the middle of teens search for an adult identity. They are identical twins but completely different. Tina cares mostly about makeup and falls in love with a new guy every week. Cilla is perceived as odd because she does not care at all about superficialities. She is a director of her own theater play to get money for starving children in third world countries. A young local rock musicians, Ailu, is making the music to her show. On her mother's birthday, Cilla die in an accident. Now it's as if half of her is lost.

Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.

In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.

É verão na Finlândia e os casais se divertem em jantares ao ar livre ou em banhos de lago noturnos. Mas a consultora de negócios Tuula e o terapeuta familiar Juhani estão em pé de guerra. Por mais que tenham concordado em se divorciar de forma civilizada, antes de venderem a casa, os dois fazem de tudo para provocar ciúmes um no outro. Assim, Tuula convida um charmoso piloto de avião para um jantar na casa deles, e Juhani, por sua vez, se vinga contratando uma prostituta para se passar por sua amante. Sentimentos antigos afloram e os dois embarcam numa disputa sem fim.

There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A lieutenant is enforced into a homosexual relationship with his commanding officer to save the Red female with whom he is infatuated.

The year is 1984. It's summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn't as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she discovers her dawning sexuality, and experience her first crush.

Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.

A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.

The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.