Sampo Sarkola

Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.

Patrolman Loyan tries to find his place in the new police department while keeping his friend Warsame, newly released from prison, on the right track. Loyan's ambition is to get into detective training, but his supervisor Jokisalo thinks he'd be better off patrolling the familiar neighbourhoods with his partner Johanna. The patrol gets down to business when they start investigating what looks like a suicide. Antero Päiviö, a professional criminal and racial bigot involved in drug trafficking, has jumped from his balcony. The man who was first pronounced dead suddenly wakes up and is taken to hospital. Loyan finds it hard to believe the man's story and decides to find out the truth at any cost. As the plot unravels, it's hard to know who to trust anymore, when Warsame seems to be up to something behind Loyan's back.

In his youth, the author Frej has already found a deep connection and passion with an upper-class girl, Stella Rabell, that has lasted between them through the decades. When Stella's older brother Alex falls victim to a stabbing attack, Frej begins to reminisce about the events of decades past. Frej's memories from the bright 1970s to the present day are filled with love, jealousy, betrayal, life and death.

Um mural de sangue, uma enquete mortal nas redes sociais e um serial killer sinistro forçam o detetive Kari Sorjonen a enfrentar o caso mais difícil de sua carreira.

10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well.

A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.

A man regains consciousness as he is being buried alive. A pure nightmare fuel for the opening short-movie.

Divorced, middle-aged Matti picks up Maša near the Finnish-Russian border. Maša was waiting for a different man called Jukka, but agrees to go with Matti when he claims he is a friend of Jukka's.

Goliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 16-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is at change.

Dance On Thin Ice tells the story of Felix, a twelve-year-old boy who is left to spend Christmas alone while his parents travel to India. A reluctant Felix ends up as an ice cream seller at a deserted swimming stadium, where the surface of the pool has frozen solid. But the swimming stadium is not completely deserted after all. Felix meets a dark-haired refugee girl called Fakira, whose parents were killed in a bombing in Syria.A dreamlike story where two young strangers to each other, a boy and a refugee girl, meet under unusual circumstances. Together, they make the impossible possible.Dance On Thin Ice is a story about alienation and the latent power of being different. The main characters of the film are misfits. In their own way, there is something “wrong” with them, but at the same time, something unique. Together, they right a wrong. The film shows the world through the eyes of a child, on a child’s terms. The themes of the film are tolerance and overcoming oneself.

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.

The movie version of the 2016 adventure series Heroes of the Baltic Sea.

Durante o século 17, a rainha Cristina está determinada a modernizar a Suécia. Criada como um príncipe sob rigorosa educação luterana, a rainha enfrenta grande resistência tanto em sua missão modernizadora como em acabar com a sangrenta Guerra dos Trinta Anos, entre protestantes e católicos. Em meio a isso, ela se esforça para entender o amor que sente por sua dama de companhia, a condessa Ebba Sparre. Dividida entre conflitos de aspirações políticas e pessoais, Cristina opta por tomar uma das decisões mais controversas da história.

"Sociedade Secreta de Souptown" é um filme de aventuras infantis que se passa em Souptown, um bairro na cidade de veraneio de Tartu. Quatro crianças - Mari, Sadu, Olav e Anton - formam uma sociedade secreta para brincar jogos de "esconde-esconde" inventados pelo avô de Mari, um professor da universidade. Quando a cidade é atacada por um veneno misterioso que transforma adultos em crianças nossa gangue embarca em uma busca pelo antídoto. Seu caminho é pavimentado com desafios maiores do que qualquer outro que tinham visto até agora. É uma aventura que você não pode sequer imaginar. Será que as crianças vão encontrar o antídoto a tempo de salvar seus entes queridos?

25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!

Karin has no idea what she wants from life but thinks she finds the answer at her father-in-law's funeral.

Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.

Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become evil and cruel.

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.

A story about an evening in a restaurant. Six tables, seven stories, a tragicomedy about the fantasies and realities of love.

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.

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.

Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...

"Encounter". Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.

Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.

The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.

Finland in the 50s saw a time where boats from all over the world docked in the harbor city of Kotka. In addition to transporting goods, the sailors brought with them another import: jazz, swing and blues. A tale of music-loving, fearless and passionate young men decide to open Fennia, a jazz bar. Soon Fennia achieves legendary status and the men; the Harbour Brothers, play their music and hold court like emperors.

A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.

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.