Alma Pöysti

For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the upheaval of the First World War and all too aware of the threat posed both outside and within its borders, the newly installed government initiated harsh and draconian policies for its younger generation. All children and youths were drilled in the importance of discipline, rectitude and nationalism. With no exceptions.

Ambientado na atual Helsinki, Folhas de Outono conta a história de Ansa e Holappa, duas almas solitárias cujo encontro casual em um bar de karaokê enfrenta vários obstáculos. De contatos perdidos a endereços errados, alcoolismo e um charmoso cachorro de rua, o caminho da dupla para a felicidade é tão agridoce quanto delicioso.

Desesperado para rever a filha, um homem armado invade um centro médico e sequestra a ex-mulher que trabalha lá.

Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his ex-wife and son, and to make amends for his past mistakes. But money is tight, and eventually Ivan will resort to extreme measures.

Juulia learns that her husband Matias is having an affair with Enni, and decides that her marriage should henceforth be polyamorous, without secrets.

Leena prepares a meal for two and leaves her cottage to pick up her husband Boris from the hospital. The nurse warns them of his condition, but they’ve already decided to spend the night together. In the cottage, they have dinner and try their best to enjoy themselves. As the night turns to early morning, we see a camera stand in the bedroom pointing towards them.

A world-weary reality TV host (Alma Pöysti) is given one last chance by her producer. Accompanied by a cynical filming crew, she goes to find out what happened to a celebrity who wet himself in a dance show on live television.

A beautiful summer day in Moomin Valley. Suddenly, a wasp stings Moomintroll, who falls ill and has to stay in bed. To cheer him up, Moominpappa recounts his youthful adventures; his misunderstood childhood, escape from an orphanage and his historic meeting with the inventor Hodgkins.

Anna sees Jasmine, her former school bully, after years when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a civilized manner, but there’s something bubbling beneath the surface. Spiral is about a ballet class that gets out of hand.

The Finnish designer Henrik Wahlforss had a flourishing career in industrial design and innovation in the 1970s. In 1980, he decided, however, to leave his career to write a book. Not any book; he wanted to write his prediction about the future, which became for him a life-long project. Combining archive material, interviews, and dramatizations, the film Tidresenären brings the viewer closer to Wahlforss’s fascinating life and predictions.

Em Helsinque, em 1945, o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial traz um novo sentido de liberdade artística e social para a escritora e pintora finlandesa Tove Jansson. O filme conta a história da artista, mostrando seus relacionamentos pessoais e a criação das mundialmente famosas histórias dos Moomim.

The dissolution of a family in 10 minutes.

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.

Os Moomins, pegos por uma tempestade, encalham na Côte d'Azur. Depois de um mal entendido, a melhor suíte do Grande Hotel é cedida a eles. Mas logo, Mamma Moomin se enche daquela vida de luxo que não tem nada a ver com ela e deixa o hotel. A unidade da família fica ameaçada...

Malla and her husband are drifting apart. When Malla gets a new daycare child, she understands how lonely she is.

Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.

The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.