Jussi Rautaniemi

Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a film about brave young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is a morality play and a love story of a younger generation whose main object of love is the Finnish forest. This cinematic documentary explores environmental feelings and witnesses how the 22-year old protagonist Ida grows up to be the leader of the new Forest Movement.

The last part of Juho Kuosmanen's silent film trilogy.

An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp.

Ten-year-old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice.

Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true.

Single father is horrified to discover his daughter inexplicably disappears when she falls asleep.

Uma jovem finlandesa foge de um enigmático caso amoroso em Moscou ao embarcar em um trem para o porto de Murmansk. Ela acaba forçada a compartilhar a longa viagem e um minúsculo vagão-dormitório com um minerador russo. Esse encontro inesperado leva os ocupantes do compartimento nº 6 a enfrentar a verdade sobre seus próprios desejos. Representante da Finlândia no Oscar 2022 de Filme Internacional. Vencedor do Grande Prêmio do Júri no Festival de Cannes 2021.?

Melhores amigos, Neil e Gilbert começam seu último ano do ensino médio com grandes esperanças e aspirações. Neil sempre fantasiou em ser legal o suficiente para namorar sua paixão de longa data e Gilbert sempre sonhou em ser uma super estrela de mídia social. Depois do que foi, segundo todos os relatos, um primeiro dia de aula muito decepcionante e embaraçoso, Neil fez um desejo mágico de ser legal apenas no momento mágico em que o relógio bate 11:11. Na manhã seguinte, Neil acorda para uma realidade que vem direto dos quadrinhos de seus sonhos.

A short film about a little boy Otto, whose parents had promised him a dog for his tenth birthday - before they suddenly passed away. When Otto sees a falling star the evening before his birthday, he wishes upon it one more time, but realises then that the bright object is falling into the forest behind his grandma's house. When the hatch of the rocket opens, a little dog exits with the name Laika engraved on his collar. But knowing that his grandma is wary of dogs, the worried child stays in the forest with the dog.

A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country is a carnivalesque portrayal of the Finnish landscape of the soul and abode. The short film is based on the iconic YLE programme “People’s Radio”, and its visual material has been created by the road movie method of driving across summery Finland. The film paints a panorama of what Finland looks like today. Its narration progresses through humour into civic anarchy, ultimately also towards the longing for human connection.

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.

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.

A woman who has had enough of anonymous dick pics finds eyeglasses that give her the ability to see which men are the real dicks – but the dicks can also see her.

Markuss deve se adaptar a uma nova vida vivendo com sua avó no campo. Depois que Emīlija, a filha de um vizinho, faz alguns comentários desdenhosos sobre o pai do menino, Markuss decide ensinar-lhe uma lição cruel.

This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.

Aava tem apenas um desejo: conseguir um cachorro. Sem intenção de cumprir, seu pai faz uma promessa que ela poderá ter o cachorro desde que passeie algumas vezes por dia com um pauzinho. A menina então se empenha em cumprir o combinado. Enquanto isso, o casamento de seus pais está desmoronando.

Juice Leskinen (1950-2006), , considerado um dos pais do rock finlandês, foi um cantor, compositor, poeta e artista folk. A vida de Juice foi marcada por casos amorosos e outras coisas, como bebedeiras, letras de música e sua própria reputação. O filme conta a história de um artista que pregava o amor, um homem com bastante sensibilidade, mas que foi ferido por muitos —inclusive, por ele mesmo.

Numa noite de inverno, o pai volta para casa bêbado. Tiger está em seu quarto e mamãe está dormindo no sofá. Uma briga irrompe. Papai tem uma espingarda. Tigre e mamãe escapam da casa. Silêncio assombroso cai. Tigre deve retornar para dentro para ver o que aconteceu - e dar os primeiros passos para a independência.

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1951. Criminal investigator Anders Olsen follows the case of a bank robber who eyewitnesses say appears to have been acting under some kind of trance.

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.

On the brink of divorce a middle aged man, Olavi, retreats to his cabin by the lake. After a few days he finds that the ceiling has come down making him unable to stand up straight. His friend Tuomas arrives and insists that something has to be done whereas Olavi is content with the limited space.

A Finnish Prostitute and four Gangsters expose how the Drug Squad Police Chief commits crimes, rather than solves them. Is this corruption of an individual or a system?

Juho Kuosmanen's new version of the first Finnish film ever made.

While attending to the details of their father's estate, long-suppressed tensions between sisters Ida and Emily boil over, witnessed by Ida's young daughters.

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.

Finlândia, 1962. O boxeador Olli Mäki compete pelo título mundial de peso pena. Muito talentoso e igualmente modesto, a vida na cidade pequena de Olli se transforma quando é levado ao estrelato nacional e subitamente considerado um símbolo de seu país. Só há um problema: Olli acaba de se apaixonar.

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.

Sari works in middle management for a multinational company, and a promotion is within her grasp. She just has to finish her last presentation, break the glass ceiling and make it to the conference room in time.

Seppo, a forestry machine driver, receives an email from a mysterious woman called Miss Zahra, telling him about her money problems. Although his close friends claim the letter is a hoax, Seppo decides to follow his love abroad and save his heart for the chosen one.

Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go as planned, and the two go to Kari’s old drummer friend for help. Paranoia, jealousy and a series of increasingly absurd events ensue.

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time

At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define.

A short film directed by Aleksi Salmenperä.

A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect girl, only to notice that his dream-girl supports the wrong football team. Now he has to befriend the enemy or forget the girl he loves.

It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. Moreover there is a problem: how to cope with an emerging friendship?

Jalil is 17-year-old boy living with his Iranian family in a suburb near Helsinki. Though he has lived in Finland all his life, it seems hard for him to find acceptance among the "native" Finns. At home he faces the opposite problem. His parents demand him to respect Iranian cultural traditions. Jalil is about one day in the life of a boy standing on the edge of two cultures. On this summer day big things are bound to culminate; religion, identity, love.

Bad luck forces two men to resort to Plan B.

Tale about an inventor couple and their obscured vision to raise a child to fly.

A guard on the Soviet-Chinese border who, after surviving a deadly attack, decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.

A 6-year-old boy plays alone, waiting for his father. He talks to his father through a walkie talkie, but gets no answer. Something is not right. The world is about to end.

A 6-year-old boy plays alone, waiting for his father. He talks to his father through a walkie talkie, but gets no answer. Something is not right. The world is about to end.