Olli Varja

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.

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.

Helsinki. Os destinos de Wikhström, um cinquentão que decide mudar de vida, abandonando a esposa alcoólatra e seu emprego para abrir um restaurante, se cruza com Khaled, um jovem refugiado Sírio que tem seu visto negado ao chegar na cidade. Tocado pela história do jovem imigrante, Wikhström decide o esconder em seu restaurante.

Helsinki. Os destinos de Wikhström, um cinquentão que decide mudar de vida, abandonando a esposa alcoólatra e seu emprego para abrir um restaurante, se cruza com Khaled, um jovem refugiado Sírio que tem seu visto negado ao chegar na cidade. Tocado pela história do jovem imigrante, Wikhström decide o esconder em seu restaurante.

Marcel Marx, um escritor aposentado que se exilou voluntariamente na cidade portuária de Le Havre, onde exerce a profissão de engraxate de sapatos, abandonou toda e qualquer ambição literária e vive em um mundo reduzido, formado pelo restaurante da esquina, seu trabalho e sua esposa Arletty. Inesperadamente, o destino coloca bruscamente em seu caminho um jovem imigrante africano ao mesmo tempo em que sua esposa fica gravemente doente. Novamente Marcel deve combater o muro frio da indiferença humana para tentar ajudar o jovem imigrante.

Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).

Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds.

A short film by Aki Kaurismäki. It was shot in 2001 as a test before filming The Man Without a Past, featuring much of the same cast. Markku Peltola plays a man who leaves his company and boards a train to Moscow with the woman he is going to marry.

A short film by Aki Kaurismäki. It was shot in 2001 as a test before filming The Man Without a Past, featuring much of the same cast. Markku Peltola plays a man who leaves his company and boards a train to Moscow with the woman he is going to marry.

A short film by Aki Kaurismäki. It was shot in 2001 as a test before filming The Man Without a Past, featuring much of the same cast. Markku Peltola plays a man who leaves his company and boards a train to Moscow with the woman he is going to marry.

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

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.

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.

Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.

Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.

A 57 minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman".

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

Sequel to Kuutamosonaatti (1988).

Sequel to Kuutamosonaatti (1988).

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

Uma jovem supervisora de embalagens de fósforo tem sua monótona vida modificada por um homem bem vestido que a convida para dançar e ir ao seu apartamento.

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

Taisto Kasurinen trabalha numa mina de carvão que passa por graves problemas. Seu pai comete suicídio e ele acaba sendo preso por um crime que não cometeu. Na cadeia, ele começa a sonhar em começar uma nova vida em outro país e planeja escapar da prisão.

Taisto Kasurinen trabalha numa mina de carvão que passa por graves problemas. Seu pai comete suicídio e ele acaba sendo preso por um crime que não cometeu. Na cadeia, ele começa a sonhar em começar uma nova vida em outro país e planeja escapar da prisão.

A Finnish documentary about the feelings of a rock generation in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's regime: the film follows underground bands' rise to publicity, the country's first "official" rock festival called the Moscow Rock Panorama-87 and the rocket-like ascent of Uralian Nautilus Pompilius into the starry sky of Soviet rock. Also appearing: "Аквариум", "Авиа", "Телевизор", "Браво", "Ва Банкъ", "Бригада С", "Новая Коллекция", "Мистер Твистер", "Круиз", "Нюанс", "Альянс", Uriah Heep.

On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they face in their district of Helsinki, Kallio, and decide to move to another, Eira, imagining it to be an unspoiled place where people can live lives of dignity. The journey is an ironic one given that both districts are not so far apart. In this spirit, their journey across the city takes on epic proportions with each of the travellers gradually falling by the wayside due to such travails as marriage, work, and death. In its entirety the film is a wry discussion of humanity within a system that regards humans as subservient components.

Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.

A documentary film about a tour of three Finnish rock bands around Saimaa lake system in a steam boat in 1981. The bands (Juice Leskinen Slam, Eppu Normaali and Hassisen Kone) are shown playing songs in their gigs and, in between, the members give intimate interviews or just act plain silly and have a good time.

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.