Veikko Honkanen

Na véspera de Natal, o mundo de uma jovem rena parece se despedaçar depois que sua mãe se casa novamente e ela é culpada quando seu novo irmão é sequestrado

Niko, uma pequena rena, sonha em seguir os passos de seu pai, um membro da brigada voadora do Papai Noel. Para isso, ele treina todos os dias no vale calmo das renas, incentivado por sua mãe e seu melhor amigo, o esquilo voador Julius. Apesar de nunca ter visto seu pai, suas coreografias aéreas terminam sempre sem graça, virando piada para outras pequenas renas. Culpado de ter atraído uma matilha de lobos famintos para o grupo de renas, ele deixa a manada para procurar seu pai ao país remoto e misterioso do Papai Noel.

A few days before Christmas Eve the last sack of letters arrives to Santa. At the bottom is a letter that is a bit older than the others, it's a drawing. While the curious Santa tries to figure out what the drawing looks like, strange things begin to happen.

A few days before Christmas Eve the last sack of letters arrives to Santa. At the bottom is a letter that is a bit older than the others, it's a drawing. While the curious Santa tries to figure out what the drawing looks like, strange things begin to happen.

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

A day in the life of Valto Hakamaa.

TV movie from 1987.

TV movie from 1987. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.