Kari Kankaanpää

Filmes

Kaukainen planeetta
Production Design
The last part of Juho Kuosmanen's silent film trilogy.
The Worst Idea Ever
Production Design
The lifelong friendship between the two game developers begins to fray as one longs for nostalgia of her youth, and the other for marriage and a life abroad. When old grudges surface at a LARP-themed bachelorette party, it's time to find out who's living whose dream.
Erik Stoneheart
Art Direction
Erik is convinced he has a stone for a heart. That’s why he doesn’t mind that his parents have no time for him, or that he is bullied at school, or that he has no real friends. When his family moves to a villa they inherited, he is confronted by Maria whom Erik's parents want to kick out along with her father. Maria refuses to move and promises to make Erik's life a living hell. As a last attempt to defeat Erik, Maria goes to look for her mother who disappeared two years ago. Together they end up on a fantastical journey to the In-Between-World and Erik learns how hard it really is to wear a heart of stone.
Erik Stoneheart
Production Design
Erik is convinced he has a stone for a heart. That’s why he doesn’t mind that his parents have no time for him, or that he is bullied at school, or that he has no real friends. When his family moves to a villa they inherited, he is confronted by Maria whom Erik's parents want to kick out along with her father. Maria refuses to move and promises to make Erik's life a living hell. As a last attempt to defeat Erik, Maria goes to look for her mother who disappeared two years ago. Together they end up on a fantastical journey to the In-Between-World and Erik learns how hard it really is to wear a heart of stone.
Kikka!
Production Design
Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.
Vagão nº 6
Production Design
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.?
Any Day Now
Production Design
Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. Their routines are fractured by a negative decision on their application for asylum by the Finnish Immigration Service. But life must go on and the 13-year-old Ramin is about to enter an entirely new school, junior high. The Mehdipours use their last chance to appeal but continue their everyday lives, fuelled by their exceptionally positive outlook and attitude.
Kristal
Production Design
The film is about a show dancer, Kristal, 40+ years, blond hair woman, who with a Lada car goes around small pubs and entertains people. First she seems a bit ridiculous, self-sufficient and naive, a potential victim, an circus animal, but she comes out as something else. Kristal is a weird saint, who takes to bear all the hate, despair, lust and confusion around her and through that gives people a momentary relief.
Hardballer
Production Design
HARDBALLER is an action comedy of a man, who can’t admit his doubts and fears about his impending marriage, until he gets thrown into a situation of life and death during his bachelor party gone horribly wrong.
Aurora
Production Design
One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland, a commitment-phobic party animal, Aurora, meets Iranian Darian. Darian suddenly asks her to marry him. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. Aurora turns him down, as she is busy working as a nail technician and plans to move to Norway, away from her shit life. However, after meeting his sweet daughter, Aurora agrees to help him. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close. When the perfect wife candidate comes along, Darian and Aurora are faced with a difficult choice: pretend to be happy or to finally stop running.
A Maldição das Formigas Gigantes
Production Design
Um bando de formigas gigantes assassinas surgem das profundezas das dunas do deserto e ameaçam acabar com toda a humanidade. Um tributo nostálgico aos filmes do gênero nos anos 50, é também inspirado em um jogo cult de videogame dos anos 80.
Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara
Production Design
As melhores amigas Satu e Heide acreditam que o amor verdadeiro não está à venda e vivem sabotando casamentos elegantes. Mas quando Heide se apaixona pelo astro do hóquei no gelo Lauri Mäntyvaara, Satu fica sozinha com seus planos. Ela é obrigada a decidir o que realmente quer.
Tatu e Patu
Production Design
A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
O Dia Mais Feliz da Vida de Olli Mäki
Production Design
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.
A Parteira
Production Design
Durante a Guerra da Lapônia, conflito entre a Alemanha e a Finlândia no rescaldo da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a parteira Helena se apaixona por Johannes, um oficial do serviço secreto alemão. Baseado no romance de Katja Kettu.
Com Amor Milla
Production Design
Aimo and Milla are living together at Milla's alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place. They save money to move out of the house. Due to his lack of self confidence, Aimo wastes their savings to turbo-boost his muscles. As conventional body building is not quite satisfactory, Aimo tunes himself up into a robot. Milla doesn't like the new Aimo-Robot and leaves him. Aimo´s heartache leads him to extreme measures as he also changes his heart into a metal one, one that doesn't hurt. Milla decides to steal Aimo heart: after all, a woman needs to have a man´s heart. Lovemilla is an anarchistic comedy trip, a comedy about love, a story about love, robots and bodybuilding.
Mistaken
Production Design
Nick Mayers, a music icon, comes to believe that he is the only real person around whom the world revolves. When Nick announces this belief and refuses to perform on the night of a big concert, he sees how quickly his world turns against him. His theory is put to a test as he tries to escape his world.
Hella W
Set Designer
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.
A Rare Grand Alignment
Production Design
Directed by Cinqué Lee. Plot currently unknown.