Johanna Tarvainen

Filmes

Fabula Rasa
Producer
Fabula Rasa is a film about regenerative agriculture and a filmmaker’s search for identity. In the short film, documentarist Pieter-Jan Van Damme follows the year-round life of his farm. As the seasons change, there are changes in the vegetation, and the filmmaker contemplates his own relationship with his craft. On the journey into the secrets of ecological farming, Van Damme creates a serene and meditative space for the viewer’s own self-reflection.
See You In an Hour
Producer
Eveliina inherits old binoculars from her grandfather. Her disappointment turns into bafflement when she realizes the binoculars show a view one hour into the future.
Själö - Island of Souls
Producer
Själö means 'the island of souls', and no name could be more fitting for the island in the Baltic Sea, which for centuries was a last stop for women who were considered social outcasts – and who are today forgotten. They were forcibly placed in a closed institution to be studied, measured and weighed – exactly in the way that nature itself was starting to be examined around the same time. Today, the place is a research centre. A young female scientist collects samples on the island, while the whispering voices of the past and never-sent letters echo in the empty hallways.
O Pau
Line Producer
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.
A Violinista
Line Producer
A celebrated violin player, Karin, has to end her stellar career after a car accident makes her fingers stop working their magic. She starts teaching students who are twenty years younger than her, only to find herself falling in love with Antti, one of her students. They are not an easy match, both being passionate about the music and overly ambitious about their careers.
The Ceiling
Line Producer
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.
Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
Assistant Director
A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.
Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
Production Design
A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.
Urban Family
First Assistant Director
Selja is in her thirties and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption sixteen years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son, but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends’ lives. Urban Family is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world.
Sirocco
Post-Production Manager
A lonely woman finds an abandoned baby by her apartment house’s garbage bin, and decides to take the baby home with her.
Vares: The Girls of April
Second Assistant Director
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.