Pekka Valkeejärvi

История финской горнодобывающей компании «Талвиваара». В марте 2012 компания получила лицензию на добычу урана, что могло бы сделать Финляндию энергетически независимой державой. Планировалось на никелевом руднике в Соткамо выделять уран из добываемой руды для дальнейшей продажи. «Талвиваара» уверенно шла к своей цели, пренебрегая мнением экологических организаций и десятка министров — противников ядерной энергетики. Но вскоре жители Соткамо стали жаловаться, что вода в соседних озерах стала солёной, в прессе начали появляться фотографии с местных водоемов, покрытых пеной. Эти и другие тревожные сигналы означали одно: начало конца рудного Гиганта.

Пике, бывшая шлюха наркоманка, выходит из тюрьмы. Теперь у нее есть маленькая дочь, и она не может позволить себе совершать ошибки. Но вскоре в ее жизнь возвращается бывший любовник, жестокий уголовник Лалли, принося за собой прошлое, о котором Пике хочет забыть. Страсть между ними разгорается с новой силой. Но Пике твердо решила не возвращаться к прежней жизни. Жесткий и местами откровенный фильм, собрал много наград на разных фестивалях.

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.

Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.

Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in which two guys argue about McDonald's hamburgers. Still, VARES - PRIVATE EYE, by director Aleksi Mäkelä, manages to be kind of fun even not especially original. The script has more characters than the screenwriter can handle, leaving the audience frequently confused about who is doing what and why. The two best scenes are one about a wacky wedding and another about a guy who answers a cell phone call while he is busy enjoying the pleasures of a sex parlor.

When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.

The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s.

Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.

This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.

In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.

Based on the book "Suuri Illusioni" by finnish writer Mika Waltari.

Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.

Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public secret. Aarne's wife Martta, who owns half of Niskavuori, wants to hold on to her husband until the last. For Liskisa, the matriarch of Niskavuori, the most important thing is the reputation and honor of the family.

In the near future, an out-of-control military drill shatters the peace of a family spending their summer vacation. War appears to be breaking out – or are the shocking events just a fabrication of the protagonists’ imagination?

An experimental student film about failure and existential anxiety relating to student life.