Kari Kankaanpää

Фильмы

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.
Купе номер 6
Production Design
Конец 90-х. Финская студентка Лора путешествует из Москвы в Мурманск, чтобы увидеть древние наскальные рисунки. Ее единственный сосед по купе — шахтёр по имени Леха, мрачный нелюдимый тип. Долгая дорога сквозь снега сближает их. Долгая железная дорога. Но у Лехи и Лоры есть ещё кое-что общее, помимо купе, которое они вынужденно делят: оба чувствуют себя чужими в этом мире.
Первый снег
Production Design
История иранской семьи в Финляндии, ожидающей решения о предоставлении статуса беженцев.
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.
Аврора
Production Design
Однажды встречаются двое совершенно разных людей: смертельно больной эмигрант из Ирана, который пытается устроить спокойное будущее для своей восьмилетней дочери и отвязная девушка, которая любит тусоваться с подругой в клубе по ночам, пить алкоголь и не задумывается о будущем.
Оно пришло из пустыни
Production Design
Сочный экшн-фильм про монстров, сделанный по культовой игре 1980-х годов Cinemaware "Оно пришло из пустыни". Ностальгический трибьют о существах из 1950-х вобрал в себя гоняющих на байках героев и героинь, пивные вечеринки в пустыне, секретные военные базы, любовные перепитии и, конечно, гигантов-муравьев.
Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara
Production Design
There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.
Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
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.
Самый счастливый день в жизни Олли Мяки
Production Design
У финского боксера Олли Мяки есть все шансы завоевать титул чемпиона мира в полулёгком весе. Он уже преодолел все неудачи, теперь спортсмену из провинциальной глубинки пророчат славу и богатство. Дело за малым: остается сконцентрироваться на решающем поединке, но на пути к триумфу появляется новое испытание — девушка. Олли Мяки всё же станет легендой спорта, но не благодаря победе.
The Midwife
Production Design
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
Lovemilla
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.