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- DirectorAnssi BlomstedtStarsLaila HelminenVexi Salmi
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsAki KaurismäkiPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasTalkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
- DirectorKari PaljakkaStarsRiitta HavukainenHeidi HeralaPirkko HämäläinenTwo youngsters are spending their weekend holidays in autumn Helsinki. They are joined by a perky girl fleeing her boyfriend and together the trio experience the sorrows and joys of love, freedom and responsibility, singing and dancing.
- DirectorHeikki PaakkanenStarsTommi Kitti
- DirectorRiitta NelimarkkaJaakko Seeck
- DirectorRiitta NelimarkkaJaakko Seeck
- DirectorRiitta NelimarkkaJaakko Seeck
- DirectorClaes OlssonStarsMarcus GrothTomi SalmelaStina Rautelin
- DirectorKari KoskiStarsKari KesäläinenMarkku IntoPentti Siivonen
- DirectorAntti PeippoStarsJukka-Pekka Palo
- DirectorJaakko Ilkka Virtanen
- DirectorPaul-Anders SimmaStarsAnders Wasara
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsKatariina KaituePertti KoivulaAnja PohjolaIn the 1960s, a family's story is seen from the perspective of a young boy leaving for school.
- DirectorKaija JuurikkalaStarsSanna LiljanderOula KittiSoila NiemiA confused movie about children in a world from which adults have disappeared.
- DirectorHeikki AholaStarsHilkka AhdeMatti AhdeKlaus Bremer
- DirectorTuija HalttunenStarsAnna-Liisa HämäläinenMatti Hämäläinen
- DirectorPekka UotilaStarsJanne Nurmimaa
- DirectorKaisa Penttilä
- DirectorJohn WebsterStarsJohn WebsterJörn DonnerMarjo Matikainen-KallströmTracking missing socks in the European Union
- DirectorEsa IlliStarsVille VirtanenMax BremerNiklas Häggblom
- DirectorP.V. LehtinenStarsGlyn BanksSynnöve GrönforsMax GrönwallDiving is like poetry, each movement flowing into the next.
- DirectorJanne KuusiStarsTeijo ElorantaTiina PirhonenSari Havas
- DirectorVeli GranöStarsAnne PajuluomaJarmo YlänenJarmo Ylänen is a self taught artist who believes he is painting his works in collaboration with Vincent van Gogh. The work reconstructs the unique experiences of Anne Pajuluoma and Jarmo, the representatives of "star people", who lead their unordinary, materially extremely meagre lives in the midst of miracles. It is estimated that on our planet there are tens of thousands of star people, to whom one or both of their parents might be visitors from space. Some of the star people as residents of faraway planets have moved to the Earth while many of them do not know their origins.
- DirectorVisa Koiso-KanttilaStarsVisa Koiso-KanttilaAaro Koiso-KanttilaTimo Koiso-KanttilaFilm dealing with the relationship between parents and children in four different generations from the perspective of director Koiso-Kanttila's family. In addition to the director, his father, grandfather and two sons appear in the film.
- DirectorKanerva CederströmStarsKonstantin GontcharovAmanda Löfman
- DirectorMervi JunkkonenStarsMaija JunkkonenPentti JunkkonenIn the Autumn of 2002 the cows of the Junkkonen farm are taken to the slaughterhouse. The wheels of progress roll onwards, but two middle-aged people get left behind, Maija and Pentti Junkkonen. The small municipality of Oulunsalo is planning factories, business parks, and a new 4-lane road which would cut through the farmers' fields. The old ways of making a living are dying. The oldest daughter, director Mervi Junkkonen, realizes that she herself is part of the reason why her parents decided to give up their livelihood-there is no one to take over the farm. Through her father's 8mm films, she catches glimpses of the farm's history and a time when it was full of life. Now, Pentti (60), spends his time with his collection of tractors and some small-scale farming, but Maija (55) doesn't know what to do. Yet, life keeps taking tragic turns and old worries do not seem so important any more. About a Farm is the director's personal inquiry into a vanishing life-style and a history of which she is the last link. It is a story about the period of mourning people who give up their livelihoods go through and about the things that really matter in the end.
- DirectorReijo KelaStarsReijo Kela
- DirectorPanu HeikkiläStarsVille HaapasaloOleg LetnikovOlga ShuvalovaFinnish-Russian Kostya is in his thirties and lives an unstable life. He keeps his distance from his father and his thoroughly Russian friends. When Kostya meets Masha, a young stripper girl from St. Petersburg, the difficult relations with his father get a new turn.
- DirectorKiti LuostarinenA film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love.
- DirectorHannes VartiainenPekka VeikkolainenHanasaari A is an experimental documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant. The old industrial milieu is being destroyed to make space for modern housing units. The film is a combination of animation, live action cinematography, and graphic elements. It is based on 500 000 photographs taken during the final two years of the existence of the power plant.
- DirectorJoonas BerghällMika HotakainenStarsTimo AaltoPekka AhonenAarne AksilaFinnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart.
- DirectorJan Ijäs
- DirectorAntti Heikki PesonenStarsArmi ToivanenSanteri Helinheimo MäntyläJuha KukkonenA working class woman tries to figure out whether to fall in love with a young boy or use him for money.
- DirectorMika RonkainenStarsAnna JärvinenHeikki KiviahoHarri MantyA son and a father go on a road trip that turns into a musical journey into the emotional memory and the history of Finnish immigration in Sweden; of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism, and family secrets.
- DirectorJuan ReinaStarsMukamusoni NyiratungaHogoza UwamahoroFrank NiyonzimaA single mother of three children lives in a refugee camp in Rwanda. One day she receives a permission to be relocated to Finland. 6954 Kilometers to Home is an hour documentary, which observes the family's journey from very primitive life conditions to a modern environment exploring their first steps towards Westernization.
- DirectorHamy RamezanStarsSalar AshtiyaniYazdan AkhoondiShaghayeh DjodatIran, 1984. Homeless brothers struggle to survive in a country at war.
- DirectorSanna Liljander
- DirectorAnni OjaStarsMika KoskinenPentti HalonenMarkus TervolaA man sports a magnificent mustache, and wants the world to know it too. But then he meets a man with equally impressive facial hair. A battle of mustaches ensues.
- DirectorSelma VilhunenStarsMariam NjieElsa FionuirAlisa AarniomäkiA funny and moving film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.
- DirectorMarja HelanderStarsBirit HaarlaKatja HaarlaTwo sister ballerinas dance through the villages and forests of the Sámi land in this whimsical and disarming commentary on indigenous sovereignty and land ownership (The Sámi are the only indigenous people within the European Union area).
- DirectorMilja ViitaStarsLoa SaloA year in the life of a wildlife bridge over a busy highway in southern Finland, showing the animals crossing over and the traffic flowing under.
- DirectorMinna RainioMark RobertsStarsSarah CarverAnne-Gabriela SchmalstiegHelena WehnerTo Teach a Bird to Fly is an documentary-fiction film that explores bird extinction and climate change through a fictionalized story told from the perspective of the future. A woman relates events from the past - today's world - when her grandmother worked as a foster parent to a critically endangered bird, the Northern Bald Ibis. The film follows the Waldrapp project in Germany, where a young woman (the narrator's future grandmother) helps breed and hand-raise the birds. She spends all her time with the birds as their foster parent, teach them to migrate by following a light aircraft across the Alps to their wintering grounds in Tuscany, Italy. The film highlights this process as a locus of hope, not just for the future of the Ibis, but for the future of the environment and the planet.
- DirectorMarjo LevlinThe narrator collides with animal-shaped shooting targets in the woods. She sets out to unravel a breathtaking and fascinating cultural-historical tangle of animal and human rights: the power of a gaze, the objects of exhibition, and the secondary power of being under scrutiny.
- DirectorMari MantelaStarsAlina TomnikovValtteri LehtinenJouko KlemettiläA woman has turned golden and lost her heartbeat. She makes a journey into the night to find out why.
- DirectorIiti Yli-HarjaStarsFatuRaiLeena UotilaFor Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he's wearing makeup in public.
- DirectorElina TalvensaariStarsWed Al-AsadiAfter escaping the Iraqi civil war, Wed requests asylum in Finland. It is denied even though his attorney is optimistic. It appears to be a mousetrap that drives Wed from pillar to post and into hopelessness.