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- After Finland's Independence Day celebration is interrupted by a terrorist attack on the Presidential Palace and distinguished guests are taken hostage, a security service officer tries to uncover who is trying to destabilize Europe.
- Conductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training.
- Uuno Turhapuro has been elected the President and has some unorthodox plans for the country.
- This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
- Losing faith in their original idea for a movie to celebrate Finland's 50 years of independence, a film crew decides to hire a typical Finnish taxpayer to tell them what to shoot. The result becomes a comedic cavalcade of Finnish promotional clichés - Lapland, sauna, moose hunting, beautiful blond women etc. - as presented by a slick entourage following on the heels of William Nurmi, a Finnish-American hair tonic millionaire on a visit to his ancestors' homeland. Add some half-baked criminal hanky-panky, and towards the end even one of the main characters has to confess to the camera that he's lost track of this movie's plot about fifteen minutes ago.
- A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
- The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruna and Karen make sure that it pays off.
- Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
- A summer romance remembered.
- Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
- The indigenous Sámi people are fighting for their existence. Current governmental policies permit their cultural genocide. This is a cry for help for the last indigenous people in the EU.
- Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
- Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions. The dramatic plot is frequently interrupted by absurd comic relief.
- The Kiljunen family wins a holiday to the city. Helsinki will never be the same again.
- It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport Samu picks up a fascinating customer: a Finnish mercenary Hans, who has returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years. Hans hires Samu to go on a mission with him: to find Laura, the daughter of his recently deceased best friend and brother in arms. The quest to find Laura leads the men around the wintry city, to places and people from Hans's past. As Samu watches Hans confront his past, he begins to open his eyes to his own future. When the eventful mission reaches its end, both of the men's lives are forever changed.
- Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
- Irmeli wants a certain job as a secretary but finds out that she would have to be married in order to get the vacancy. She lies that she has recently married and then gets a stranger from a nearby restaurant to pose as her husband. Complications arise when they have to continue their charade.
- Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
- Invisible spacemen, a scatterbrained professor and the National Conciliator of Finland all come together in this screwball comedy.
- Kultsi's uncle dies and he is about to inherit great amount of money. Problem is that there's another heir, Wilhelm. Testament contains a contest where each heir must grow their funds as big as possible. Both Kultsi and Wilhelm get a couple of million start money. Kultsi's friend Auvo is a business mastermind and helps him to do right investments. Soon Wilhelm becomes desperate and employ two amateur thieves...
- Two toy manufacturers fight over market shares. One of them is Jim King whose accountant gives him some precarious ideas on how to avoid paying taxes. King is also after his rival's daughter - and her money. An array of gadgets almost steals the show: miniature submarines and helicopters, egg guns and boomerangs. The last 14 minutes are shot in colour, as seen by a gangster waking up to his first sober morning in years.
- Cat's disappearance gets old poor old hippy filmmaker to reminiscing old times.
- In spring 2020, Marlena gets laid off and ends up isolated in her home. As she struggles to find motivation for job hunting and working hard for the money, Marlena decides to try something else: selling her used panties. In the era of sex positivity, selling panties online seems like a fast track to have a bit of fun and get your hands on the same money as part-timing in the service sector. Any self-aware millennial can put their ass on the line?
- Tanja Bulkova, who arrives in Finland under the name Toini Salonen with the help of spy chief Rosenberg, becomes secretary to engineer Rautavuori and finds out about the blueprints of a secret invention.
- Joel Orma is a burglar known for his blue outfit. He breaks into the bedroom of director Tuula's daughter Raila is surprised but escapes. Later they meet in another situation Without Tuula knowing that Joel is the burglar.
- A story about children who miss their parents and parents who shirk their responsibilities.
- After spending an enjoyable summer with a guy in the archipelago, a girl comes to Helsinki and goes through a meandering search trying to find him again.
- Ansa I. and Tauno Palo (leading man) were, you could say, a legendary filmstar couple in Finland since late thirtieth. You may even say that they in some extent kept up the morale of the people during those hard Days in forties (two wars). In civil they were not a couple as many people at Time and later have thought, but both had their own longlasting marriage. I think this ( in english: The Days of the Solution) was their last joint film. The plot: At the beginning Tauno P ( as Major in the war) is obliged to give a death sentence to a soldier (or a lower officer?), a married man, for his insubordination. Ten years after the war he meets a woman, both taking a fancy to eachother. And then, after some Time....
- Two well to do ladies are wooed by ennui upper class lads/men: a chance encounter with a stranger of seemingly lesser class causes one to be all a flutter, especially when her own riches family are threatened with bankruptcy: but was the stranger really what he seemed? Will happy ever after class equilibrium be safely navigated and restored?
- Country boy Oskari travels with his mother to the city. There he meets his superhero. However, all is not quite as seven-year-old Oskari imagined. He is faced with a difficult choice.
- "Orango" an prologue to an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy.