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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Life and times of actor matti pellonpää as remembered by friends and collegues
- Newly graduated Marissa gets a job at an international law consulting company. Marissa is excited about a chance to start a new, independent life. She has been hired by a Finnish man of North African heritage. The work is challenging but rewarding, and Marissa is given a lot of responsibility. Before long Marissa is sent to Germany to make purchases for the company and eventually her boss meets her there. The previously charming man starts to behave threateningly and turns violent. From Germany they head to Tunisia where Marissa is drugged and captured. She is forced to accept a new identity as Sara whose body is only good for desecration, exploitation and abuse. Back Towards Light takes a look into the dark world of human trafficking while telling the story of a survivor bringing her life back together. Marissa believes that one can find a way back into light after a traumatic experience, if only one doesn't hold onto the anger and resentment. The genre is dramatized documentary film, which means that the film is influenced by both documentary and fiction narrative style. The interviews heard in the film are authentic and the situations described in the interviews have been dramatized in scenes interpreted by actors. Apart from Marissa, a number of people connected to the events are interviewed. The interviewees include Marissa's former boyfriend Risto, Detective Superintendent Mika Tauru, Embassy official Päivi Akkanen-Kouki and safe house employee Pentti Petroff. The actors performing the dramatized scenes are Stella Kylä-Liuhala, Kiumars Zarei, Henri Tuominen, Nora Löfving-Lihtonen, Kerli Kyllönen and Pihla Maalismaa. Back Towards Light was shot in Finland and Tunisia. In Tunisia the filming was carried out in collaboration with the local production company Sindbad Productions.
- A triangle drama involving a young unlucky drifter, a nightclub singer and a corrupt police officer.
- 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.