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- A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?
- Three 30-something Finnish filmmakers travel around Finland to interview ordinary people and paint a picture of Finland in the year 1970.
- This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- A promising figure skater flees from Russia to Finland to escape her inhumane circumstances.
- Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern Finland. Jade Warrior is set in ancient China early iron age and present day Finland. The past is feeding the story in present day, slowly revealing our warrior his real origin, his superior skills and his destiny. Jade Warrior - the first Finnish Kung Fu film - combines Finnish and Chinese mythologies into one film. Jade Warrior is an homage to Kung Fu genre strongly spiced with a truly original approach to Finnish national epic Kalevala. Like Kalevala Jade Warrior is a pure melodrama. A story of Kalevala's greatest hero.
- A new film-adaptation of Väinö Linna's famous book here Beneath the North Star.
- Pelle Hermanni is an absent-minded but good-hearted circus clown at Sirkus Hepokatti. Hermanni leaves clowning behind when he finds mail in a bottle from his father Kasper, who has set out to measure the globe with his feet. Hermanni sets off in search of his father, followed by the son of magician Max, ten-year-old Roni.
- FC Venus is a romantic comedy about men, women and soccer.
- The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
- Villagers are afraid of Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen, who keeps them on their toes every day. When someone places a bounty on Rauni's head, he goes after this mysterious person.
- The people of Sirkus Hepokatti decide to organize a big surprise party for Pelle Hermanni, while the ruthless leader of the competing circus wants Pelle Hermanni to become the main attraction of his own circus.
- Agent 000 must stop an evil organization which holds a weapon capable of controlling minds.
- The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara (Tapio Liinoja) and Repe Helismaa (Martti Suosalo), who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965 (Helismaa's death). Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music.
- A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers, that shocked Finland in 2001.
- The life story of Jean Sibelius, a Finnish composer.
- A cancer patient meets a new friend at the hospital, and together they escape on the adveture of their lives.
- Australian mega-corporation SuperCon is acquiring media companies around the globe. Radio Treble is also in danger of being swallowed by the monopoly. Ari, Leo and Otto, are sent to Sydney to try and save the jobs. They may not be the negotiators that the situation would require, but they are the only negotiators available. It's the end of the world as they know it and the future of the whole company lays on their shoulders.
- The lives of two close childhood friends drift apart after they choose different career paths.
- A crackpot inventor tests his newest invention, a pill that removes all sexual inhibitions, on unsuspecting guests and staff members at a health spa.
- A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments.
- A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
- Two idiot ex-policemen turns out to be private detectives. Comedy follows their mistakes.
- Jari is a quiet Karhu-drinker. It is just another Thursday until the birthday beast, Markku, arrives at the motel of Raumantie. Jari was not prepared for Markku.
- A documentary about Anneli Auer, who is accused of murdering her husband.
- Follows the (succesful) presidential campaign of _Sauli Niinistö_ from inside of the campaign office.
- Filmmaker Beryl Koltz's journey through the virtual - and real - life of Pit Vinandy aka Cyberpiper.
- Criminal gangs find profit in distilling and bootlegging moonshine during the Finnish prohibition in the 1930s.
- The documentary short from the Pori Jazz 69 Festival in Finland.
- The Knife, who has been serving the television company, VoltaCore, for many years, has to face his final nightmare on the battle arena. He is condemned to fight his only friend, the Prisoner.
- Architectural documentary of the villa Mairea, designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. The building was constructed in 1938-1939.
- Adopted from an American model into a Finnish version of the candid camera programs. The same jokes/comedy are still in use, and foreign influences are so obvious that you don't even have to start searching for their source.