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Sari is a high school principal with high standards but no idea of what to do with them. In the teachers' lounge her nitpicky style hasn't won her popularity. When Sari hears that the teachers are organizing a get-together and she's not invented, she decides to act: get an invitation and win everyone's hearts. There is nothing standing in the way of her and popularity - except one broken mug.
Jan 2016
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.
Nov 2011
Janika takes advantage of her pregnancy by smuggling amphetamine from Tallinn to Helsinki with her brother.
Dec 2020
Story about 29-year-old Krisu, who is quite lost in her life. Luckily, she has a indie band called Wendy and the Refugee Neverland.
Jul 2017
Young man loses his job as a recruiter at the network marketing hoax. Being forced to leave his employers quarters he ends up in the streets and bumps into a young girl, an outcast who has recently lost her mother. He moves in her shabby flat – just to get through the worst, with no romantic intentions. A fatal mistake, involving a middle-class suburbia, a time bank system and a battered couple change plans.
Jan 2012
Olivia is a depressed guardian angel who doesn't fit in at all at her overly positive office in heaven. Miina, a party girl struggling to survive on Earth, lives with a huge wound and is in constant danger of losing her life. When Olivia is sent to protect Miina, both must see in the other exactly what scares them the most.
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Digging up the memory of the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Grey Wolf tells a historical story with a modern twist. When Viktor Stark, a peaceful writer of the conservative Whites, finds a wounded enemy soldier hiding for his life, Stark’s values and loyalty are measured against each other. Will he choose a higher moral or otherness? The answer is revealed in the final scene that turns the whole world around. Grey Wolf is set in history, but truly, it tells about us.
May 2018
Recast is a satirical black comedy about how one can remain true to themselves through the gauntlets of the industrial machine - or can they?
May 2025
Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel. The shabby hotel offers a life outside the society, at least momentarily. The house is more than a house – it is a utopian space for love, partying and freedom. But can the days of ease last when the squat is confronted both by outside forces and by internal conflicts?
Out into the big wide world as fast as possible. That’s Elli’s plan. But where should she get the money from, if not steal it? When Heze falls for her, she steals from him and both have to learn: “Adulthood is a big pain in the arse”.
Mar 2012
Sampo introduces his girlfriend Heli for the first time to his whole family at his parent´s wedding anniversary party. As the night goes on, they learn new and unexpected traits of each other.
Sep 2020
Sami directs a reality series but ends up as the main character.
A short film by Olli Ilpo Salonen.
Jan 2014
A couple tries to awaken their faded love by feeding it earthly possessions. But regret and paranoia arise when their tenderness transforms into mental violence towards oneself and the other.
Aug 2016
Joy the Magic Clown’s faith in herself is being tested. But if you can’t believe in yourself, how can you believe in magic?
May 2023
Three friends celebrate midsummer together in a remote house. The next morning one of them is missing. Lila and Siiri recount their different takes on last night's events, trying to figure out where Riina could be. Siiri keeps trying to tell Lila something she is not willing hear.
Jun 2023
Jan 2007
Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.
The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.
May 2024
Pirjo, still stuck in her past, gets kidnapped by her pet crab Sebastian who turns out to be an alien. Sebastian wants to save her since the world is about to end at 10 p.m. today. However, Pirjo refuses to leave the planet without a memento of her beloved Ester and Sebastian won’t leave without Pirjo. The clock is ticking.
Aug 2022