Movies

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off...

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...

Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his...

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge...

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of...

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his...

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still...

Matti turns 16 and becomes a man, at least in his father's eyes. Matti wanders around Helsinki, and strange people cling to him like flies to sticky...

Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys'...

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the...

Kari Uusitalo, a regular visitor to the Tampere Film Festival, delved into the state of Finnish cinema of the mid-1980s, while getting to know the...

That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for...

A young advertising executive decides to focus on success in his life. As he concentrates on building his career, both his family and his colleagues...

Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. But the audience fails.

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme.

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show...

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.