Selma Vilhunen
2021Dinosaurus
Veikko Aaltonen
Rauni Mollberg, Pirjo Honkasalo
Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.
The Dinosaur
Ponitytöt
Selma Vilhunen
Laura, Nekku
About girls who ride with horses and grow bigger. The film follows three years of age 9 to 19 year old girls who perform ponies and horses at the Poni-Haha Riding School in Hakunila, Vantaa. At the beginning of the story, 12-year-old Laura and his friend Nekku and Heli are in the middle.
Pony Girls
Tyttö nimeltä Varpu
Selma Vilhunen
Linnea Skog, Paula Vesala
Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and Siru's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.
Little Wing
Hölmö nuori sydän
Selma Vilhunen
Jere Ristseppä, Rosa Honkonen
When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.
Stupid Young Heart
Jätkät
Selma Vilhunen
The life and work of Asko and Myrsky in a snowy forest. Asko is a man, Myrsky (Storm) is a horse. During wintertime they make their living working as loggers in the small suburbian forests of the metropolitan area. The work is hard and the days are long. "The man and his horse only have each other for company. Loggers is a film about collaboration between man and animal, and about nearly extinct traditional work set in the 21st century landscape. But above all it is the filmmaker's tribute to steaming testosterone in the freezing cold air.
Loggers
Nordic Factory
Guillaume Mainguet, Aygul Bakanova
Nordic Factory is a Residency, Workshop and Short Film Concept that stimulates cultural and cinematic meetings between young film directors, while giving them an international platform to present their first or second feature projects. This concept continues and builds on an initial, successful collaboration in 2013 between Directors’ Fortnight and the Taipei Film Commission, and will continue in 2015 with a new partner country.
Nordic Factory
The Girl and the Dogs
Guillaume Mainguet, Selma Vilhunen
Fillippa Coster-Waldau, Caroline Stein Frandsen
Mette, Lina and Anna Sophie, three teenagers, are on their way to a party. A strange discovery on a local beach will change the very nature of their friendship.
The Girl and the Dogs
