Raimo Grönberg

Kulkuri ja joutsen

Timo Koivusalo

Tapio Liinoja, Martti Suosalo

The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. 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.

Kontakti

Toni Majaniemi

Asko Järvinen, Jori Halttunen

Finland in the 1960s. With a long career behind him, Inspector Osmo Mälkiä starts investigating a double murder that initiates a chain of events from where there is no turning back. As the repercussions of neglect in family life as well as new errors take over, the result is a nightmarish spiral. In the end, it's time to pay - in the heaviest possible way.

The Rose of the Rascal

Timo Koivusalo

Martti Suosalo, Ilkka Koivula

The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.

King of Hearts

Aleksi Mäkelä

Matti Ristinen, Tiina Lymi

The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010.

Juhannushäät

Raija-Sinikka Rantala

Ahti Jokinen, Marjut Toivanen

Olavi Virta

Timo Koivusalo

Lauri Tilkanen, Malla Malmivaara

The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.

Routasydän

Tuomas Sallinen

Mats Långbacka, Katja Kiuru

In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.

Vartioitu kylä 1944

Timo Linnasalo

Raimo Grönberg, Timo Torikka

Kaivo

Pekka Lehto

Merja Larivaara, Auvo Vihro

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

Sibelius

Timo Koivusalo

Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen

Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.

Nuotin vierestä

Lauri Nurkse

Riku Nieminen, Leena Uotila

Dramatic comedy about having fun, throwing yourself into life without inhibition, overcoming the feeling of shame and accepting that few things in life go as planned.

Päivää, herra Kivi

Timo Linnasalo

Kristiina Elstelä, Markku Huhtamo

Eccentric small town librarian Helinä struggles between everyday life and her love for the theatre, directing amateurs for a play by the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi. She still carries the torch for her teenage sweetheart Leo, now a married chimney sweeper but still an aspiring playwright, despite his wife's opinions. Helinä thinks Leo is Aleksis Kivi, and so does Leo himself. Discouraged by the society, they end up in a mental institution but finally manage to stage an outdoor premiere of the play.

Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa

Timo Koivusalo

Vesa-Matti Loiri, Mikko Leppilampi

The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.