Anneli Karppinen

Tonttu Toljanterin joulumieli

Anneli Karppinen, Kunto Ojansivu

Concrete Night

Pirjo Honkasalo

Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman

A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.

The Midwife

Antti Jokinen

Krista Kosonen, Lauri Tilkanen

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.