Pekka Valkeejärvi

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Pekka Hyytiäinen

Pekka Valkeejärvi, Riitta Kymäläinen

An experimental student film about failure and existential anxiety relating to student life.

Anna-Liisa

Tuija-Maija Niskanen

Anna-Leena Härkönen, Heikki Paavilainen

A Long Hot Summer

Perttu Leppä

Unto Helo, Hanna-Mari Karhinen

The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s.

Hellsinki

Aleksi Mäkelä

Samuli Edelmann, Peter Franzén

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

Pearls and Pigs

Perttu Leppä

Mikko Leppilampi, Laura Birn

When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.

Vares: Private Eye

Aleksi Mäkelä

Juha Veijonen, Laura Malmivaara

On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.

8-Ball

Aku Louhimies

Jessica Grabowsky, Eero Aho

8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.

Niskavuori

Matti Kassila

Satu Silvo, Esko Salminen

Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public secret. Aarne's wife Martta, who owns half of Niskavuori, wants to hold on to her husband until the last. For Liskisa, the matriarch of Niskavuori, the most important thing is the reputation and honor of the family.

Producing Adults

Aleksi Salmenperä

Minna Haapkylä, Kari-Pekka Toivonen

Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.

Rikos & rakkaus

Pekka Milonoff

Kai Lehtinen, Tiina Lymi

Hyvä poika

Zaida Bergroth

Samuli Niittymäki, Elina Knihtilä

When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.

Sairaan kaunis maailma

Jarmo Lampela

Joonas Bragge, Arttu Kapulainen

Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.

Pimeys odottaa

Pauli Pentti

Pekka Valkeejärvi, Riitta Havukainen

Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.

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.

8 päivää ensi-iltaan

Perttu Leppä

Laura Birn, Mikko Leppilampi

8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.

MP - minä pelkään

Pekka Hyytiäinen

Pekka Valkeejärvi, Liisa Halonen

In the near future, an out-of-control military drill shatters the peace of a family spending their summer vacation. War appears to be breaking out – or are the shocking events just a fabrication of the protagonists’ imagination?