In 1929, the Great Depression leaves millions of Americans without work. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, invites the workers of the world to come and build the first socialist state. The largest migration that has ever taken place from the USA starts, and soon over 10,000 Americans have left the country to start up a new life in the Soviet Union. Language: Finnish, English, Russian / Subtitles: Swedish/Some showings have no subtitles; Finnish (in scenes where other languages are spoken)
A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
An enigmatic young woman in conflict - torn between reason and passion; between her woman's body and being raised as a prince; between the ancient and modern worlds and between the brilliance of her educated mind and the conservative forces around her. Crowned Queen at the age of six, Kristina of Sweden was thrust into a labyrinth of power and tradition, where a court of austere, Lutheran men pressure her to marry and produce an heir to fulfill her destiny.
A film about the shadows and lights of modern architecture and the plans of a dream house by one architect (Hannu-Pekka Björkman) and his hope to find the beauty and the authenticity after 50 years of separation from his childhood’s love.
Heli Valkonen (42) is desperately in love with her husband Matti (43). But he almost never wants sex. He just plays computer games in his worn-out fleece pants. Giving a nice shoulder massage is the best form of intimacy for him. When subtle hints, beautiful talk and tasty underwear don’t help Heli relies on more and more direct action – but in vain. “Honey, not now.” Calmly and humiliatingly Matti rejects his wife's sexual advances. Heli meets a young producer named Jarno. Before long Heli and Jarno are having an affair. “We'll just go to bed. A couple of thrusts don't count.
Ella and her friends find out that their much-loved neighborhood school will be shut down, and all the kids will be relocated to a brand new central school – errr, sorry, not simply a school, but something much fancier: a Centralized Learning and Schooling Facility located in the city centre. They soon find out that the most popular kid in the new facility, Ef One, is to blame for their misery. Or, to be more precise, his insanely rich father is. Ella and her friends decide to team up with the teacher to fight for their old school.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Helsinki was actually two cities; that of the rich upper class and that of the poor workers. South of the Long bridge the independent and cuirious Lucie is growing up, refusing to fit the mold of the upper class women. Lucie´s soul mate and friend in adolescence is Eccu, who has been fiercely in love with the wild and eccentric Lucie since the age of 17. However, the only one who can set Lucie´s heart on fire is Allu, a younger working class hero, football genius and son of a Red rebel.
Cast: Peter Franzén, Irina Björklund, Jenni Banerjee, Sampo Sarkola, Rosa Salomaa, Niilo Syväoja, Jorma Tommila, Ville Virtanen, Tommi Korpela, Maria Järvenhelmi
Cast: Ilkka Koivula, Vera Kiiskinen, Risto Tuorila, Ritva Jalonen, Sampo Sarkola, Reino Nordin, Arttu Kurttila, Anna Lipponen, Lauri Kukkonen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Jonna Järnefelt, Ville Virtanen
Sauna is a cruel horror film bathing in the Finnish sauna culture, in the no-zone between Christianity and paganism. It is aa story of two brothers, who leave a young girl to die and become haunted by her, as she follows them in supernatural form, her face pouring with endless filth. The brothers escape with a commission marking the border between Russia and Finland to a Russian-Orthodox village. In there they find a sauna - The sauna where all sins are washed away. Seeking for forgiveness, the brothers step into the sauna… Sauna is a horror film about sins, repentance and forgiveness.
