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1) Hatching
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12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
2) Sampo
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Based on the Finnish national epic “Kalevala,” director Aleksandr Ptushko’s ravishing, mystical fantasy tells the story of a sinister witch Louhi (Anna Orochko) who covets the Sampo, a magical, rainbow-colored mill that can produce endless salt, grain, and gold. When the hero Lemminkäinen (Andris Oshin) attempts to stop her, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into eternal darkness.
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Set in a dystopian world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of Logan's Run, the film follows a historian of late 20th century culture (played by Arto Tuominen) researching the mysterious death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model. Director Jarva was one of Finland’s most acclaimed fiction filmmakers...
4) Pretty Boy
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What would you do if your back was against the wall and you were running out of options?
Would you be tempted? Tempted to accept an offer that could make things a little easier. No matter what, or who, it cost?
Pretty Boy is a story of one couple's struggle to survive in a dark, unforgiving city. In a world full of addiction, desperation and isolation, anyone can become lost... but can they also be saved?
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Children are a trust and precious gift given to parents by Allah (God). Parents are responsible for the care and upbringing of their children. On judgment day, parents will be held accountable for how they raised their children. With proper upbringing, one must teach Islam and introduce who Allah (God) is at an early age so that they can develop their Islamic worldview and virtues. A fun way to start introducing Allah (God) to your children is to...
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The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.
And yet…
As in all wars, life goes on. The Weasley twins expand their business. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers...
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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition...
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Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally...
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There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Potter’s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?
Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale...
10) Anna Liisa
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Anna Liisa is Minna Canth's play from 1895. A few days before her marriage Anna Liisa has to decide whether to confront her past or marry another man, who otherwise threatens to reveal her dark secret.
This edition, part of the Finnish Easy Reading series, is written in simplified Finnish, suitable for readers with intermediate Finnish language skills. The play is rewritten in the form of a novel. The book contains also vocabulary footnotes and...
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For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts . . . he's...
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Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including...
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Vain muutama kuukausi on kulunut ensimmäisen elokuvan, Ihmeotukset ja niiden olinpaikat, tapahtumista. Gellert Grindelwald on paennut AYT:n (Amerikan Yhdysvaltain taikakongressin) otteesta ja kerää kasaan joukkoja. Hän haluaa, että velhot hallitsevat kaikkia olentoja, joilla ei ole maagisia kykyjä.
Tylypahkan muodonmuutosten opettaja ja Grindelwaldin entinen ystävä Albus Dumbledore lähettää Lisko Scamanderin pysäyttämään Grindelwaldin....
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In the uproarious second season of this relatable comedy from Finland, 30-something couple, Aino and Micke consider starting a family, which is easier said than done! Especially when they share their apartment with Aino's unemployed brother. Will their parents give them the space they need? Is the time right to have a baby, especially now that their careers are at a critical turning point?
15) Heavy trip
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In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer...
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"Maarit (Leea Klemola) has successfully managed to live a double life - a male body transformed into an attractive and intelligent woman. Maarit's new life has come with a considerable price, as many transgendered individuals have discovered. Among the most painful burdens Maarit must bear is the longing to revive a fractured relationship with her daughter Pinja (Emmi Nivala). Her life takes an unexpected turn the day her employer, a therapist, leaves...
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Criterion collection volume 922
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"This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo-- and the paths...
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