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UNKNOWN SOLDIER by award-winning Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms, showing how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and from the battlefield. The war changes each of the soldiers, as well as the lives of those...
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After a man is beaten and declared dead, he suddenly sits up and walks out of the hospital on his own. Determined to start his life over in a new town and unable to remember his name or anything about his past, he becomes involved with a mother and her sons. Everything seems good until his past comes back to haunt him.
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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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A funny and moving film about the power of imagination and the strength of a community, directed by **Oscar**-nominee Selma Vilhunen. The film follows three young girls, Aisku, Elsa and Alisa whose lives have been transformed by their new interest: hobbyhorses. Despite a lack of understanding by some, the girls bravely and spiritedly pursue their hobby. Official Selection at **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**. *"A refreshing...
6) 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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Arctic Circle volume 1
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A Finnish police officer discovers a dying Russian sex worker carrying a deadly virus.
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Arctic Circle volume 1
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Nina settles into life in a new city. After first rejecting an offer to work on an assassination case, a dramatic turn linking the murder to Nina's former case forces her to reconsider.
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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...
10) 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...
12) The Red Ring
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The director, Joonas Berghäll, who suffers from chronic Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections, seeks a cure to his illness and answers to why efforts aren’t made to stop the global Lyme disease epidemic before it’s too late.
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This hilarious Finnish short film was a Nominee for Best Short Film, Live Action at 2014 Academy Awards. Sini wakes up in a panic: she has slept in and the family is late for a wedding. She wakes up her husband Jokke and daughters Ella and Kerttu. They start to prepare themselves in a hurry. Mother is going crazy since nobody else seems to be able to do anything right. Who has messed father's shirt, and hid the girls' dresses and the wedding gift?...
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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...
15) 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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Critically acclaimed at Venice and SXSW, this charming Finnish romance becomes an atypical action-thriller, empathetically shot from the perspective of a man who is blind and disabled. The brightest moments in movie lover Jaakko's day are shared on the phone with Sirpa, the woman he loves even though they've never met in person. When Sirpa gets difficult news, Jaako decides he must go to her immediately, but will need the help of five kind strangers...
17) Kelet
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KELET radiates like a star who was born to walk the runway. She is a young Somali trans woman who dreams of becoming a Vogue model. Leaving her family in Manchester to return to her childhood home in Finland, she draws on the support of her friends in the Vogue community to immerse herself in Helsinki’s glamour. Watch this shy and courageous young woman build a new life for herself, face her fears and her past, and succeed in following her dreams....
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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....
19) 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.
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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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