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2) Hatching
Language
Finnish
Description
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.
Language
Finnish
Description
An action-thriller based on a bestselling novel "6/12" by Ilkka Remes. Finland’s Independence Day celebration on December 6 is crudely interrupted by an attack to the Presidential Residence. A set of distinguished guests are taken as hostages. Security service officer Max Tanner is set as the negotiator of the hostage crisis. Tanner must make bold and even painful decisions to figure out who is behind the attack. After all, there are not only human...
Language
Finnish
Description
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...
5) Sampo
Language
Finnish
Description
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.
Language
Finnish
Description
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...
7) The Red Ring
Language
Finnish
Description
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.
Language
Finnish
Description
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?...
9) Kelet
Language
Finnish
Description
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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