Juhani Niemelä

Bir tarafta Helsinki'de yaşayan suratsız ve soğuk bir adam olan restoran sahibi Wickström, diğer tarafta ise bombalarla sarsılan Halep'ten kaçarak kız kardeşi ile yollara düşen Suriyeli bir göçmen, Khaled. Bu uzun yolculukta kız kardeşi kaybolur ve Khaled bir geminin kazan dairesinde Helsinki'ye varır. Adeta bir uzaylı gibi gezdiği Finlandiya'da göçmenlik başvurusu yapan Khaled'i bürokratik saçmalıklar rahat bırakmaz ve göçmenlik bürosu, Halep'te bir sorun olmadığını, o yüzden ülkesine geri dönmesi gerektiğini söyler. Bir yandan da kız kardeşini bulmaya çalışan Khaled, Wickström'ün restoranında yaşamaya başlar. Bu birbirinden tamamen farklı iki insan hem iş arkadaşı hem de dost olurken dünya da her zamanki gibi dönmeye devam edecektir.

Bir adam kendisine yeni bir hayat kurmak için Helsinki'ye gelir. Amacı yeni bir iş bulmaktır. Fakat ölesiye dayak yedikten sonra tüm hafızasını kaybeder.. Soğukkanlılığını korumaya çalışarak, ayakta durmaya çalışır. Kendisine yardımcı olmak isteyen çok fazla gönüllü çıkmaz. İş ve işçi bulma kurumundan da herhangi bir sonuç çıkmayınca, Kurtuluş Ordusu'na yardımcı olmaya başlar. Ordunun bandosu yeni bir uğraşın kapısını aralayacaktır. Fakat hatırlayamadığı geçmişi, kendisine pusu kurmuş beklemektedir!. Aki Kaurismäki'nin Finlandiya üçlemesinin ikinci ayağı olan yapım, 2002 yılının en başarılı filmlerinden biri oldu. Cannes'da Jüri Büyük Ödülü'nü kazanmasının ardından gösterildiği tüm festivallerde olağanüstü bir heyecanla karşılandı...

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.

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.

Umur tells a love story strongly connected to the nature of Lapland, in which Poika, a young border guard played with sensitivity by Heikki Rantanen, falls passionately in love with the mysterious Lapland beauty Umuri.

The second part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Heta Niskavuori marries Akusti, a farmhand. Together, they build a magnificent house from a croft, and Akusti forges a distinguished career in society. To Heta, however, he will always be a farmhand.

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakko's, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakkos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

The story of an unspecified country ravaged by civil war, with its rebels and spies.

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.

The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.

A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

The first part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Loviisa comes to Niskavuori as Juhani's young wife. She has to fight for her right to the house and her husband, but finds her own way of life and takes her place as the mistress of the house. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

The story of Veikko, whose values are thrown into crisis in a profit-driven society. However, Veikko does not give up. His sense of justice is put to the test, and his integrity is weighed in the balance.

A criminal investigator arrives to investigate the murder of Annikki Niemi in a village whose residents remain silent about the killing. Local boss Onni Pukari and his shady associates try to prevent the investigator from finding the murderer.

Yaşadığı trajik kayıplar sadece birkaç ay sonra dedektik Sofia Karppi, Helsinki'deki bir inşaat şirketiyle bağlantıları olan bir kadının öldürülmesini araştırır.

Helsinki in the summer is shown differently through the eyes of the homicide unit detectives, Timo Harjunpää and Onerva Nykänen; painting a picture of the city where people are not safe in the streets or not even in their own homes. In the midst of the hard crimes it is impossible not to feel the constant worry about your own family while being afraid of losing touch with your children.