Susanna Anteroinen

Acımasız kader, talihsiz insanlar ve etrafta kol gezen kötülük üzerine vurucu bir film... Buz Diyarı pek çok insanın kaderinin kesiştiği duygu yüklü bir dram. Filmde yaşanan olaylar günümüzde geçer. Karakterleri bir araya getiren olaylar zinciri, sahte bir 500 Euro ile başlar. Filmin ana temasını cesaret, bağışlayıcı olmanın ve hayatta kalma mücadelesi vermenin zorluğu oluşturuyor. Buz Diyarı Şubat 2005'te 28. Göteborg Film Festivali'nde Kuzey Filmleri Yarışması kategorisinde toplam dört ödül alarak festivalin en başarılı filmi olmuştur. Buz Diyarı duygusal yoğunluğu, temposu ve günümüz Finlandiya'sının gerçekçi tasviriyle kaçırılmaması gereken bir film. Film dramatik ve trajik olayların yanı sıra aksiyonu, sıcaklığı ve kara mizah unsurunu başarıyla bir arada sunuyor.

Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.

The Päätalo film tells the story of Kalle Päätalo, a carpenter and master builder, and his burning desire to become a writer, as well as the long road that led to the creation of Päätalo's first novel. Too much hard work, too little love in his marriage, and too little self-confidence prevent Kalle Päätalo from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Until he finds new love.

Marja Sauri, who lives in Helsinki at the end of the 1980s, is going to the store to replace defective garden shears with new ones. Along the way, she collides with a woman on the street who Marja insults in anger. Within a day, Marja begins to see strange delusions about the same woman she encountered earlier.

Old friends Masa and Tapsa have very different life situations: Masa is happily married but Tapsa has recently lost his wife and is a single-parent. Masa tries to help Tapsa inviting him to a pottery class. However the whole pottery class begins to help Masa and soon all the lonely ones in the class open up to each other.

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.

Mirccu has a dream job as the PR coordinator of a record company. When her boss, the music mogul Martin threatens to fire her, she is forced to find her own way to success. Together with her football-playing boyfriend Roba who is recovering from an ankle injury she has to reflect whether the good times are really over, and to what lengths they are willing to go to survive. She is given one last chance to prove herself by successfully launching the career of an obnoxious fifteen-year-old teenage star-to-be with the code name Dirty Bomb.

The friendship story between an elderly man and a young man and their journey to meet an old front-line veteran who has decided to settle his score with society.

An afternoon newspaper reporter's tape recorder picks up sensitive information while he is working on a story about so-called yuppie culture. The picture shows the symbols of yuppie life, from muscle boats and convertibles to Mobira Cityman 900 mobile phones. However, a murder within the inner circle brings the superficial world of money and sex to a halt.

Rauno Rämekorpi is celebrating his 60th birthday. He has been awarded the title of Industrial Counsellor, and the company's management has commissioned a biography of him. After the celebrations, the industrial counsellor orders a taxi to take the flowers brought by the guests to the landfill. However, taxi driver Seppo Sorjonen convinces Rämekorpi to change his mind – the flowers are taken to a few female friends instead.

Salatut elämät (Secret Lives) is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment block in Helsinki.

Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.

This emotion-packed hospital drama asks a bold question: How far are you ready to go to save your loved one? Are you capable of doing bad things to achieve something good? How far could you bend your morality to save the life of your nearest and dearest? This hospital is pushing the envelope.