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- DirectorPeter von BaghStarsSiiri AngerkoskiRitva ArveloSusanna HaavistoHistory and the spirit of XXth century Helsinki through the cinema, documentary footage, architecture, art and politics.
- DirectorErik BlombergStarsMirjami KuosmanenKalervo NissiläÅke LindmanA newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
- StarsVeikko Itkonen
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlexandrov Red Army EnsembleTwist-Twist ErkinharjuBen GranfeltA 57 minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman".
- DirectorTarja MattilaStarsKaroliina MustonenTuula RantalaRaija HaukijärviTobacco Girls is a film about three women, Karoliina, Tuula and Raija, who try to cope with losing their long-term jobs. After operating for 54 years in the town of Tuusula, the Amer-Tupakka tobacco company closed down in spring 2004 and 260 employees were fired. Thousands and thousands of jobs in Finnish industry have disappeared. Finland is preparing for a new society where employees will increasingly work as specialists and consultants. The sad thing is that education lags behind for a couple of generations. What are the possibilities for uneducated women to return to the labour market? Courses must be taken just for the sake of it. Other courses that would help factory workers to get re-employed are not arranged. What is the purpose of the State's labour force policy? Tobacco Girls follows the life of three women for almost two years and shows through personal emotions and experiences what really happens to the unemployed factory workers.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEeva-Maija HaukinenErkki PajalaHeikki HämäläinenA physiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
- DirectorPeter von BaghStarsPertti Ylermi LindgrenIrma MartinkauppiTitta KarakorpiSleazy impostor, then dance-band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, educationalist, Italian bank executive, or priest, "The Count" always manages to escape with the bride's or her father's money just when the wedding bells start to chime.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsArto TuominenRitva VepsäTarja MarkusA historian in a futuristic dystopian world is researching the death of a free-spirited model who died under mysterious circumstances. He finds Saara's identical double Kisse and convinces her to re-enact Saara's life and death for TV.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsKaarlo OksanenRakel LinnanheimoMirjami KuosmanenAbout Olavi, a farmer's son who leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger.
- DirectorJörn DonnerErkki SeiroJaakko TalaskiviStarsJörn DonnerIrmeli LoikalaJussi NiininenThree 30-something Finnish filmmakers travel around Finland to interview ordinary people and paint a picture of Finland in the year 1970.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsMarianne MardiOssi ElsteläMauritz ÅkermanA Lappish girl, the only daughter of a reindeer herder, rescues a crashed German fighter pilot during WW2. The two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence.
- DirectorNana DzhordzhadzeStarsMerab NinidzeAnja AntonowiczChulpan KhamatovaThe Salzlipp twins grow up without their father. The boy and the girl are convinced he is an important superhero secret agent. But when he eventually comes home, it turns out that he is but a puny, insignificant meteorologist who had been innocently languishing in jail. The children refuse to accept that this is their father. And sexy Mrs. Salzlipp has fallen in love with another man. But Salzlipp fights back. He discovers that he can influence and indeed manipulate the weather. He can turn summertime into deep frost. Magic! As with Dostoyevski's Idiot there's more to Salzlipp than meets the eye. Maybe he can use his gift to win back his family? An imaginative tale about love and respect in a romantic seaside setting.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsJarkko LahtiOona AirolaEero MilonoffThe true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSakari KuosmanenKati OutinenAndré WilmsA farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsElina SaloPaul OsipowTitta KarakorpiLeftist welder and right wing clerk get married. Soon enough they find themselves covered with financial and emotional problems.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariStarsHeikki A. ReenpääJorma OllilaAntti HerlinElegance (Eleganssi) documents the style and elegance in grey partridge and pheasant hunting through a group of Finnish gentlemen hunters, all men from the top of Finnish society for whom hunting is a shared passion and lifestyle.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääKati OutinenSakari KuosmanenAn episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a coworker, a love affair and much more.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMarkku ToikkaAino SeppoEsko NikkariA slaughterhouse worker and former law student, takes vengeance on the man who killed his fiancée in a hit and run accident.
- StarsTarja-Tuulikki TarsalaMikko NiskanenPaavo PentikäinenSmall-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.
- DirectorHugo HytönenNyrki TapiovaaraStarsGunnar HiilloskorpiMirjami KuosmanenHugo HytönenYoung farmer Paavo's wife dies in childbirth, and their baby soon follows. The wife's family claims back the dowry she brought to their marriage, but Paavo has already used most of it for farm improvements. Paavo resorts to drinking and his life heads downhill.
- DirectorMinna VirtanenStarsMi GrönlundNicke LignellJasper PääkkönenJonna, successful ad executive with husband Niklas and two small children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she meets Aleksi, things start going awry in her personal and professional life.