Sakari Toiviainen's 100 Finnish Films
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- DirectorTeuvo PuroStarsAntti IlvosJussi SnellmanErtta Virtamo
- DirectorTeuvo PuroJussi SnellmanStarsHelmi LindelöfHemmo KallioMeri RoiniAnna-Liisa of Kortesuo is engaged to Johannes of Kivimaa, but she is burdened by a heavy past. On the day of the announcement, Anna-Liisa confesses her crime in the presence of the party guests.
- DirectorErkki KaruStarsAxel SlangusHeidi BlåfieldKirsti SuonioRural comedy of the intrigues and stratagems involving a country wedding.
- DirectorJalmari LahdensuoStarsSimo KaarioOiva SoiniKaisa LeppänenStory of the rebellion of the peasants against the authorities.
- DirectorErkki KaruStarsAxel SlangusWaldemar WohlströmOlga Leino
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsTeuvo TulioMeri HackzellHanna TainiManjardo, a young Gypsy leader headed by Tulio, has spent a lively and joyful life with his young women, Glafira and very keen Akris. He will soon be married to the daughter of the master of another tribe, Esmeralda. From this, her mistresses are no more enthusiastic than Esmeralda and Manjardoka, so the parties of this future couple have never even met each other.
- DirectorKalle KaarnaStarsIris KnapeTauno PaloKaarlo KytöKuisma falls in love with the house maid Helinä, whom the house's slave Isma has kept for himself as a wife. Helinä finds Kuisma attractive but their love will never be accepted by Isma. A passion play that ends bad.
- DirectorNyrki TapiovaaraStarsHannes NärhiIrma SeikkulaWalle SaikkoEastern Finland in 18th century. Farmer Juha has raised an orphan girl Marja and married her. Karelian trader Shemeikka visits the farm and starts to make advances to young and beautiful Marja, tempting her to run away with him.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsIrma SeikkulaTauno PaloTopo LeisteläPoor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie. She works hard, never loses her common sense, and starts taking evening classes. Keeping her studies secret from her employer for years, she eventually graduates from the university and becomes candidate in the parliamentary election, stressing women's and working people's rights. Romance with Judge Soratie finally ensues.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsOlga TainioTauno PaloIrja ElsteläThe first Finnish talking picture (with English subtitles) to be released in the United States is a story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living. Tauno Palo marries Irja Lautia because his mother, Olga Tainio, tells him that his duty as the eldest son is to marry a wealthy girl. However, attractive schoolteacher Sirkka Sari arrives in the village and causes complications when Palo falls in love with her.
- DirectorRisto OrkoStarsTuulikki PaananenRitva AroTuli ArjoThe German 27th Royal Jaeger Battalion is returning from the front to Libau. Jaeger corporal Martti Kari (Kullervo Kalske) falls in love with the Livonian dancer Sabina (Tuulikki Paananen) on a train journey, who has also caught the eye of Baron Rolf Lichtenstein (Erkki Uotila). Spies' plots and war cast shadows over the relationship between a beautiful dancer and a handsome jaeger.
- DirectorNyrki TapiovaaraStarsTuulikki PaananenIlmari MäntySanteri KariloA thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland.
- 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.
- DirectorNyrki TapiovaaraStarsAnnie MörkSointu KouvoEino Jurkka
- DirectorYrjö NortaStarsAnsa IkonenTauno PaloAku KorhonenTaxi driver Tanu Paalu and tourist guide Ansa Koskeli fall in love. Both are unemployed, but the success of a song by Tanu and Ansa leads to them being hired. Their love becomes contentious when a tune in the song causes a disagreement.
- 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.
- DirectorT.J. SärkkäStarsAnsa IkonenTauno PaloRegina LinnanheimoHunted by the authorities after shooting a Russian prince in a duel in St. Petersburg, a Finnish baron flees to his homeland and disguises as a drifter to avoid getting caught.
- DirectorHannu LeminenStarsHelena KaraTauno PaloAku KorhonenThe uncredited adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel (1922), made five years before Max Ophüls' more widely recognized "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948).
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsTauno MajuriTapio NurkkaAnnie MörkA young woman leaving the city for the countryside encounters the concept of voluntary work - new to her. She eventually does good, and charms the employer at the same time.
- DirectorIlmari UnhoStarsEmma VäänänenJoel RinneEine Laine
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsMarie-Louise FockTure AraKunto KarapääA girl who moves to the city after her fiancé lacks the courage to face his father ,who is against their relationship. In the city the girls winds up being abused by men, giving birth to a child and supporting herself on prostitution.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsRegina LinnanheimoEino KatajavuoriToini VartiainenA love triangle of two sisters, both passionately desiring the same man.
- DirectorIlmari UnhoStarsRauli TuomiMatti KiviAnni AittoThe life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsEmma VäänänenTauno PaloKirsti HurmeYoung Loviisa and a group of hard-working women run the Niskavuori farm, while the men is busy chasing girls or future brides.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsEila PehkonenMartti KatajistoEmma VäänänenA visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover... New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
- DirectorHannu LeminenStarsHelena KaraRauli TuomiErkki Viljos
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsAarne LaineMirjam NoveroAnnika Sipilä
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsTarmo ManniEmma VäänänenSalli KarunaA handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then take their money.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsHannes HäyrinenRitva ArveloKullervo KalskeEager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.
- 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.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsRauni LuomaKaarlo HalttunenMirjam Novero
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsGunvor SandkvistMatti OravistoToivo MäkeläA Bergmanesque triangle drama. After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
- DirectorErik BlombergStarsRakel LaaksoSasu HaapanenKaisu LeppänenBased on short stories by early-20th-century feminist writer Maria Jotuni, the film is a series of lively dialogue scenes between men and women, young and old, living in a small Finnish town. Most episodes evolve into humorous battles between the sexes. The film's central character is a young maid played by Maija Karhi.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsKosti KlemeläHeikki SavolainenReino TolvanenThe tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
- DirectorVille SalminenStarsSanteri KariloLinda LampinenAino-Maija TikkanenWhen the Winter War of 1939 begins but an evacuation order never arrives in Karelia, a local family must assemble the townspeople to flee their homes from the impending destruction.
- DirectorTeuvo TulioStarsKirsti HurmeLauri KorpelaNestori LampiInnocent girl gets lead astray by Lothario, not only into adultery, because he's already married, but devilish drink, too. Lothario's good friend, the fine upstanding seaman takes a fancy to make her his wife, but he's not enough to save her. On the way, her daughter becomes a victim of her wayward drunken ways. Romance and warnings on the perils downfall of drink, delivered in melodramatic, 'eye popping' (by lead actress) style.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsToivo MäkeläEmma VäänänenRauni LuomaViktor Sundvall is a guard of a little channel in the Finnish countryside. He is an unsuccessful playwright who is frustrated with his marriage and his life and therefore he has became an alcoholic. One Saturday-morning in august he is waiting for a visit of an old family-friend Maija Länsilehto with whom he has had a relationship in his youth. But Sundvall does not know that the Saturday will be the last day of his life.
- DirectorJack WitikkaStarsKaarlo HalttunenTea IstaTauno PaloOffice clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two children. A two-week drinking spree gets him fired, and a new job is not easy to find because of his reputation. He goes to a rehab centre in the countryside for a couple of weeks, but with no permanent result. Meanwhile, his wife has to get a job and is employed by her old sweetheart, now a recently divorced successful businessman.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneElina PohjanpääMatti RaninA closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
- DirectorJack WitikkaStarsLeif AaltonenAapeliKaarlo HalttunenIn a small Finnish town in the 1920s, 12-year-old Pietari Jormalainen lives in a lively courtyard surrounded by wooden houses. While God sees everything and everyone - and takes care of his Mother up in heaven - Pietari too has a lot of interesting and eccentric people to observe. The newest addition to the bustling neighbourhood is Father's new wife Karoliina who is determined to put all things in order.
- DirectorAarne TarkasStarsRisto MäkeläRauha RentolaRose-Marie PrechtA government official decides to steal a $25-million markka payroll (=$78,000 USD) and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
- DirectorMaunu KurkvaaraStarsSointu AngervoNils BrandtKyllikki ForssellA young colleague of a successful architect tries to find a reason for the architect's unexpected suicide.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsPentti TarkiainenVesa-Matti LoiriUti SaurioA group of mischievous Finnish boys experience the ups and downs of life during World War 2.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsMartti KoskiTuula ElomaaCarita GrenA summer romance remembered.
- DirectorMaunu KurkvaaraStarsAnneli SauliYrjö TähteläRitva VepsäA journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsJaakko PakkasvirtaAnneli SauliEija PokkinenMagazine editor Jussi and his girlfriend Leena, an airline stewardess, share an apartment with Jussi's sister Eeva. During a fashion shoot Jussi meets Telle, a professional model who has just returned to Helsinki after years in Paris. Looking for a place to stay, Telle gets Eeva's room while Eeva goes to Stockholm for a few days. Jussi and Telle start an affair while still working on fashion features for the magazine.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsHarriet AnderssonMatti OravistoClaude TitreThe fashion director Anne Englund has to choose between two men - the Finnish architect Toivo, or the French businessman Jacques.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsEero MelasniemiKristiina HalkolaPekka AutiovuoriTwo student couples go camping in the Finnish countryside; partner swapping and interpersonal dynamics - with a touch of their philosophy - between them all arise.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsElina SaloPaul OsipowTitta KarakorpiLeftist welder and right wing clerk get married. Soon enough they find themselves covered with financial and emotional problems.
- DirectorJukka VirtanenStarsSpede PasanenSimo SalminenEsko SalminenLosing faith in their original idea for a movie to celebrate Finland's 50 years of independence, a film crew decides to hire a typical Finnish taxpayer to tell them what to shoot. The result becomes a comedic cavalcade of Finnish promotional clichés - Lapland, sauna, moose hunting, beautiful blond women etc. - as presented by a slick entourage following on the heels of William Nurmi, a Finnish-American hair tonic millionaire on a visit to his ancestors' homeland. Add some half-baked criminal hanky-panky, and towards the end even one of the main characters has to confess to the camera that he's lost track of this movie's plot about fifteen minutes ago.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsEija PokkinenRisto AaltonenMatti SiitonenHelinä is tired of her monotonous life revolving around her young children, while her husband is away on business. At the hair salon she meets other frustrated housewives. Together the find an attractive solution to the problem.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsMaarita MäkeläEero MelasniemiKurt IngvallClassic student beds teacher tale, while latter fends off advances of (elder) work colleague.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsKristiina HalkolaLiisamaija LaaksonenJörn DonnerJuha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family. This side of Juha is well known to his colleagues in the company's advertising department. On one of his business trips, Juha picks up a good-looking hitch-hiker Maria, resulting in some of the most daring sex scenes seen in Finnish cinema up to that time.
- DirectorEdvin LaineStarsAarno SulkanenTitta KarakorpiRisto TauloTäällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsTitta KarakorpiHannu OravistoVeikko HonkanenYoung photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
- 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.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEeva-Maija HaukinenErkki PajalaHeikki HämäläinenA physiotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEero RinneTuula NymanTauno HautaniemiMan leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaSpede PasanenUuno Turhapuro is a man who can convince anyone of anything by simply talking them into submission. Uuno learns to play the violin and becomes famous, but discovers that fame is both a gift and a curse.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsMaritta ViitamäkiPauli JauhojärviAimo SaukkoA young woman has an intense affair with a womanizing reindeer herdsman.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsOlavi AhonenLauri ArajuuriOssi AronenRhapsodic story from a small Finnish town in the 1920s. The wounds of the civil war in 1918 are not yet fully healed. The current ban legislation on alcohol triggers a diligently moon-shining.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsAntti LitjaKauko HelovirtaMarkku HuhtamoYoung advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life.
- DirectorTapio SuominenStarsEsa NiemeläTony HolmströmKati OutinenIn the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsAsko SarkolaRea MauranenKari FranckThe life of early-20th-century author, journalist, and revolutionary Algot Untola (also known as Maiju Lassila, Irmari Rantamala, and several more pseudonyms), one of the most enigmatic figures in Finnish literature. Different time levels are mixed in the film to give it an equally enigmatic structure. Untola lives periods of his life in the Finnish countryside as a teacher, then in St. Petersburg as a businessman; he also becomes a Socialist, then dies during the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
- DirectorJaakko PakkasvirtaStarsEsko SalminenIrina MilanTom WentzelFollows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsHeikki PaavilainenTimo TorikkaTero NivaJuuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil-drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm, but he wants to break free from his father, who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm, but family quarrels over the estate make him quit his agricultural studies, and he and drifter Late take jobs in a steel mill in southern Finland.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsMatti PellonpääPirkko HämäläinenJuuso HirvikangasA criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
- DirectorTimo LinnasaloStarsKristiina ElsteläMarkku HuhtamoRagni GrönblomEccentric small town librarian Helinä struggles between everyday life and her love for the theatre, directing amateurs for a play by the famous Finnish writer Aleksis Kivi. She still carries the torch for her teenage sweetheart Leo, now a married chimney sweeper but still an aspiring playwright, despite his wife's opinions. Helinä thinks Leo is Aleksis Kivi, and so does Leo himself. Discouraged by the society, they end up in a mental institution but finally manage to stage an outdoor premiere of the play.
- DirectorMarkku LehmuskallioStarsEsko HukkanenNiilo HyttinenKaija KiiskiJoel, a deaf painter in a small village in Lapland, has trouble fitting in with the community of people around him. He starts to commune with nature and speaks nonverbally with a spirit.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenMartti SyrjäLeena HarjupatanaGiancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.
- 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.
- DirectorPekka ParikkaStarsTaneli MäkeläVesa VierikkoTimo TorikkaIn 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsHannu KiviojaEsko SalminenLeea KlemolaEsa 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.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsKatariina KaituePertti KoivulaAnja PohjolaIn the 1960s, a family's story is seen from the perspective of a young boy leaving for school.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsMartti SuosaloHenrika AnderssonMatti VarjoPekka returns to his native village to attend a wedding. The village has lost its younger generations, and the movie tells the story of the last wedding in the village.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenKari VäänänenElina SaloThe recession hits a couple in Helsinki.
- DirectorJarmo LampelaStarsJoonas BraggeArttu KapulainenPihla PenttinenTwo teenagers from Helsinki are sent on a mission by their drug dealer.
- DirectorAuli MantilaStarsLeea KlemolaElina HurmeRea MauranenEevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
- DirectorClaes OlssonStarsMarika KrookÅsa KarlinNicke LignellIn the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbours, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
- DirectorKaisa RastimoStarsVille VirtanenPäivi AkonpeltoHenriikka SaloIn the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
- DirectorRaimo O. NiemiVille SuhonenStarsKonsta HietanenRisto TuorilaJarmo MäkinenTwelve-year-old Tommy reluctantly moves with his father from the big city to a small Lapp village - the childhood home of his mother, who has recently died. The village is close to the northernmost wildlife reserve in the world, where Tommy's father will be working on a project to release a captive lynx into the wild. The boy gradually falls under the spell of his new surroundings, and discovers that his mother was involved in protecting the local lynx, and, when his father's project fails, and the lynx is about to be sold, he decides to set it free himself. A dramatic series of events ensues, and Tommy, through his brave actions, regains the trust and respect of his family and the village.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannJuha VeijonenTeemu LehtiläHäjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsPeter FranzénIrina BjörklundKari HeiskanenSet during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.
- DirectorMatti IjäsStarsMartti SuosaloWalter GröhnMikko VanhalaTwo 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsMikko NousiainenLaura MalmivaaraPetteri SummanenFor Ari, nothing feels like anything. He doesn't do relationships, doesn't do attachments. There's only sex. That is until he meets Tiina. Together with Tiina and her closest circle of friends, this could be their last summer of freedom.
- DirectorAnastasia LapsuiMarkku LehmuskallioStarsAnatoli HudiIgor HudiTajuda HudiSeven Songs of the Tundra takes place amidst the infinite white tundra, where a small religious cult sacrifices a reindeer. A ceremonial song accompanies the sacrifice, triggering a narrative divided into seven chapters, which re-enacts a pivotal point in the Nenets natives' history. Deprived of their independence and prosperity, the nomadic reindeer breeders were ostracized from their homeland and asked to abandon not only their language and traditions but also their children that were forced to enroll in boarding schools.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsMartti SuosaloIlkka KoivulaVexi SalmiThe life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
- DirectorJarmo LampelaStarsSanna HietalaAntti IkkalaJyri OjansivuEpisodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenAnnikki TähtiM arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
- DirectorJohanna VuoksenmaaStarsTiina LymiPetteri SummanenKari-Pekka ToivonenKatri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPeter FranzénTaisto ReimaluotoAhti KuoppalaBright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsJasper PääkkönenMikko LeppilampiPamela TolaOne bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsTopi MajaniemiMarjaana MaijalaMaria LundqvistDuring World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "Mother of Mine" tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsJanne HyytiäinenMaria JärvenhelmiMaria HeiskanenIn Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.