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- Oleg and the War is the children's version of the award winning film 'The Distant Barking of Dogs'. Ten-year-old Oleg lives in warzone Ukraine with his loving Grandmother. He often plays with his younger cousin Yarik and older neighbour Kostya. The children find joy in everyday adventures - constantly laughing, exploring, playing - doing what kids do. They don't realize that their playgrounds are different from what other children have. They play in abandoned soldier warehouses, where mines and bullets scatter the floor. Instead of playing with a toy football, they play with a hardball gun. Oleg and his friends learn that their 'toys' can be dangerous, and their games might have real consequences. This observational film follows a year in the life of Oleg, highlighting how children can still have fun despite frightening circumstances. Even though bombs scare the children, they learn to be brave and strong. By sticking close to Oleg, the film captures how Oleg adjusts to life in a war-zone, becoming resilient and mature beyond his years.
- 8-year old girl Milja lives in North of Finland with her mother. After a long absence the father returns home. The family is full of hope for the new beginning. One day Milja returns home from school and finds her mother bleeding and bruised in the snow outside their home. Immediately Milja knows what's going on, her father has gone back to his old ways again, it's a familiar pattern in their lives, but this this time Milja has had enough.
- Documentary tells about the struggle of the municipality of Kainuu against the changed times.
- Three Afghani girls get an opportunity to travel Europe to follow their dreams of becoming professional skiers.
- If laughter's the best medicine, then the doctor is in! Everyone knows someone with a special laugh--and Gigglebug's is one of the greatest ever. It's his gift, his innate ability and the key to transforming attitudes, which ultimately shakes loose every gummed-up situation he runs across. The stories are set in the oh-so enchanted Greengown Forest, where Gigglebug meets his young animal friends, all dealing with growing up. Each of them has a trademark set of hang-ups and talents, and it's Gigglebug's unique attitude and contagious laughter that breaks through those inhibitions, unlocks the talents and their adventures together! No moment so dull or situation too gloomy that Gigglebug can't make it amazing. Look, a wet boot! Let's go underwater hiking! In early learning, the ability to try again and not to be discouraged by failure is an important pedagogical aim. Our curricular approach is to show how humour and a positive attitude helps you get un-stuck.
- Fatima is a 9-year-old girl that overhears her mother and father talking about divorce. When Milla, her best friend, finds out about Fatima's fears, she comes up with great ideas. The most important thing is to get Fatima's parents to fall in love again, by any means necessary. Fatima is a film about a friendship that conquers all fears.
- Sorrow Tamers is an art-house-documentary film about individuals, who have decided to face the sorrow as it exists to them. Sorrow always shakes up the life we used to know, and everything is changed. Changed how? - You do not know, unless you fearlessly step into the world of grief and, without fearing the change, step out in due course as a new, transformed version of yourself. Life is learning how to let go before death, the ultimate momentum of letting go. Shot on film, the short episodes of individual stories form a larger story of the finite nature of life and the intrinsic need of human beings to reach out to each other, even when it is not possible.
- The elusive underwater world of the white beluga whales, their enigma behavior, and their unique relationship to Arctic people across time is revealed in this documentary.
- About a boy, with Meänkieli as his mother tongue, takes his first moped trip on the day he turns 15. He is stopped by local policeman, who also speaks Meänkieli. An unpleasant situation arises and the boy becomes abused.
- NOKSU's name means 'be yourself', which is how he and his friends face everyday experiences and have fun learning life's little lessons.
- An educational film about women's sexuality, genitalia and their functions during sexual interaction.
- Follows students and their teachers for one year at a public school in Tokyo to unveil how they interact and shape one another.
- A few days in autumn in the life of Minerva and Mauri, a couple on the verge of divorce. Minerva has long been seeing Klaus while Mauri dates Pia, his colleague at work. The only thing keeping Minerva and Mauri together is his terminally ill father Aatos.
- What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life? A fifty year old middle aged woman occupies a top position in a large company in Espoo, Finland. Disappointed in life, leaving work she embarks on a journey into the end of the night. When the flirtation with another woman fails, she flees hiding inside a war bunker.
- Viktor heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. Once on the islands, he makes friends with a little girl.
- July 1975. Monica Flaherty, daughter of Robert and Francis Flaherty, cinema verity pioneer Ricky Leacock and Sarah Hudson - Ricky's student at MIT - travel to Samoa, to the island of Savai'i. Monica's aim is to create a perfect sound version of the silent feature film Moana (1926), directed by her parents in her childhood paradise.
- Sometimes things happen that can't be explained, such as when the Italian cyclist arrived at the Torne River Valley. He was on his way to the North Cape, but what really happened is still a mystery. Some say it was a miracle.
- International mining company is looking to establish a mine on Viiankiaapa, a swamp area, which is a part of EU's Natura 2000 nature protection network. Miner's daughter Riikka Karppinen has decided to lead the opposition for this project.
- Documentary on Finnish burlesque star and shows, with (doc)maker's associated performance empowerment.
- Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio profile members of a family in northern Russia, then revisit them nine years later.
- Documentary about Mihkku Laiti or Yungmiqu, a young Sámi rap artist, who is pondering his future: whether to continue the traditional family trade of reindeer herding or pursue another career (eg. in music).
- Story about life and death according to Chukchi people who live in Chukchi Peninsula as far in the East as one can go.
- NASA roboticist and Curiosity -rover driver Vandi Verma works on Mars on a daily basis from her desk at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Los Angeles. Her work is entirely relying on images and the technologically advanced use of them. The film creates a philosophical journey into the intriguing world of Mars science. Through the lenses of various experts we learn how NASAs' images are made, used and manipulated for the sake of science, but also public information. Mars is the ideal place for an investigation into our paradoxical relationship to photography. Do images reflect reality or shape it?
- A documentary film about love and loss, exploring the invisible bond between a child and a biological parent. Children in foster care are, in truth, on loan only.
- Three different stories in three different European countries, which are intertwined and almost echo each other. A young hostess afraid of flying, a painter working with a young talented Romani girl and a reporter who is in a state of trauma through experiences from war, keeping him from functioning normally and working.
- Host country Korea will face the world's best hockey nation Canada in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ethnically Korean, but mentally North American hockey coach has four years to prevent national embarrassment.
- Marimekko's philosophy of life emerged from the fabric designs of Maija Isola, reaching architectural heights together with Maija's large scale prints. Today, Maija Isola's fabric designs have conquered the whole world. But who was Maija Isola? What were the values at the centre of this vagabond's life, and what kind of a legacy did she leave us?
- Finnish Riitta, 66 and Kata from Uganda, 63 are closest of friends and together they are running sexual health and gender equality education in Uganda. Riitta has been in Uganda for 27 years. She has already passed the retirement age but returning to Finland feels daunting as her whole life is in Uganda. Suddenly Riitta and Kata find themselves trapped in chain of difficult events caused by anonymous allegation letter, addressed to Ugandan Parliament. Letter is accusing them for organizing workshops that are promoting and recruiting children to homosexuality.
- As long as 15-year old Marianne knows how to punch there is nothing to worry about.
- A visual and delicately poetic story about the relationship between a swimmer and water. A young competitive swimmer meets the world's fastest woman swimmer in her dreams and races her.
- Lulu ends up in the hospital, and sees a girl crying for help. When Lulu awakes, the girl is gone. But from here everything changes in Lulu's life. It's like someone or something is following her.
- DADDY'S GIRL is a tragicomic break-up story between a Turkish father, Cengiz, and his 26-year-old half-Finnish daughter, Melisa.
- Saara and Robert take us on the intense emotional journey of a couple that attempts a redefinition of relationship beyond the usual role chlichés, embedded in the grand scenery of rough Finnish nature.
- A 75-year-old woman dedicates herself to caring for her 100-year-old mother. Their already strained relationship takes a heightened toll when an enigmatic bat takes up residence in the mother's room.
- A story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.
- Palkkasoturi tells the story of a modest man who decides to go to work as a mercenary in the Yugoslav civil war. He doesn't get approval for his decision from his parents or friends of the local bar.
- As Moomintroll gets wasp-stung Moominpappa wants to cheer him up by telling about his own adventurous youth. Pappa tells about how he escapes from an orphanage and about his historic meeting with an inventor called Hodgkins.