Kati Outinen
Anna Katriina Outinen (born August 17, 1961) is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films. Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never... Read full bio →
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The Hole in the Ground
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris.
Toivon tuolla puolen
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
True Crimes
A hard-boiled detective becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner-workings of an unsolved murder.
Om våld
Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, this documentary is accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Klauni
Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years.
Vuosaari
Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
Le Havre
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner with an ailing wife crosses paths with a young African refugee pursued by the police for deportation.
Havukka-ahon ajattelija
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.
Sauna
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men.
Laitakaupungin valot
In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
Avida
Un sourd-muet et deux drogués à la kétamine ratent l'enlèvement du chien d'une milliardaire plantureuse. Elle en profite pour les forcer à réaliser ses dernières volontés.
Playa del futuro
Den Traum vom Lebensabend im sonnigen Spanien haben sich inzwischen immer mehr Deutsche erfüllt. Die iberische Halbinsel wird bei Aussteigern immer beliebter.
Populärmusik från Vittula
Populärmusik från Vittula is the filmed version of a best-selling book by the same name from author Mikael Niemi. Full of the comic life, slapstick humor, a friendship between to boys, and a look at life on the northern boarder of Sweden.
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Juha
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Zugvögel - ... einmal nach Inari
Peter Lichtefelde makes a hit with his debut film Zugvögel. The film about a Finnish traveler was originally planned for the TV but would become a success in theaters.
Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
Hamlet liikemaailmassa
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Varjoja paratiisissa
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.