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- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBjörkCatherine DeneuveDavid MorseAn Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsVal KilmerLL Cool JChristian SlaterA group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.
- 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.
- DirectorPeter FlinthStarsJoakim NätterqvistSofia HelinStellan SkarsgårdArn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
- DirectorFedor BondarchukStarsArtur SmolyaninovAleksey ChadovKonstantin KryukovA group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsThure LindhardtMads MikkelsenStine StengadeA drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.
- DirectorPeter FlinthStarsJoakim NätterqvistSofia HelinStellan SkarsgårdThe Knight Arn is sent on a last mission against Saladin. He has to win this battle, before he can go home to Sweden, and finally marry his Cecilia and start a family. But the peace back home is threatened by the Danes.
- DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsVille VirtanenTommi EronenViktor KlimenkoAs a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
- 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.
- DirectorPete RiskiStarsWilliam HopeLeon HerbertRonald PickupA man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
- 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.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMaria HeiskanenMikael PersbrandtJesper ChristensenIn a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
- DirectorReza BagherStarsMax EnderforsAndreas af EnehielmJarmo MäkinenTwo boys grow up together in the town of Pajala during the 1960s. United by rock'n'roll music.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsPeter FranzénNiko SaarelaLauri NurkseFour well-mannered but poorly grown brothers drift into a life of crime when their schizophrenic father is sent to the mental hospital.
- DirectorTeresa FabikStarsAmanda RenbergBjörn KjellmanEllen FjæstadA teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
- 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.
- DirectorJuha WuolijokiStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanOtto GustavssonJonas RinneThe touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJasper PääkkönenElina HietalaJuha VeijonenA ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.
- DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsTommi EronenMarkku PeltolaJingchu ZhangThousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern Finland. Jade Warrior is set in ancient China early iron age and present day Finland. The past is feeding the story in present day, slowly revealing our warrior his real origin, his superior skills and his destiny. Jade Warrior - the first Finnish Kung Fu film - combines Finnish and Chinese mythologies into one film. Jade Warrior is an homage to Kung Fu genre strongly spiced with a truly original approach to Finnish national epic Kalevala. Like Kalevala Jade Warrior is a pure melodrama. A story of Kalevala's greatest hero.
- 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.
- DirectorAnders NilssonStarsJakob EklundIrina BjörklundNicholas FarrellJohan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJuha VeijonenLaura MalmivaaraJari HalonenOn the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
- DirectorLiv UllmannStarsLena EndreErland JosephsonKrister HenrikssonAn imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.
- DirectorMichael HegnerKari JuusonenStarsOlli JantunenHannu-Pekka BjörkmanVuokko HovattaA young reindeer who suffers from vertigo learns to overcome his fear, takes flying lessons from a clumsy flying squirrel and heads to the North pole to save a troubled Santa and his fleet of flying reindeer.
- DirectorKaige ChenVíctor EriceWerner HerzogStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenMarko HaavistoThis 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.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannPeter FranzénKari HietalahtiProfessional criminals in Finland from 1966 to 1979.
- 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.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPamela TolaSamuli VauramoJoonas SaartamoA woman dulled with praise, Nelli is well on her way to Med-School thanks to her parents, but dreams of a career as a singer.
- DirectorPerttu LeppäStarsMikko LeppilampiLaura BirnAmanda PilkeWhen their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren't so hopelessly shy...
- 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.
- DirectorPetri KotwicaStarsOuti MäenpääMartti SuosaloRia KatajaUpon discovering that her husband is having an affair, a Helsinki gynecologist attempts to gather more knowledge about her rival and, in the process, becomes hopelessly entangled in the other woman's life.
- DirectorPekka KarjalainenStarsHeikki SilvennoinenTimo KahilainenHeikki VihinenFunny comedy movie, where three guys likes to play poker with their landlord. Soon Pera will find a way how to earn big amount of money. Then he and his two other friends wanna join his plan. Highly really funny comedy, you definently wannna see and laugh.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsNiilo SyväojaTommi KorpelaKristiina HalttuA boy is sent to Saari, an isolated island and home to a home for troubled boys, where he falls in love with the daughter of the school's superintendent.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsKaarina HazardHeikki NousiainenJukka KeinonenWith few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJuha VeijonenHannu-Pekka BjörkmanJussi LampiThe tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsMinna HaapkyläPetteri SummanenLaura MalmivaaraFC Venus is a romantic comedy about men, women and soccer.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsPriit VõigemastIndrek SammulHele KõrveThis movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsTommi KorpelaMaria HeiskanenJani VolanenUnemployed man forgets his dignity to support his family.
- DirectorTapio PiirainenStarsKai LehtinenOiva LohtanderMari RantasilaA hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsMarjut MaristoAmanda PilkeMalla MalmivaaraTwo teen girls from a very restrictive Conservative Laestadian faith community, go alone to Helsinki for the first time.
- DirectorJukka-Pekka SiiliStarsEero MilonoffJussi NikkiläOlavi UusivirtaIn early days Remu Aaltonen was young musician and his band named Hurriganes were unknown. This story is all about the Finnish rock band and how they became famous.
- DirectorKristian LevringStarsMiles AndersonRomane BohringerDavid BradleyWhen a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."
- DirectorLeif LindblomStarsIzabella ScorupcoMikael PersbrandtJakob EklundThe aurora borealis slithers like a dragon through the night skies when this story about religious and sexual dominance begins in the northernmost regions of Sweden above the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorLenka HellstedtStarsIrina BjörklundSamuli EdelmannRoope KaristoA young drifting woman finds love that is not what it first seems.
- DirectorAke LindmanÅke LindmanSakari KirjavainenStarsRauno AhonenMikkomarkus AhtiainenFrank BiermannIn the summer of 1944, the Finnish Forces must defend Finland from the invading Soviet Red Army.
- DirectorJukka-Pekka SiiliStarsJussi NikkiläReino NordinJarkko NiemiTaavi, who never goes anywhere without his video camera, and his young and wealthy friends find themselves on the cusp of adulthood. After throwing a wild party at the mansion left to him by his deceased parents, Taavi shoots video of the partygoers in their various states of undress and drunken sexual congress. What begins as a prank spurs Taavi and his friends Jere, Sami, and Markus to form a club, the only requirement for admission being that each young man must bring a tape of his latest sexual conquest to every club meeting. The risque game quickly degenerates into dangerous compulsion as relationships implode and the boys forsake their girlfriends in favor of prostitutes and "swingers". As currents of coercion and abuse enter the picture, each young man must ultimately confront his own morality in the viewfinder.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsNatalie MinnevikBibi AnderssonMarjaana MaijalaElina is sinking in the quicksand and she is going under and she got the white thing on her hair.
- DirectorHannu TuomainenStarsAntti TarvainenJoonas SaartamoJohanna RönnlöfA cancer patient meets a new friend at the hospital, and together they escape on the adveture of their lives.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsMinna HaapkyläAnna-Leena HärkönenLaura MalmivaaraThis movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
- DirectorÅke LindmanStarsTobias ZilliacusIlkka HeiskanenChristoffer WeissA story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syväri to the Karelian Ishtmus.
- DirectorKjell SundvallStarsShanti RoneyMaria BonnevieStefan SaukA programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His only chance of rescue seems to be the war veteran Haglund who is a leader of a special taskforce.
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsJorma TommilaTommi EronenMaria JärvenhelmiA murderer tries to leave his criminal past in East Helsinki and make a new life for his family
- 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 LouhimiesStarsSamuli VauramoPihla ViitalaEero AhoThere is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.
- DirectorMatti GrönbergStarsMikko KivinenHeikki SilvennoinenTimo KahilainenA farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanElina KnihtiläKati OutinenA sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsMartti SuosaloIlkka KoivulaVexi SalmiThe life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsJanne ReinikainenKaroliina BlackburnPeter FranzénThe life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsTaavi EelmaaRavshana KurkovaTiina TauraiteA mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsPeter StormareRobin LundbergRolf DegerlundAn examination of how the traditions of the Sami villagers in northern Sweden is confronted with modern day society.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsMinna HaapkyläKari-Pekka ToivonenMinttu MustakallioLongtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse: After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
- DirectorRené VilbreStarsRasmus KaljujärvDoris TislarMarilyn JurmanA 17-year-old boy becomes a drug dealer and the decision that draws him into causes turbulent events he can't control.
- DirectorMika KemmoPasi KemmoHeikki PaavilainenStarsHeikki PaavilainenTimo JulkunenTony HalmeA sleazy sex comedy about a blind man who wants to become a life guard, his friend with a tiny willy, and three beautiful models who all meet at the sloppy camping ground run by a homophobic manager (ex WWF wrestler Tony Halme).
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsAllan TuppurainenMaria JärvenhelmiPeter FranzénTroll-like rolleys find a village of goblins of the forest and take it as their own. The oldest of the rolley tribe leaves the community as it has came the time of him to rest and the tribe to choose a new lead. One rolley named Rölli follows the old leader and sees him changing into a turkey by a weird huge scale on top of a hill. New social order of the tribe does not come without conflicts in the community and between the rolleys and the goblins. One brave goblin called Milli tries to make a peace between rolleys and goblins, but rolleys can not be friends with kind creatures. Yet Milli and Rölli become partners in trying to return the balance between the good and the bad in the forest.
- DirectorGunnar B. GudmundssonStarsRagnhildur Steinunn JónsdóttirSnorri EngilbertssonDavíð Þór JónssonWhen Hildur - a beautiful high society girl and a regular guest in the national celebrity press - finds out that her boyfriend Jolli is about to go into jail, she realizes she has to learn to stand on her own two feet. Hildur, possessing no skills or any practical experience, tries to find work but without success. She's about to give up when by pure coincidence she lands a job selling role playing books and accessories at the local fantasy-shop Astropia. Gradually unlikely friendships are formed and Hildur enters the fantasy world of role playing where she struts around in a skimpy outfit slaying Orcs and Goblins and the world of adventure starts blending into her real life. Her old boyfriend Jolli, determined to get Hildur and his old lifestyle back, breaks out of jail and kidnaps Hildur. Hildur's ragtag group of friends are not about to let her go without a fight.
- DirectorRóbert I. DouglasStarsBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonHelgi BjörnssonArnmundur Ernst BjörnssonThe star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism.
- DirectorEre KokkonenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriMarjatta RaitaTapio HämäläinenUuno Turhapuro takes part in a reality TV show where he tells viewers his life story.
- DirectorLauri TörhönenStarsMartin BahneMinna HaapkyläTommi Korpela"Raja 1918", also known as "The Border", is a Finnish war drama film directed by Lauri Törhönen set in the immediate aftermath of the Finnish Civil War of 1918. It is spring of 1918. A young scientist and officer, captain von Munck (Martin Bahne), is sent to the village of Rajajoki to close the border between the newly independent Finland and Russia under Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorFatih AkinBarbara AlbertSharunas BartasStarsAlan ReesYohanna TroellAgneta Ulfsäter-TroellAn anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsEero AhoTiina LymiElla LymiMatti Virtanen is trying to get his family back by buying a house.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsMaria BonnevieGunilla RöörAntti ReiniAs the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later, flashbacks reveal her disturbing youth and young adulthood. From the wrong side of the tracks, Lea grows up in a small house on the edge of the forest. When her father dies, her fragile mother Madelene takes up with the jealous alcoholic Ole. Unable to prevent Madelene from being beaten, Lea winds up as a substance abuser.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsLo KauppiEllen JelinekAnn-Sofie NurmiThe film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affecting 63,000 people between 1934 and 1976.
- DirectorKari VäänänenStarsMartti SuosaloJanne HyytiäinenMatti OnnismaaA self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen
- 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.
- DirectorIlkka VanneStarsLaura BirnKaroliina VanneHanna LekanderThe film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJuha VeijonenOuti MäenpääKärt TomingasJussi, a career criminal, gets doublecrossed by his girlfriend after robbing a jewelry store. Twelve years later he's married with 2 children and working as a dentist. On his family vacation to Spain his past comes to haunt him as he runs in with the woman who betrayed him all those years ago.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsSamuli EdelmannMatleena KuusniemiLaura MalmivaaraA story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku.
- DirectorLauri NurkseStarsSaija LentonenKari-Pekka ToivonenKristiina ElsteläEmma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.
- DirectorMichael HjorthStarsSuzanne ReuterLoa FalkmanPeter AnderssonTwo Brothers arguing about the money left by their parents
- DirectorOlli SaarelaStarsKrista KosonenKari HeiskanenJohanna af SchulténAn unconventional love story of a young and talented student, Sari, suffering from epilepsy, and a middle-aged lecturer Mikko, who is immersed in his own world in the 18th century poetry.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPeter FranzénSanna-Kaisa PaloSamuli VauramoWhen her husband dies, Martta has to look after her three outlandish sons single-handedly, whilst she tries to journey with them in their family-home caravan to the Finnish city of Lieksa. The return of Laszlo to the family threatens to usurp Martta's authority.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsJanne VirtanenSusanna MikkonenAada HämesIn a dark and cold Helsinki, an unlucky taxi driver Veli-Matti struggles to maintain relationships with his children and estranged wife. Sometimes, losing everything is just a beginning.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsIlkka KoivulaVera KiiskinenRisto TuorilaA new film-adaptation of Väinö Linna's famous book here Beneath the North Star.
- DirectorIlkka VanneStarsVille HaapasaloIrina BjörklundPietro SteinerIn order to conduct a study on the treatment of foreigners in Finland, a man borrows the identity of his immigrant friend.
- DirectorTimo KoivusaloStarsMartti SuosaloHeikki NousiainenMiina TurunenThe life story of Jean Sibelius, a Finnish composer.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsOlavi UusivirtaHeikki SilvennoinenPeter FranzénTwo opposing racing teams arrange a race to settle their disagreements.
- DirectorSimo HalinenStarsLauri NurkseTommi MujunenElena LeeveC (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a charming and resolute student girl Oona (Elena Leeve) is coming to work in same courier company.Eetu falls in love to Oona. K is annoyed about this, because Oona interferes with their training.
- DirectorPeter LindholmStarsPirkka-Pekka PeteliusPaavo KerosuoPekka StrangEpic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
- DirectorArto LehkamoStarsJoonas NordmanSaija LentonenSari HavasComing of age story of the 13-year old boy who falls in love with an older girl who wants to become a model.
- DirectorJanne KuusiStarsPamela TolaMikko LeppilampiOuti MäenpääA soap opera screenwriter writes a romance for herself and the star of the show.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsIlmari JärvenpääOnni TommilaLauri TilkanenIn 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
- DirectorJörgen BergmarkStarsStina EkbladRolf LassgårdClaes LjungmarkA quartet of sterling performances from some of Sweden's top actors (including the wonderful Pernilla August) anchors Jorgen Bergmark's tragicomedy about a marriage counseling couple who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend's wife. A smart, funny film made for adults.
- DirectorDaniel Lind LagerlöfStarsSven WollterPeter AnderssonEva RexedCarambole is the story of a doctor, in love and happy, who one rainy night accidentally hits a young boy with his car and drives away when he sees the boy is dead. Some days later he receives a letter telling him that someone knows what he did, and want money for his silence. And after that it just gets messier for the good doctor...
- DirectorKaisa RastimoStarsKatriina TaviTilda KiianlehtoMinna SuuronenThe quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.
- DirectorJani VolanenStarsVesa-Matti LoiriJari NissinenTommi KorpelaRumble is a story of four aged rockabillies' journey in 2000's Finnish summer driving red Cadillac while listening 50's rock and roll. They're seeking to find pizza on the road while drinking heavily.
- DirectorLiisa HelminenStarsKari KetonenRoni HaarakangasInka NuorgamWanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.
- DirectorTommi LepolaTero MolinStarsAsko SahlmanMarkku PartanenJuha-Pekka MikkolaFire, water, wind, earth and emptiness... Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Booke of Fate. Far away from here there was a mythical world -free of suffering and injustice. But it wasn't enough. People wanted to play God... They created a pen to control the Booke of Fate. Mightier than a sword, it could write off deeds -and bring back the dead. But the book gave power, power caused fear -and fear brought suffering. And the suffering caused wars. Darkness fell on earth, making demands on the pen and the book. But the book was gone. It was thought to be lost forever -but hundreds of years later it reappeared on a small planet called Earth. The prophecy says: Only the chosen will get a second chance from the book. The destiny of the chosen one is to guide the book back. But his journey will be long, filled with errors and grief. This is his story.
- DirectorJ.-P. ValkeapääStarsPavel LiskaVitali BobrovJorma TommilaA stranger arrives into a remote farm where a mute boy is living with his mother.