Cast: Eero Melasniemi

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Eero Melasniemi · Kristiina Halkola · Pekka Autiovuori · Kirsti Wallasvaara

Synopsis This depiction of four urban youths and their excursion to the countryside was among the most popular films of the 1960s in Finland. It tackles a theme that is reminiscent of the German "Menschen am Sonntag" of 1929. It showcases...

Direction Erkko Kivikoski

Cast Maarita Mäkelä · Eero Melasniemi · Kurt Ingvall · Urpo Poikolainen

Synopsis Marja is a 24-year-old Finnish teacher at a grammar school. One morning, while on their way to work, she and a colleague come across Antti, a student who is drunk as a skunk. Antti is expelled from the school for...

Direction Maunu Kurkvaara

Cast Eeva Eloranta · Pehr-Olof Sirén · Vappu Jurkka · Eero Melasniemi

Synopsis Eeva meets up with a friend to tell about her summer and a discovery she made about her mother, Vappu and Vappu’s relationship with their summer cottage neighbor, reporter Sandell.

Direction Jaakko Pakkasvirta

Cast Titta Karakorpi · Hannu Oravisto · Veikko Honkanen · Petra Frey

Synopsis Young 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...

Direction Peter von Bagh

Cast Markku Hannula · Matti Ijäs · Kalervo Lehtonen · Jorma Niskanen

Synopsis Portrait of a genius as a troubled human being trying his best to find a way through life. A documentary about a too- little- known master of world cinema; an epic sketch of the typical 20th century person's struggles and...

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Eero Melasniemi · Kirsti Wallasvaara · Pekka Autiovuori · Mirjami Manninen

Synopsis Ville Herman, a small town librarian falls in love with janitors daughter Liisa. Ville has already rumoured to have some mental problems and now their young love is shadowed by villagers nasty and false rumours. Desperate Ville starts to hear...

Direction Hamy Ramezan

Cast Niilo Airas · Toni Airas · Lumi Barrois · Laura Birn

Synopsis A story of an Iranian refugee family in Finland waiting for the decision of whether or not they'll be granted an official asylum status.