Cast: Markku Peltola

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Onnismaa · Kari Väänänen · Elina Salo · Kati Outinen

Synopsis Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a head waitress is closed. Too proud to receive money from the social welfare system, they strive to find new jobs. But they are...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Markku Peltola · Kati Outinen · Juhani Niemelä · Kaija Pakarinen

Synopsis The Man Without a Past (2002) follows an unnamed man who arrives in Helsinki and is brutally attacked, leaving him with complete amnesia. Struggling to rebuild his identity, he befriends a group of homeless people and finds shelter in a...

Direction Naoko Ogigami

Cast Satomi Kobayashi · Hairi Katagiri · Masako Motai · Jarkko Niemi

Synopsis Sachie, from Japan, opens the "Kamome Diner" in Helsinki, Finland. The specialty menu is Onigiri rice ball or o-musubi. However, the only customer day after day is a geeky Japan enthusiast, Tommi, a Finnish boy obsessed with the Gatchaman cartoon....

Direction Wim Wenders · Víctor Erice · Werner Herzog · Chen Kaige

Cast Chloë Sevigny · Amber Tamblyn · Ana Sofía Liaño · Pelayo Suárez

Synopsis Unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: Time. Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their vision. With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Sakari Kuosmanen · Kati Outinen · André Wilms · Markku Peltola

Synopsis A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Direction Antti-Jussi Annila

Cast Tommi Eronen · Markku Peltola · Zhang Jingchu · Krista Kosonen

Synopsis The ancient past. A legendary Finnish smith, desperate for the love of a woman, crafts the Sampo, a mystical engine believed to be the source of all happiness. It draws the woman, yes, but it draws more than that, notably...

Direction Mikael Wahlforss

Cast Paavo Koskinen · Pekka Saaristo · Markku Peltola · Juhani Lähteenmäki

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Markku Peltola · Kati Outinen · Marko Haavisto

Direction Pekka Lehto

Cast Janne Reinikainen · Maria Järvenhelmi · Antti Raivio · Markku Peltola

Direction Jukka-Pekka Siili

Cast Jussi Nikkilä · Reino Nordin · Jarkko Niemi · Jenni Banerjee

Synopsis Everything centers on a group of Finnish teenagers who start making videos including orgies. Their videos are becoming more and more extreme until they have tragic consequences.

Direction Aleksi Mäkelä

Cast Juha Veijonen · Laura Malmivaara · Jari Halonen · Markku Peltola

Synopsis The title character Vares is a finnish private detective who sets out to help a woman named Eeva in her dangerous pursuit for Russian mobs money. Vares himself is a good guy, mostly hanging in his favourite pub with his...

Direction Aleksi Mäkelä

Cast Juha Veijonen · Hannu-Pekka Björkman · Jussi Lampi · Johanna Kokko

Synopsis The 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...

Direction Veikko Aaltonen

Cast Hannu Kivioja · Esko Salminen · Leea Klemola · Markku Peltola

Synopsis Esa 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....

Direction René Vilbre

Cast Märt Avandi · Nikolai Bentsler · Rafael Jenokjan · Marilyn Jurman