Aki Kaurismäki
The visionary filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, a master of world cinema, has written, directed and produced films since the early 1980s. His films have received numerous awards, most notably the Grand Prix at Festival de Cannes in 2002 for The Man Without a Past and Best Director at Berlinale in 2017 for The Other Side of Hope.
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Jenni Domingo
jenni.domingo@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3032
Sputnik
sputnik@sputnik.fi
tel. +358 50 573 5692
The Match Factory
info@matchfactory.de
tel. +49 221 539 709-0
The Man without a Past
Films
Available in 35 mm & dcp
subtitled in Swedish, English, German, Spanish and French
Crime and Punishment (1983)
Calamari Union (1985)
Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Ariel (1988)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
La Vie de Bohème (1992)
Total Balalaika Show (1994)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
Drifting Clouds (1996)
Juha (1999)
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Le Havre (2011)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Short films
Rock’y VI (1986, 8 min)
Thru the Wire (1987, 6 min)
Rich Little Bitch (1987, 6 min)
Those Were the Days (1991, 5 min)
These Boots (1992, 5 min)
Always Be a Human (1996, 4 min)
Dogs Have No Hell (2002, 10 min) / only 35 mm or DVD available
Bico (2004, 5 min)
The Foundry (2006, 3 min)
Bluesia Pitkämäen asemalla (2012, 17 min)
Pirjo Honkasalo
Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly acclaimed director, cinematographer and screenwriter who has won countless awards for her work. Her film Flame Top (1980, directed together with Pekka Lehto), was in the Official Competition in Cannes Film Festival. Since the 1990s, she has gained international recognition also for her documentary films.
The first film of hers that was shown at IDFA, Atman (1997), won the Joris Ivens Award, and the award-winning film The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004) has already become a classic. She did not, however, abandon fictional filmmaking: Concrete Night (2013) had its world premiere in the Masters programme of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Jenni Domingo / features
jenni.domingo@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3032
Anni Asikainen / documentaries
anni.asikainen@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3049
Concrete Night
Films
Available in digital form:
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993, 80 min, documentary)
Atman (1997, 76 min, documentary)
Fire Eater (1998, 99 min)
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004, 106 min, documentary)
Ito (2009, 111 min, documentary)
Concrete Night (2013, 96 min)
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Eija-Liisa Ahtila has exhibited at numerous museums, biennales and film festivals, including Tate Modern, MoMA, Documenta, Berlinale, and Sundance. In 2011, she was appointed to the main jury of the Venice Film Festival, and in 2013, she was the Chair of the jury in FIDMarseille.
Ahtila experiments with narrative storytelling in her films and cinematic installations. In her earlier works she has dealt with the unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal relationships, dealing e.g. with teenage sexuality, family relations, mental disintegration and death. Her later works deal with profound and basic artistic questions where she investigates the processes of perception and attribution of meaning, at times in the light of a larger cultural and existential thematic like colonialism, faith and posthumanism.
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Otto Suuronen
otto.suuronen@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3019
Crystal Eye
mail@crystaleye.fi
tel. +358 9 694 2308
Love Is a Treasure
Films
Available in digital form:
Me/We, Okay, Gray (1993, 3 X 90 seconds)
If 6 Was 9 (1995/1996, 10 min)
Today (1996, 10 min)
Consolation Service (1999, 23 min)
Love Is A Treasure (2002, 55 min)
Where Is Where (2008, 56 min)
The Hour of Prayer (2009, 16 min)
Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui
Markku Lehmuskallio started directing films in 1973. His collaboration with the Nenets filmmaker Anastasia Lapsui has lasted for almost two decades comprising 18 films to date. The couple’s films portray traditional life and indigenous people in the Arctic hemisphere and have earned them recognition and awards worldwide.
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Jenni Domingo
jenni.domingo@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3032
A Bride of the Seventh Heaven
Films
Available in digital form:
Raven’s Dance (1980, 79 min)
Skierri: Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982, 118 min)
The Blue Mammy (1985)
Inuksuk (1988)
In the Shape of a Reindeer Across the Canopy of Heaven (1993)
Lost Paradise (1994)
A Farewell Chronicle (1995)
The Sacrifice – A Film about a Forest (1998)
Seven Songs from the Tundra (2000, 90 min)
A Bride of the Seventh Heaven (2004, 84 min)
Travelling (2007)
Anerca, Breath of Life (2020, 86 min)
Ilppo Pohjola
Ilppo Pohjola is a versatile artist whose films, videos and multimedia installations have been awarded and distributed internationally.
Pohjola works with the vocabulary of film, examining its structural and social elements in order to create a body of work that pushes the limits of the medium’s physical possibilities. He works between the narrative tropes of Hollywood and the deconstructive methodologies of independent film. Given his interest in the formal elements of filmmaking, the content of Pohjola’s works are surprisingly physical and sensual, even if assaultive.
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Otto Suuronen
otto.suuronen@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3019
Crystal Eye
mail@crystaleye.fi
tel. +358 9 694 2308
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Films
Available in digital form:
Tom of Finland – Daddy and the Muscle Academy (1991, 55 min)
P(l)ain Truth (1993, 15 min)
Asphalto – An Aria For 13 Cars, Girls & Gas Stations (1998, 45 min)
Routemaster – Theatre of the Motor (1999, 3 X 17 min)
Mika Kaurismäki
Mika Kaurismäki’s first film The Liar (1980) was an overnight sensation. Since then, he has made a host of feature films and documentaries internationally. His older films are now available for retrospectives in digital format, including Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987), Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991) and Mama Africa (2010).
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Jenni Domingo
jenni.domingo@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3032
Marianna Films
marianna.films@gmx.net
tel. +358 50 346 2277
The Girl King
Films
Available in digital form / subtitled in English:
The Liar (1981, 53 min)
The Worthless (1982, 105 min)
Jackpot 2 (1982, 35 min)
The Clan (1984, 120 min)
Rosso (1985, 76 min)
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987, 105 min)
Cha Cha Cha (1989, 91 min)
Zombie And The Ghost Train (1991, 90 min)
Tigrero – A Film That Was Never Made (1994, 75 min)
Brasilerinho (2005, 105 min)
Three Wise Men (2008, 105 min)
Mama Africa (2010, 105 min)
Homecoming (2015, 105 min)
The Girl King (2015, 108 min)
Master Cheng (2019, 114 min)
Long Good Thursday (2024, 97 min)
The Snow Queen by Päivi Hartzell
Päivi Hartzell is an esteemed filmmaker known for her beloved children’s films. The Snow Queen (1986, 93 min) is a modern take on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale, with a dream-like cinematography by Henrik Paersch.
Contact:
Finnish Film Foundation
Jenni Domingo
jenni.domingo@ses.fi
tel. +358 9 6220 3032
