Finnish films for everyone.

A coming-of-age documentary about a highly sensitive 24-year-old city dweller who escapes to a hermit’s island, confronting her deepest fears and an enigmatic intergenerational burden, which she works through by experimenting with self-help practices.

Amanda Aaltonen kieltäytyy alistumasta hänelle varattuun köyhän naisen ankeaan kohtaloon ja etsii huimapäisesti onneaan maailmalta. Rangaistukseksi sääntöjen rikkomisesta yhteiskunta anastaa häneltä kaikkein tärkeimmän, vapauden, ja sulkee hänet Seilin saarelle. Voimaannuttava ja vapauttava, eeppinen seikkailu- ja rakkaustarina kuolemattomasta toivosta, mielenrauhan tavoittelusta, lujasta ystävyydestä sekä ikiaikaiset luokkarajat murskaavasta rakkaudesta.

Lapland War, set in 1944 during the Lapland War, is a survival story. It’s a tale of forgiveness, both on a national and personal level. The film seeks answers to what it means to be human and what our purpose here is. Based on Antti Tuuri’s novel Rauta-antura (The Iron Boot), the film offers a historically accurate portrayal. It follows the journey of a few individuals, told from their perspective, as they travel there and back.

Adults cancel Christmas! Pikkuli and his friends set out on a secret mission to find the mythical Starlight Reindeer and save Christmas. They meet many obstacles and dangers, and eventually find Starlight Reindeer – only to realise that what makes Christmas special is that they are all together. The kids return home and the adults uncancel Christmas! At the core of the story is the amazing power of Pikkuli’s faith in his dream. Faith can move mountains and even the smallest of us can do great things.

Eager to start a family, Saga and Jon move to her childhood home in the Finnish forest. But after their baby’s birth, the couple’s dream of a perfect child spirals into a nightmare and only she senses the unsettling truth.

In Finland, sixteen-year-old emo teen Johanna dreams of a glittering twilight vampire prince. What she gets instead is Martti — a balding, beer-bellied 49-year-old bloodsucker who slips into a santa suit to gain entry to homes and devour entire families. When Johanna crosses paths with Martti on Christmas Eve, she thinks her dark fairy tale has come true. But instead of eternal romance, she finds herself trapped in a horrific and bloody nightmare of aging masculinity, family trauma, and festive slaughter. By morning, the snow will turn red.

A Kurdish-Finnish woman finds her life and family crumbling apart, as her father makes an unexpected, devastating visit, which forces her to confront her complicated past with the father and her adopted 12- year-old daughter.

Julia, early 30s, travels to her new friend Anna’s island villa for a late Summer weekend. When Anna introduces her husband, JP, Julia recognises him as her date-rapist of fifteen years earlier. Both Julia and JP keep their past acquaintance a secret from Anna, who grows increasingly uneasy about the tension between her husband and her new friend. Over the weekend the simmering conflicts between the trio deepen.

A religious family from Romania moves to the countryside of Norway. When their son shows up at school with some bruises on his body, the community asks itself, if the religious education the Gheorghiu children get, based on strict discipline and tolerating physical corrections could be the cause.

Three couples in their mid-60s spend their summers in Pärnu, Estonia. Everything is beautiful, except that Susanna and Ilkka fall in love. How to deal with that at this age? How is one “supposed to” spend your life when you have a limited number of good years ahead? A warm, romantic and funny movie about people who are still young at heart.

Ricky The Rapper and the Last Ice Cream Cone is a fast-paced family adventure set on a train journey, where Risto, Nelli, Aunt Rauha and Mr Lindberg travel across Finland to Höljäkkä in North Karelia in search of Europe’s last ever ice-cream cone.