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LET US CAPTURE
YOUR IMAGINATION
AND YOUR HEART!
IRINA KROHN, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Dear Friends. You now have in your hands
our newly revamped film catalogue with
our latest feature and documentary films. In
recent years we have brought you a fatherless
reindeer boy as well as the Nazis from the
dark side of the moon. We wish to continue
bringing excitement your way with our latest
offerings which are as vivacious and colorful
as the ever-changing seasons of Finnish
nature.
FACTS
ADMISSIONS
8,5 million
BOX OFFICE
79 million euros
DOMESTIC
MARKET
SHARE
Lauri Maijala shows the fans of the Hangover
films how it’s really done – the Finnish way with his Gloriously Wasted. Matti Ijäs makes
a fantastic comeback with Things We Do for
Love and brings you the wickedly delicious
Ansa, who makes men chase her through our
impressive Arctic landscapes. Aki Kaurismäki’s
muse and Cannes winner Kati Outinen fights
for her right to happiness in Cold-War era
Europe in Taru Mäkelä’s wonderfully warm
August Fools. Actress extraordinaire Leea
Klemola convincingly refuses to be a victim
in Simo Halinen’s Open Up to Me portraying
an ordinary woman who just happened to
be a man before, in search of her Mr. Right.
Our masterful documentary filmmaker Pirjo
Honkasalo returns to the fiction genre with
Concrete Night, taking the art film to a
whole new level. Documentary, which has
long been the flagship of Finnish cinema, is
staying its course as well. Susanna Helke’s
American Vagabond shows a harsh reality
of gay teenagers in America while Aleksi
Salmenperä follows a man in search of his
dream along the Alcan Highway. I invite you
to explore the rest of this catalogue yourself.
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CINEMA
SCREENS
280 (95 % digitized)
FEATURE
FILMS
PRODUCED
45 (of which 14
co-productions)
TOTAL
SUPPORT
GRANTED
2012
26,8 million EUR
(by the Finnish Film
Foundation)
PHOTO: PAAVO LEHTONEN
Last year the Finnish filmmakers broke
domestic box office records while making
films that changed the way we look at
ourselves and one another. Great stories are
universal and we hope that you will give ours
a chance to capture your imagination and
your heart!
28 %
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Cultural
Export
of Finnish
Films
The Finnish Film Foundation is
responsible for the cultural export
and international promotion of
Finnish films. Our aim is to increase
the visibility of Finnish films and
aid their international distribution.
Major international film festivals offer
Finnish films an important channel to
foreign markets.
The Finnish Film Foundation
participates in film markets at the
Berlin, Cannes and Toronto Film
Festivals together with other Nordic
film institutes under the ‘Scandinavian
Films’ banner. To promote short
and documentary films, The Nordic
film institutes and the Finnish
Film Foundation cooperate at the
Clermont-Ferrand International Short
Film Festival in France, International
Documentary Film Festival (IDFA)
in Amsterdam, and at the Nordisk
Panorama event.
We aim to find the appropriate
international venue for each film in
order to reach its target audience.
Festival distribution is complemented
by Finnish film weeks organized
around the world in partnership
with Finnish embassies and cultural
institutes.
The Finnish Film Foundation
cooperates with AVEK - The
Promotion Centre for Audiovisual
Culture in the cultural export of
short and documentary films. The
Foundation also grants support for
the international promotion of Finnish
films.
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CONTENTS
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Foreword
Contents
Festival Contacts for Feature Films
FEATURE FILMS
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Ella and Friends
Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble
Rolli and the Golden Key
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
8-Ball
Above Dark Waters
August Fools
Body Fat Index of Love
Concrete Night
Conversations between men
The Disciple
Gloriously Wasted
The Hijack That Went South
Kekkonen
Lion Heart
The Only Ones
Open Up to Me
A Patriotic Man
Princess of Egypt
Purge
Things We Do for Love
The Year of ´85 - Rock your memories
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Festival Contacts for Documentary Films
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15
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24
25
26
27
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
45
Tale of a Forest
11 Images of Human
Alcan Highway
American Vagabond
Body of God
Chimeras
Finnish Blood Swedish Heart
Hilton! - here for life
Hotel Viru - oratorio to a building
The King - Jari Litmanen
My Stuff
Neighbours
When Heroes Lie
Wolfman
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Finnish Production Companies
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44
Children, Youth and Family Films
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FESTIVAL
CONTACTS
FOR FEATURE
FILMS
JAANA PUSKALA
HEAD OF FEATURE FILM PROMOTION
[email protected]
+358 9 62203026
MARJO PIPINEN (Until July 31, 2013)
ASSISTANT OF FEATURE FILM PROMOTION
[email protected]
+358 9 62203032
JENNI DOMINGO (From August 1, 2013)
ASSISTANT OF FEATURE FILM PROMOTION
[email protected]
+358 9 62203032
KATI NUORA
INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION
[email protected]
+358 9 62203020
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FEATURE
FILMS
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FEATURE FILMS: CHILDREN & YOUTH
SNAPPER FILMS
DCP | 2.35:1 | 81’
DEBUT
PREMIERE: DECEMBER 28, 2012
ELLA AND FRIENDS
ELLA JA KAVERIT
Ella and her friends find out that their much-loved neighborhood school
will be shut down and all the kids will be relocated to a brand new central
school… well, not simply a school but something much fancier: a Centralized
Learning and Schooling Facility located in the city center. Ella and the gang
decide to team up with their teacher to fight for their old school. Ella and
Friends is based on Timo Parvela’s popular Ella book series.
DIRECTOR: TANELI MUSTONEN SCRIPT: ALEKSI HYVÄRINEN, TIMO PARVELA CINEMATOGRAPHY: DANIEL LINDHOLM EDITING:
ALEKSI RAIJ SOUND DESIGN: KIMMO PERKKIÖ SET DESIGN: SARAH BOWEN-WALSH COSTUMES: HENNA SAARIVUORI CAST:
EERO MILONOFF, KARI KETONEN, FREJA TEIJONSALO, ARTTURI AUVINEN, EETU JULIN, AKI LAIHO, JYRY KORTELAINEN,
AURA MIKKONEN, EMILIA PAASONEN, EERIKA PATRAKKA, OLIVER KIVI, ARMI TOIVANEN, VILLE MYLLYRINNE, PAMELA
TOLA, VILLE VIRTANEN, TIINA WECKSTRÖM PRODUCER: JUHA WUOLIJOKI PRODUCTION COMPANY: SNAPPER FILMS OY
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: MTV3 DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND:
SNAPPER FILMS OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
TANELI MUSTONEN (b.1978) is a Finnish director and screenwriter. He has
a Master of Arts degree of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Ella and
Friends is Taneli’s first feature. He has directed music videos, awarded short
films and television series.
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FEATURE FILMS: CHILDREN & YOUTH
ANIMAKER
DCP, 35 MM | 1.85:1 | 75’
PREMIERE: OCTOBER 12, 2012
NIKO 2 - LITTLE BROTHER,
BIG TROUBLE
NIKO 2 - LENTÄJÄVELJEKSET
Niko, a young reindeer boy, secretly wishes his mom and his hero dad from
Santa’s world famous Flying Forces would get back together so they could be a
real family - something they have never been. One day mom springs the news
on Niko; she’s met a guy, an ordinary reindeer, Lenni, and he and his little son
Jonni will be moving in. Niko´s world is shaken: he will no longer be the only
child. Furthermore, when called upon to look after this darn cute little stepbrother, Jonni goes missing and Niko must embark on a dangerous journey to
save him.
DIRECTOR: KARI JUUSONEN CO-DIRECTOR: JØRGEN LERDAM SCRIPT: HANNU TUOMAINEN, MARTEINN THORISSON
PRODUCTION DESIGN: MIKKO PITKÄNEN EDITING: ANTTI HAIKALA ANIMATION: ANIMA VITAE, STUDIO RAKETE, A.FILM
PRODUCTION, TIDAL FILMS PRODUCERS: ANTTI HAIKALA, PETTERI PASANEN, HANNU TUOMAINEN PRODUCTION COMPANY:
ANIMA VITAE & CINEMAKER FOR ANIMAKER CO-PRODUCERS: ULYSSES FILMS (D), A.FILM PRODUCTION (DK), TIDAL
FILMS (IE) PRODUCTION SUPPORT: FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, EURIMAGES, GERMAN FEDERAL FILM FUND, FILMFUND,
HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, THE IRISH FILMBOARD, FFA, THE DANISH FILM INSTITUTE, NORDISK FILM & TV FOND,
NORDMEDIA, TELEPOOL, NORDISK FILM, UNIVERSUM, ROVANIEMI TURISM & MARKETING, MEDIA PROGRAM OF THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, TV2 DENMARK DISTRIBUTOR IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY
INTERNATIONAL SALES: GLOBAL SCREEN
KARI JUUSONEN is Finland’s most successful director of animation. He
directed Niko & The Way to the Stars with Michael Hegner which received
over 3 million admissions in world-wide cinema distribution. Kari has also
directed several animated shorts, among them the Cannes Festival winner
Pizza Passionata.
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FEATURE FILMS: CHILDREN & YOUTH
MRP MATILA RÖHR PRODUCTIONS
DCP | 2.35:1 | 86’
PREMIERE: FEBRUARY 1, 2013
ROLLI AND THE
GOLDEN KEY
RÖLLI JA KULTAINEN AVAIN
A flock of storks fly in the misty sky, all carrying white bundles. One of the
bundles falls and a little girl called Juniper ends up in a strange world. This
is the beginning of a wonderful, magical adventure as the girl tries to find
out who she really is and where she came from. She finally meets an old troll
called Rolli who tells the girl his own, eventful story. The girl and the troll
become friends and together they encounter a dangerous threat against the
fairytale woods. This is a universal tale of bravery and friendship that takes
its audience through exciting plot twists, circus spotlights and the splendor of
the fantastic forest.
DIRECTOR: TAAVI VARTIA SCRIPT: TAAVI VARTIA CINEMATOGRAPHY: JYRI HAKALA EDITING: BENJAMIN MERCER MUSIC:
PESSI LEVANTO, SONGS ALLU TUPPURAINEN SOUND DESIGN: PEKKA KARJALAINEN SET DESIGN: PÄIVI KETTUNEN
COSTUMES: ANNA VILPPUNEN CAST: ALLU TUPPURAINEN, MIKKO LEPPILAMPI, KRISTA KOSONEN, JARKKO NIEMI, IINA
KUUSTONEN, VILLE HAAPASALO PRODUCER: MARKO RÖHR PRODUCTION COMPANY: MRP MATILA RÖHR PRODUCTIONS
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: CONTACT MEDIA GROUP, RUSSIA PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION,
NORDIC FILM AND TV FUND FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL
SALES: TBA
TAAVI VARTIA (b. 1965) is a Finnish director, scriptwriter and author. Since
1990 Taavi Vartia has planned, directed and produced programs for all of
Finland’s national television channels spanning a range of genres including
drama, entertainment, music, profiles and documentaries. He has been
involved in the production of over 1,100 episodes. In recent years he has
received recognition as a writer of young adult dramas, as a documentarian
as well as in the field of theater. Vartia has published three novels.
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FEATURE FILMS
DIONYSOS FILMS
DCP | 2.35:1 | 92’
PREMIERE: FEBRUARY 8, 2013
21 WAYS TO RUIN
A MARRIAGE
21 TAPAA PILATA AVIOLIITTO
We have someone who doesn’t want to fall in love. We have another who
wants just that. The third is married to the wrong woman, and the fourth is
single. Soon everyone will be, if the 21 ways to ruin a marriage are put to use.
DIRECTOR: JOHANNA VUOKSENMAA SCRIPT: JOHANNA VUOKSENMAA CINEMATOGRAPHY: JAN NYMAN EDITING:
ANTTI REIKKO MUSIC: KERKKO KOSKINEN SOUND DESIGN: TUOMAS KLAAVO & MIKKO MÄKELÄ SET DESIGN: CHRISTER
ANDERSSON COSTUMES: TIINA KAUKANEN CAST: ARMI TOIVANEN, RIKU NIEMINEN, ESSI HELLÉN, AKU HIRVINIEMI,
HANNELE LAURI, VESA VIERIKKO, PAMELA TOLA PRODUCER: RIINA HYYTIÄ PRODUCTION COMPANY: DIONYSOS FILMS OY
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: MTV3 DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND:
NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
JOHANNA VUOKSENMAA (b. 1965) is a film and TV director whose
work has attracted audiences with its humor, dramatic amplitude and keen
psychological insight. Before the feature “21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage”
she has directed three films for theatrical distribution (“One Foot Under”
2009, “Upswing”, 2003, “Onni von Sopanen”, 2006) as well as numerous TV
comedies and dramas. Her hugely popular “Click me” (2011), 12 episodes
drama series, won 4 Golden Venla awards. Johanna Vuoksenmaa studied at
the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, majoring in screenwriting.
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FEATURE FILMS
BLIND SPOT PICTURES
DCP | 2.39:1 | 107’
PREMIERE: FEBRUARY 2, 2013
8-BALL
8-PALLO
Pirkko has served her sentence in prison and now embraces freedom with her
eight-month-old girl. She is determined to start over and avoid making the
mistakes of her past when her ex-boyfriend shows up, re-igniting their passion
but also casting shadows over the future. But Pirkko will not give up, not this
time. She will hold on to her new life at any cost.
DIRECTOR: AKU LOUHIMIES SCRIPT: JARI OLAVI RANTALA CINEMATOGRAPHY: MIKA ORASMAA EDITING: SAMU HEIKKILÄ
SOUND DESIGN: KIRKA SAINIO SET DESIGN: PETE NEUVONEN COSTUMES: ANNE-MARIA YLITAPIO CAST: JESSICA GRABOWSKY,
EERO AHO, PIRKKA-PEKKA PETELIUS, MIKKO LEPPILAMPI PRODUCER: TERO KAUKOMAA PRODUCTION COMPANY: BLIND SPOT
PICTURES CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: MJÖLK PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV
COMPANIES: CHANNEL FOUR FINLAND DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
AKU LOUHIMIES is an accomplished Finnish film director and screenwriter.
Louhimies started his career by directing documentaries, music videos and
commercials. He has now directed 8 feature films and has won several prizes
around the world.
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FEATURE FILMS
SOLAR FILMS INC
DCP | 2.35:1 | 120’
PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
ABOVE DARK WATERS
DEBUT
TUMMAN VEDEN PÄÄLLÄ
Based on the novel of the same name by actor Peter Franzén, Above Dark
Waters is a touching story of growth in northern Finland. A small boy enjoys
family life as usual; meals together, playing with siblings and friends. Everything seems familiar, almost idyllic. But the boy starts to hear noises at night;
arguments, crying. The father disappears and the mother takes the kids to the
grandparents´ house. The child trusts his parents unconditionally, admiring
their wisdom and experience, full of hope and faith for the future. But what
happens to the child when this image is shattered? When threats and fear become a daily routine?
DIRECTOR: PETER FRANZÉN SCRIPT: PETER FRANZÉN CINEMATOGRAPHY: PINI HELLSTEDT F.S.C. EDITING: KIMMO TAAVILA
SOUND DESIGN: JOONAS JYRÄLÄ SET DESIGN: PIRJO ROSSI COSTUMES: TIINA KAUKANEN CAST: OLAVI ANGERVO, SAMULI
EDELMANN, MATLEENA KUUSKOSKI, ISMO KALLIO, MARIA PACKALÉN, MARI PERANKOSKI, PETER FRANZÉN PRODUCERS: MARKUS
SELIN, JUKKA HELLE PRODUCTION COMPANY: SOLAR FILMS OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION
FINANCING TV COMPANIES: CHANNEL FOUR FINLAND DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY
PETER FRANZÉN (b. 1971) is one of the most respected Finnish actors.
Franzén is a graduate of the Helsinki University of Arts. After a long career
in theater he turned to cinema on both sides of the camera: as an actor
he has appeared in more than 40 films and 15 TV series. He has been
awarded the Jussi Award three times; for best supporting actor in King of
the Lumberjacks (1998) and for best actor in Dog Nail Clipper (2004) and
Hellsinki (2009).
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FEATURE FILMS
KINOSTO
DCP | 2.35:1 | 103’
PREMIERE: OCTOBER, 2013
AUGUST FOOLS
MIELETÖN ELOKUU
Elsa, a middle-aged milliner and part-time clairvoyant, runs the smartest little
hat-shop in the heart of Helsinki, 1962. She has total control of her life until
the man she once loved and lost suddenly reappears. Jan is in town to perform at the Festival with his Czech jazz band. For more than two decades Elsa
has believed the man to be dead. Initially, Elsa wants to stay away from Jan
but he is persistent, persuasive and charming.
DIRECTOR: TARU MÄKELÄ SCRIPT: RAIJA TALVIO CINEMATOGRAPHY: JOUKO SEPPÄLÄ EDITING: INGE-LISE LANGFELDT MUSIC:
STEIN BERGE SVENDSEN SOUND DESIGN: PIETARI KOSKINEN SET DESIGN: JAN KADLÉC COSTUMES: KATARINA ŠTRBOVÁBIELIKOVÁ CAST: KATI OUTINEN, MIROSLAV ETZLER, ELENA LEEVE, KRYSTOF HADEK, LAURA BIRN AND ESKO SALMINEN
PRODUCER: MARKKU FLINK PRODUCTION COMPANY: KINOSTO CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: POMOR FILM (NOR), FOG´N´DESIRE
FILMS (CZ) PRODUCTION SUPPORT: FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE, MINISTRY OF CULTURE CZECH
REPUBLIC, NORDIC FILM AND TV FUND, EURIMAGES FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE CO-PRODUCTIONS, CZECH TELEVISION
DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
TARU MÄKELÄ August Fools, the latest film from director Taru Mäkelä,
continues her successful career in directing comedies and feel good films
with social satire and sharp humor. Previous film Storage, an (un) romantic
comedy about people in a paint store, was a box office hit in Finland in 2012.
Little Sister, her first feature film, was nominated as the Finnish competitor to
the contest of the best Nordic film 2000.
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FEATURE FILMS
MRP MATILA RÖHR PRODUCTIONS
DCP | 2.39:1 | 98’
PREMIERE: DECEMBER 12, 2012
BODY FAT INDEX
OF LOVE
DEBUT
RAKKAUDEN RASVAPROSENTTI
Timo “Stigu” Mertala is a celebrated, award-winning adman, and sworn
to singlehood. Ella Sadeoja is a salesperson at a department store whose
longtime dream is to start her own clothing store. When they meet Stigu
falls head over heels for her. But, to Stigu’s surprise, all Ella wants from a
relationship is good and regular sex. No commitment, not even Facebook
friendship. Stigu is startled but he decides to play along. They end up
working together on a project, designing an advertisement on sustainable
relationships. Ella doesn’t believe in the whole concept, while Stigu knows
nothing about it. Deep in the Finnish heartlands at the world renowned Wife
Carrying Contest Stigu sets out to have Ella all for himself at any cost.
DIRECTOR: MIKKO KUPARINEN SCRIPT: LAURA IMMONEN, HANNAMAIJA MATILA CINEMATOGRAPHY: JANI KUMPULAINEN
EDITING: JUKKA NYKÄNEN MUSIC: PESSI LEVANTO SOUND DESIGN: PEKKA KARJALAINEN SET DESIGN: ANTTI NIKKINEN
COSTUMES: JOHANNA LEHTINEN CAST: MIKKO NOUSIAINEN, MIINA MAASOLA PRODUCER: ILKKA MATILA PRODUCTION
COMPANY: MRP MATILA RÖHR PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, MEDIA PROGRAMME
OF THE EUROPEAN UNION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: CHANNEL FOUR FINLAND, DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
MIKKO KUPARINEN (b.1979) is an award winning debutant director from
Finland. He has graduated from Helsinki Film School and his latest short
films have won awards both in Finland and abroad. Mikko´s graduation
film Truth or Dare (2009) won 2nd prize at New York University´s Next Reel
Film Festival and his latest short Sirocco (2012) opened its festival circuit
in competition at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. Mikko has also
directed a feature length TV film Mobile Horror (2010), which was nominated
for a Golden Venla Award in Finland. Body Fat Index of Love is Mikko´s first
feature film.
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FEATURE FILMS
BUFO
DCP | 2.39:1 | 90’
PREMIERE: 2013
CONCRETE NIGHT
BETONIYÖ
VILLE TANTTU
Concrete Night opens in a cramped, concrete-jungle home. Ilkka, the elder of
the two brothers, is getting ready to go and serve his prison sentence. During
Ilkka’s last 24 hours of freedom, his little brother Simo follows the brother he
admires through the fateful sights of that night.
DIRECTOR: PIRJO HONKASALO SCRIPT: PIRJO HONKASALO, PIRKKO SAISIO CINEMATOGRAPHY: PETER FLINCKENBERG
EDITING: NIELS PAGH ANDERSEN MUSIC: KARL FRID, PÄR FRID SOUND DESIGN: JAN ALVEMARK SET DESIGN: PENTTI
VALKEASUO COSTUMES: SAIJA SIEKKINEN CAST: JOHANNES BROTHERUS, JARI VIRMAN, ANNELI KARPPINEN, JUHAN
ULFSAK, ALEX ANTON PRODUCERS: MISHA JAARI, MARK LWOFF PRODUCTION COMPANY: BUFO CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
PLATTFORM PRODUKTION, MAGIC HOUR FILMS PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, NORDIC FILM AND TV
FUND, SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE, DANISH FILM INSTITUTE FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, DR DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND:
CINEMA MONDO
PIRJO HONKASALO is a highly established director, cinematographer and
screenwriter who has won countless awards for her work. She directed several
feature films in the 1970’s and 80’s together with Pekka Lehto, e.g. Flame Top
in Cannes competition 1980. In the 1990’s she continued alone and turned to
feature documentaries, directing the prize winning The Trilogy of the Sacred
and the Satanic (Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils and Atman). She has
also directed the stunningly beautiful The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, which is
still one of the highest award winning feature documentaries ever. She has had
well over twenty retrospectives of her work world wide, acted as a member of
several international juries and is actively giving international master classes.
Concrete Night marks her return to feature fiction.
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FEATURE FILMS
VEGETARIAN FILMS
DCP | 116’
PREMIERE: JANUARY 4, 2013
CONVERSATIONS
BETWEEN MEN
MIESTEN VÄLISIÄ KESKUSTELUJA
After eight successful satiric novels about Finnish politicians and cultural life,
Kari Mairisaari quit working on his ninth novel about the True Finns party
members. Instead he started writing a book about a bus mechanic. Not your
average handyman, Vlatko is a 36-year-old Croat employed as an Espoo city
traffic worker who one day is picked up to answer to war crimes charges.
Writing a novel is a serious challenge to Mairisaari. Can he risk everything he
has achieved so far to relearn and navigate the path of the novel writer?
DIRECTOR: JARMO LAMPELA SCRIPT: JARMO LAMPELA CINEMATOGRAPHY: AARNE TAPOLA EDITING: KAUKO LINDFORS MUSIC:
JUHA POTKA SOUND DESIGN: PATRICK BOULANGER SET DESIGN: TERO VILLER COSTUMES: TERO VILLER CAST: JUHA KUKKONEN,
REA MAURANEN, PIHLA PENTTINEN, AARNI KIVINEN PRODUCER: ILKKA MERTSOLA PRODUCTION COMPANY: VEGETARIAN FILMS
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: PEK
JARMO LAMPELA (b.1964) has directed several film and TV productions
since 1991. He has also worked as a screenwriter and theater director. Since
2007 Lampela has been a professor of directing at ELO film school, Aalto
University, Helsinki.
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FEATURE FILMS
LÅNGFILM PRODUCTIONS FINLAND
DCP | 2.35:1 | 90’
SECOND
FEATURE
PREMIERE: MAY, 2013
THE DISCIPLE
LÄRJUNGEN
An isolated island in the Baltic Sea in the summer of 1939: Thirteen-year-old
Karl comes to the island to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant.
Master Hasselbond turns Karl down because of his young age. Karl struggles
desperately to stay on. Karl and Hasselbond’s oppressed son, Gustaf, make
friends but their friendship changes to rivalry and hate when Hasselbond starts
to favor Karl over his own son.
DIRECTOR: ULRIKA BENGTS SCRIPT: JIMMY KARLSSON, ROLAND FAUSER CINEMATOGRAPHY: ROBERT NORDSTRÖM EDITING:
TUOMO LEINO MUSIC: PETER HÄGERSTRAND SOUND DESIGN: RISTO IISSALO SET DESIGN: KATARINA LUME COSTUMES:
RIITTA PETERI CAST: ERIK LÖNNGREN, PATRIK KUMPULAINEN, PING MON WALLÉN, NIKLAS GROUNDSTROEM, AMANDA OOMS
PRODUCER: MATS LÅNGBACKA PRODUCTION COMPANY: LÅNGFILM PRODUCTIONS FINLAND OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE
FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, SVT DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: KINOSCREEN ILLUSION LTD
INTERNATIONAL SALES: AB INTERPROD OY
ULRIKA BENGTS (b. 1962) is a Finnish film and theater director. She is a
graduate of the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and has directed
over 20 short films, television-series and documentaries. The Disciple is her
second feature film.
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FEATURE FILMS
DICTATOR FILMS
DCP | 2.39:1 | 85’
PREMIERE: DECEMBER 28, 2012
GLORIOUSLY WASTED
DEBUT
JUOPPOHULLUN PÄIVÄKIRJA
Juha Berg is a hopeless 30-year-old drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki who has no intention of changing his ways. He really enjoys miscellaneous sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol
for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the joy of living in
a drunken haze is threatened when passionate Juha falls in love with his AA
group leader. Juha struggles balancing an intimate relationship and his old
lifestyle. Juha’s best friend Kristian also does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha’s shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an
expert on German erotica. Gloriously Wasted is based on the first part of Juha
Vuorinen’s immensely popular Gloriously Wasted book series.
DIRECTOR: LAURI MAIJALA SCRIPT: LAURI MAIJALA CINEMATOGRAPHY: RIKE JOKELA EDITING: HARRI YLÖNEN MUSIC:
KERKKO KOSKINEN SOUND DESIGN: MIKA NIINIMAA, JANNE JANKERI SET DESIGN: MARKKU PÄTILÄ COSTUMES: TIINA WILÉN
CAST: JOONAS SAARTAMO, KRISTA KOSONEN, SANTTU KARVONEN, JOHANNES HOLOPAINEN PRODUCER: ALEKSI BARDY, JUHA
VUORINEN PRODUCTION COMPANY: DICTATOR FILMS OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING
TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: SCANBOX ENTERTAINMENT FINLAND OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: THE
YELLOW AFFAIR
LAURI MAIJALA (b.1986) has a bachelor’s degree in theatre (TeaK). He has
directed 17 plays, written 3 screenplays and has composed music for several
plays. His plays “Kunnalliskertomus” 2009, and ”Mannerheim” 2010 , both
directed and written by Maijala have been part of Helsinki Festival. Also
Mahagony-ooppera directed by Maijala (UMO, Avanti!, Kapsäkki 2011) has
been part of Helsinki Festival. Gloriously Wasted is Maijala’s first feature film.
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FEATURE FILMS
SOLAR FILMS INC
DCP | 2.35:1 | 93’
PREMIERE: JANUARY 18, 2013
THE HIJACK THAT
WENT SOUTH
KAAPPARI
The year is 1978. Aaro Lamminparras is a down-on-his-luck businessman.
He is always patriotic and full of good intentions but is often cheated by his
partners. One drunken evening in Oulu he ends up spending a night with his
friend, sergeant Lönnroth, an avid hunter and gun collector. In the morning
Lamminparras decides to fly to Helsinki after arguing with his wife on telephone. Onboard he is surprised to find a handgun in his briefcase and, on a
whim, he hijacks the plane. This starts a hilarious chain of events – both inside
the plane and outside. With the country shut down for the Easter holiday,
politicians are partying, the media is shocked, the police caught off-guard,
the rumors are outrageous…
DIRECTOR: ALEKSI MÄKELÄ SCRIPT: ELIAS KOSKIMIES, MIKA KARTTUNEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: PINI HELLSTEDT F.S.C.
EDITING: KIMMO TAAVILA MUSIC: LAURI PORRA SOUND DESIGN: JYRKI RAHKONEN SET DESIGN: PIRJO ROSSI COSTUMES:
TIINA KAUKANEN CAST: KARI HIETALAHTI, AAKE KALLIALA, JUSSI VATANEN, HANNU-PEKKA BJÖRKMAN, MIITTA SORVALI,
ARMI TOIVANEN, VILLE MYLLYRINNE, KIMMO LISKI, PEKKA VALKEEJÄRVI, ELINA KEINONEN, PIRJO LONKA, JUHO MILONOFF
PRODUCERS: JUKKA HELLE, MARKUS SELIN PRODUCTION COMPANY: SOLAR FILMS OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH
FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: MTV3 DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL
SALES: TBA
ALEKSI MÄKELÄ (b. 1969) is the most successful Finnish film director of the modern era:
his films have been seen by as many as 2.5 million Finnish moviegoers. The Hijack that Went
South is Mäkelä’s 11th feature film. Of his earlier films, The Tough Ones (1999) heralded the
recent rise of Finnish cinema with 330 000 domestic admission. It was also the Finnish entry
for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1999 Academy Awards. Mäkelä has also directed
two of the biggest domestic box office hits: Bad Boys (2003, 615 000 admissions) and
Matti - Hell is for Heroes (2006, 462 000 admissions). Mäkelä’s Vares - Private Eye (2004) and
Hellsinki (2009) were also the top domestic films of the year. Mäkelä’s films have won a total
of 11 Jussi Film Awards, three of which were for the most popular movie of the year. In 2009
Mäkelä was awarded The State Prize for Cinema. Besides feature films Aleksi Mäkelä has
directed hundreds of hours worth of TV series, commercials and music videos.
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FEATURE FILMS
SOLAR FILMS INC
DCP | 2.35:1 | 95’
PREMIERE: AUGUST 16, 2013
KEKKONEN
SECOND
FEATURE
KEKKONEN - HÄN TULEE
“Berries grow faster, animals bow, the sick are healed, the poor get wealthy
and women conceive. All dreams come true where Kekkonen treads.” Urho
Kaleva Kekkonen, the long-time president of the Republic of Finland, is scheduled to visit Alli’s Bar on his way to northern Finland. He is blindly worshiped
and the nearer the visit draws, the more envy, competition and dirty tricks
come to bear in this small town setting. No one is spared the brutality!
DIRECTOR: MARJA PYYKKÖ SCRIPT: ELIAS KOSKIMIES (BASED ON A NOVEL URHO KEKKONEN STRASSE BY PIA PESONEN)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: KONSTA SOHLBERG EDITING: MIKKO SIPPOLA MUSIC: ANTTI LEHTINEN SOUND DESIGN: PANU RIIKONEN
SET DESIGN: SATTVA-HANNA TOIVIAINEN COSTUMES: TIINA KAUKANEN CAST: WILMA ROSENQVIST, MERJA LARIVAARA,
MARJAANA MAIJALA, KONSTA MÄKELÄ, MIINA TURUNEN, AAKE KALLIALA, JUKKA PUOTILA, VILLE VIRTANEN, ILMARI
JÄRVENPÄÄ, TEIJO ELORANTA, IINA KUUSTONEN, MARJA MYLLYLÄ, TOMI SALMELA, KRISTIINA ELSTELÄ, JAANA SAARINEN
PRODUCERS: MARKUS SELIN, JUKKA HELLE PRODUCTION COMPANY: SOLAR FILMS INC. PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH
FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: MTV3 DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL
SALES: TBA
MARJA PYYKKÖ (b.1975) is one of Finland’s most promising young
directors. She earned her Master of Arts in film directing at University of Art
and Design Helsinki. Kekkonen is Marja Pyykkö’s second feature film. Her
feature film debut was Run Sister Run, released in August 2010. MPyykkö
has directed several short films and TV commercials and has worked as an
assistant director and casting director for feature films and TV series since
1995. Her graduation film from UIAH was the 60-minute television film Here
Lies Aino Koski.
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FEATURE FILMS
HELSINKI-FILMI
DCP
PREMIERE: OCTOBER 18, 2013
LION HEART
LEIJONASYDÄN
Teppo, the central figure in a neo-Nazi group, meets, immediately falls in love
and moves in with Sari whose son, Rhamadhani, is half-black. Teppo starts to
overcome his own prejudices, but the situation becomes more complex when
Sari is bound to bed rest and Teppo must take sole responsibility for Rhamadhani. Teppo’s neo-Nazi younger brother Harri is kicked out of the army and
moves in uninvited. Harri implements an Apartheid-like system in the home,
in which each race has their own area. Teppo finally sticks up for Rhamadhani
and becomes a good stepfather, but not without paying a dear price for it.
DIRECTOR: DOME KARUKOSKI SCRIPT: ALEKSI BARDY CINEMATOGRAPHY: HENA BLOMBERG EDITING: HARRI YLÖNEN SET
DESIGN: ANTTI NIKKINEN COSTUMES: ANNA VILPPUNEN CAST: PETER FRANZEN, YUSUFA SIDIBEH, LAURA BIRN, JASPER
PÄÄKKÖNEN, PAMELA TOLA, JUSSI VATANEN, TIMO LAVIKAINEN, NIKO VAKKURI, MIKKO NEUVONEN PRODUCER: ALEKSI
BARDY PRODUCTION COMPANY: HELSINKI -FILMI OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING
TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: SCANBOX ENTERTAINMENT FINLAND OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: THE
YELLOW AFFAIR
DOME KARUKOSKI (b. 1976, Cyprus) is one of Finland’s most successful
young film directors with over 30 festival awards and having directed four
feature films that have sold more than 100,000 tickets – the rule-of-thumb
measure for a blockbuster in the territory. His previous film Lapland Odyssey
was the number one film in the Finnish box office of 2010. It was also
selected as the best Finnish film of the year in the Jussi film awards.
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FEATURE FILMS
YELLOW FILM AND TV
DCP | 1.85:1 | 90’
PREMIERE: DECEMBER 27, 2013
THE ONLY ONES
AINOAT OIKEAT
The Only Ones is a romantic comedy about a woman who finally finds her Only
One, who then mysteriously disappears. But then she finds the second Only
One, who happens to be the Prime Minister of Finland.
DIRECTOR: SAARA CANTELL SCRIPT: OUTI KESKEVAARI CINEMATOGRAPHY: HEIKKI FÄRM EDITING: JUKKA NYKÄNEN MUSIC:
SID HILLE SOUND DESIGN: PIETARI KOSKINEN SET DESIGN: PIRJO ROSSI COSTUMES: NINNI LAHTINEN CAST: MINNA SORVOJA
PRODUCER: JARKKO HENTULA PRODUCTION COMPANY: YELLOW FILM & TV PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM
FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY
SAARA CANTELL has written and directed numerous short films, TV series
and four feature films: Unna & Nuuk (2006), Heartbeats (2010), Stars Above
(2012) and The Only Ones (2013). Her films have won several prizes at the
international film festivals since her graduation film A Tale of Shatters (1996).
In her 2011 doctoral thesis Cantell discussed the storytelling strategies in
short fiction film.
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FEATURE FILMS
EDITH FILM
DCP | 95’
PREMIERE: MARCH 8, 2013
OPEN UP TO ME
KERRON SINULLE KAIKEN
HENA BLOMBERG
Open Up to Me is an intense psychological drama about sexual identities. In
modern relationships nothing can be taken for granted anymore. There is no
ready-made model for love. We have to create our own morals. We have to
draw the lines and, sometimes, when our hearts tell us to, cross them.
DIRECTOR: SIMO HALINEN SCRIPT: SIMO HALINEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: HENA BLOMBERG EDITING: JUSSI RAUTANIEMI MUSIC:
JARMO SAARI SOUND DESIGN: JANNE LAINE SET DESIGN: SANNA-MARI PIRKOLA COSTUMES: RIITTA-MARIA VEHMAN CAST:
LEEA KLEMOLA, PETER FRANZÉN, RIA KATAJA, EMMI NIVALA, ALEX ANTON PRODUCER: LIISA PENTTILÄ PRODUCTION COMPANY:
EDITH FILM CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: ZENTROPA INTERNATIONAL SWEDEN PRODUCTION SUPPORT: FINNISH FILM
FOUNDATION, NFTF (NORDISK FILM & TV FOND) FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, SVT DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: FUTURE FILM
INTERNATIONAL SALES: THE YELLOW AFFAIR
SIMO HALINEN (b. 1963) is a screenwriter, director and author. He
has written and directed two feature films Open Up to Me (2013) and
Cyclomania (2001) and a TV film Minerva (1997). His TV work also includes
Golden Retriever (2007) and The Girl with a Pig Tale (2004). He has written
two novels, Lemmenomenia (2008) and Idänsydänsimpukka (2004).
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FEATURE FILMS
ART FILMS PRODUCTION AFP
DCP
PREMIERE: DECEMBER 4, 2013
A PATRIOTIC MAN
ISÄNMAALLINEN MIES
Toivo has a rare blood type. His hemoglobin levels are high and his Type O
Negative blood is compatible with everyone. As a result Toivo becomes the
Finnish national ski team’s secret weapon and their biggest hope for success;
his blood is used to fuel Aino before championship-level races. Toivo begins
wrestling with his conscience on the ethics of doping while becoming increasingly involved with the hypocritical success culture sustained by the skiing
community and society at large.
DIRECTOR: ARTO HALONEN SCRIPT: ARTO HALONEN, JOUNI K. KEMPPAINEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: HANNU-PEKKA VITIKAINEN
EDITING: TUULI KUITTINEN SOUND DESIGN: KIRKA SAINIO SET DESIGN: KAISA MÄKINEN COSTUME DESIGN: JOHANNA
HEIKKILÄ MAKE-UP ARTIST: RIIKKA VIRTANEN PRODUCER: ARTO HALONEN CO-PRODUCER: IGOR A. NOLA PRODUCTION
COMPANY: ART FILMS PRODUCTION AFP OY CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: MP FILM PRODUCTION PRODUCTION SUPPORT:
THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, CANAL PLUS DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: FUTURE FILM
INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
ARTO HALONEN has directed numerous films, including the fiction feature
film Princess and the documentary films Shadow of the Holy Book, Pavlov’s
Dogs, Karmapa and the Tank Man. Halonen’s latest documentary film When
Heroes Lie (2012) received exceptionally strong praise from the critics. In
2005, Halonen was awarded the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in
the arts given by the Ministry of Culture and the Finnish State. Among other
important prizes, he has received the Humanitarian Award of the European
Union (1998), the Finnish National Mental Health Prize (2010) and the City
of Helsinki Culture prize (2010) officially recognizing him for a remarkable
artistic career. Halonen has also been awarded the Civil Action Prize of the
Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health.
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FEATURE FILMS
MAKING MOVIES
DCP | 1.85:1 | 89’
DEBUT
PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER, 2012
PRINCESS OF EGYPT
25 year-old Marja’s main focus in life is her 7-year-old daughter Julia. Marja
works nights so she can spend the days with Julia, staging elaborate games
and telling an ongoing fairytale about the adventures of the princess of Egypt
and her mother. The harmony is broken when a chance meeting brings Kamaran, an Iranian immigrant, back into Marja’s life. Kamaran’s relationship with
Marja had been brief and he never knew of the pregnancy. But he soon realizes
that Julia is his daughter. Marja’s protective instincts are awakened as Kamaran
starts following them. Marja is ready to defend Julia by any means possible.
But in the end the real danger resides closer to home.
DIRECTOR: JAN FORSSTRÖM SCRIPT: JAN FORSSTRÖM CINEMATOGRAPHY: PÄIVI KETTUNEN EDITING: JAN FORSSTRÖM MUSIC:
LAU NAU SOUND DESIGN: MICKE NYSTRÖM SET DESIGN: OKKU RAHIKAINEN & VILJA KATRAMO COSTUMES: KIRSI GUM CAST:
EMMI PARVIAINEN, LUNA LEINONEN BOTERO, YLVA EKBLAD, MAZDAK NASSIR PRODUCER: KAARLE AHO & KAI NORDBERG
PRODUCTION COMPANY: MAKING MOVIES OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES:
CHANNEL FOUR FINLAND DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: ATLANTIC FILM INTERNATIONAL SALES: TBA
JAN FORSSTRÖM (b.1975) is a Finnish screenwriter, director and editor.
His work as a screenwriter include The Visitor by J-P Valkeapää (Dragon
award for Best Nordic Film in Gothenburg IFF 2009), Last Cowboy Standing
by Zaida Bergroth (Flash Forward –award in Busan IFF 2009) and The Good
Son by Zaida Bergroth (Premiered in Toronto IFF 2011, Gold Hugo –award
at Chicago IFF), as well as numerous short films. The Princess of Egypt is
Forsström’s directorial feature film debut.
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FEATURE FILMS
SOLAR FILMS INC
DCP | 2.35:1 | 125’
PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
PURGE
PUHDISTUS
Aliide has experienced the horrors of the Stalin era and the deportation of
Estonians to Siberia but she, herself, must cope with the guilt of opportunism
and even manslaughter. One night in 1992 she finds a young woman in the
courtyard of her house; Zara has just escaped the clutches of the Russian mafia who had been holding her as a sex slave. Aliide later finds out that the girl
is related to her. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill one another’s motives; gradually their
stories emerge in a culmination of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and
loss during the worst years of Estonia’s Soviet occupation.
DIRECTOR: ANTTI JOKINEN SCRIPT: MARKO LEINO, ANTTI JOKINEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: RAUNO RONKAINEN F.S.C. EDITING:
KIMMO TAAVILA SOUND DESIGN: KIRKA SAINIO MUSIC: TUOMAS KANTELINEN SET DESIGN: TIINA PAAVILAINEN, KATRIN
SIPELGAS COSTUMES: ANNA VILPPUNEN CAST: LAURA BIRN, LIISI TANDEFELT, KRISTA KOSONEN, PETER FRANZÉN, TOMMI
KORPELA, KRISTJAN SARV, TOMI SALMELA PRODUCERS: MARKUS SELIN, JUKKA HELLE, KRISTIAN TASKA, MARIA AVDJUSHKO
PRODUCTION COMPANY: SOLAR FILMS INC. OY CO-PRODUCER: TASKA FILM PRODUCTION SUPPORT: FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION,
ESTONIAN FILM FOUNDATION, NORDISK FILM & TV FUND, MEDIA FINANCING TV COMPANIES: MTV3 FINLAND DISTRIBUTOR IN
FINLAND: NORDISK FILM OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: TRUSTNORDISK
ANTTI J JOKINEN (b. 1968) is a writer and director of film and television in
Finland and internationally. Throughout the past 20 years he has written and
developed features and produced and directed documentaries and series for
Finnish TV, as well as helmed ca. 100 commercials and music videos in the
US. His first US feature film is The Resident (2010), starring Hilary Swank and
Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
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FEATURE FILMS
AAMU FILMCOMPANY LTD
DCP | 1.77:1 | 96’
PREMIERE: FEBRUARY 1, 2013
THINGS WE DO
FOR LOVE
KAIKELLA RAKKAUDELLA
A shy man falls in love with a beautiful woman and the timing just couldn’t be
worse: her jealous, ex-con ex-husband has come to town looking to settle an
old score. What follows is a genuine mess that comes from all the things we
do for love.
DIRECTOR: MATTI IJÄS SCRIPT: HEIKKI VUENTO, AULI MANTILA, JP PASSI CINEMATOGRAPHY: RANE RONKAINEN EDITING:
JORMA HÖRI MUSIC: TIMO HIETALA SOUND DESIGN: KÖSSI VÄNTÄNEN SET DESIGN: KAISA MÄKINEN COSTUMES: SARI
SUOMINEN CAST: SAMPO SARKOLA, KRISTA KOSONEN, TOMMI KORPELA, HANNU-PEKKA BJÖRKMAN PRODUCER: AULI MANTILA,
JUSSI RANTAMÄKI, JOACHIM LYNG, MAGNUS RAMSDALEN, SVEIN ANDERSEN, KJETIL JENSBERG PRODUCTION COMPANY: AAMU
FILM COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: SWEER FILMS (NO), FILMCAMP (NO) PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM
FOUNDATION, NORDISK FILM OG TV FOND FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, SVT DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: THE WALT DISNEY
COMPANY NORDIC INTERNATIONAL SALES: THE YELLOW AFFAIR
MATTI IJÄS (b. 1950) is an acknowledged Finnish filmmaker with seven
feature films and some 30 TV-films to his name. Matti is a pioneer of Finnish
cinema and his recognisable style has reached huge audiences in a small
country like Finland. Ijäs has also received recognition in numerous festivals
with his films The Blue Corner (2002) and Blindfolded (1999).
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FEATURE FILMS
ARTISTA FILMI
DCP | 1.85:1 | 100’
PREMIERE: JANUARY 25, 2013
THE YEAR OF ‘85 ROCK YOUR MEMORIES
VUONNA ‘85
The Year of ’85 – Rock Your Memories is a story about a colorful group of guys
working at a machine shop who lost their youth but never found their adulthood. This is a film about dreams, an unquenchable thirst for life and a burning love in the middle of a fast-paced decade. Tommi Turmiola finds the love
of his life, Karoliina, on a summer-heated beach in Tampere. After only one
night together, their paths separate. Tommi decides to abandon his old life at
the factory and set out on a quest in his Datsun 100-A in search of his great
love. The music of the ´80s rocks us back to a decade when the only thing
longer than the long, hot summer was the mullet.
DIRECTORS: TIMO KOIVUSALO, RIKU SUOKAS SCRIPT: RIKU SUOKAS, HEIKKI SYRJÄ, HEIKKI VIHINEN EDITING: JYRKI LUUKKO,
TIMO KOIVUSALO CINEMATOGRAPHY: TERO MOLIN SOUND DESIGN: JYRKI LUUKKO SET DESIGN: MARKKU MYLLYMÄKI
COSTUMES: JAANA ARO MAKE-UP: ERJA MIKKOLA PRODUCER: TIMO KOIVUSALO PRODUCTION COMPANY: ARTISTA FILMI
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTOR IN FINLAND: BUENA VISTA INTERNATIONAL FINLAND
TIMO KOIVUSALO is a Finnish producer, director, writer and editor and the
owner of the production company Artista Filmi. He has directed 11 feature
films, both drama comedies such as The Leaning Tower and historic epochs
such as Sibelius. He has received several film awards in Finland. Koivusalo
has been a famous TV host and succeeded also in the music business. He has
composed music for 7 feature films.
RIKU SUOKAS has extensive entertainment and drama experience from TV,
theater and new media as a director, actor, comedian, writer and producer.
He directed and co-wrote the original stage musical The Year of ´85 and
currently works as the artistic director of one of Finland’s biggest theaters,
The Theatre of Tampere.
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FESTIVAL
CONTACTS FOR
DOCUMENTARY
FILMS
MARJA PALLASSALO
HEAD OF SHORT AND
DOCUMENTARY FILM PROMOTION
[email protected]
+358 9 6220 3021
OTTO SUURONEN
ASSISTANT OF SHORT AND
DOCUMENTARY FILM PROMOTION
[email protected]
+358 9 6220 3019
KATI NUORA
INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION
[email protected]
+358 9 6220 3020
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS, FAMILY FILMS
MRP MATILA RÖHR PRODUCTIONS
DCP | 1.85:1 | 75’
PREMIERE: DECEMBER 28, 2012
TALE OF A FOREST
METSÄN TARINA
Tale of a Forest is a film for the whole family about the unique Finnish forest
with its colouful and diverse life. The main characters of the film are the various inhabitants of the forest: the bears and the elk, the snakes and the owls,
the ants, the frogs and the flying squirrels, the ancient soul birds such as the
Siberian Jay, the Lapland Owl and many, many others.
DIRECTOR: VILLE SUHONEN, KIM SAARNILUOTO SCRIPT: VILLE SUHONEN, KIM SAARNILUOTO CINEMATOGRAPHY: HANNU
SIITONEN, MIKKO PÖLLÄNEN, TEEMU LIAKKA EDITING: KIM SAARNILUOTO MUSIC: PANU AALTIO SOUND DESIGN: JUHA
HAKANEN PRODUCER: MARKO RÖHR PRODUCTION COMPANY: MRP MATILA RÖHR PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE
FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM INTERNATIONAL
SALES: TBA
VILLE SUHONEN has worked as a film and culture critic as well as freelance
film director since 1986. He has directed over 20 films including documentaries, nature films, art films, dance and music videos as well as children’s films.
Suhonen’s films have been sold to over 60 countries and entered intor more
than 100 festivals. Ville Suhonen has also written three novels.
KIM SAARNILUOTO (b. 1975) has worked in television and feature film
industry since late 1990s as a director and editor. He has been involved in
dozens of TV series and documentaries. Tale of a Forest is Saarniluoto’s first
feature film.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
GIRON FILMI
DCP | 79’
PREMIERE: OCTOBER, 2012
11 IMAGES OF
A HUMAN
11 KUVAA IHMISESTÄ
This film examines man through the figures he has carved and painted on
stone. Cave paintings are mirrors through which ancient people are watching
us as we are actually watching them. Do we understand one another? Do we
see ourselves in the Stone Age paintings? This film is a journey into the past
and at the same time a portrait of a mankind, right here and right now.
DIRECTOR: ANASTASIA LAPSUI, MARKKU LEHMUSKALLIO SCRIPT: ANASTASIA LAPSUI, MARKKU LEHMUSKALLIO
CINEMATOGRAPHY: JOHANNES LEHMUSKALLIO EDITING: ANASTASIA LAPSUI, MARKKU LEHMUSKALLIO MUSIC: ANNA-KAISA
LIEDES, HEIKKI LAITINEN ANIMATION: LEENA JÄÄSKELÄINEN AND KAISA PENTTILÄ SOUND DESIGN: MARTTI TURUNEN
PRODUCER: MARKKU LEHMUSKALLIO PRODUCTION COMPANY: GIRON-FILMI OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM
FOUNDATION AND AVEK FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE TV 1 DOCUMENTARIES
ANASTASIA LAPSUI (b. 1944, Yamal Peninsula, Russia) The collaboration of
Nenets born Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio has lasted for almost two decades comprising 18 feature films. The couple’s films portraying traditional life
in the subarctic areas have earned them recognition and awards worldwide.
Lapsui has also worked as a radio journalist, editor and scriptwriter.
MARKKU LEHMUSKALLIO (b. 1938, Rauma, Finland) The grand-old-man
of the Finnish filmmaking and also one of the country’s best known directors,
Markku Lehmuskallio has directed films since 1973. The majority of Lehmuskallio’s work portrays traditional life in the Arctic hemisphere, and indigenous people and cultures play a leading role in his films. Local people performing in his
fictions give the films a touch of reality and verity that is seldom seen on screen.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
MADE OY
DCP | 16:9 | 80’
PREMIERE: MARCH 2013
ALCAN HIGHWAY
ALCAN HIGHWAY
VILLE TERVONEN
Alcan Highway is a film diary of one dream on its way to fulfillment. It is a road
movie of a man’s attempt to fix a truck, build a home on top of it and drive it
to Vancouver Island, a place where there isn’t yet a colony for the retired.
DIRECTOR: ALEKSI SALMENPERÄ SCRIPT: ALEKSI SALMENPERÄ CINEMATOGRAPHY: HENA BLOMBERG EDITING: SAMU HEIKKILÄ
MUSIC: VILLE ANSELMI TANTTU SOUND DESIGN: PERTTI VENETJOKI PRODUCER: ULLA SIMONEN PRODUCTION COMPANY: MADE
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: MJÖLK PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE
ALEKSI SALMENPERÄ is one of the most acclaimed and distinctive Finnish
filmmakers. Starting from the short film Ferry Go Round (2001), which was
selected to the Cannes film festival, Salmenperä’s films have received many
film industry awards. His films A Man’s Job and Producing Adults were
selected as official Oscar entries for Finland. In 2008 he was invited as a
member of EFA. His latest film Bad Family (2010) was selected into the
Berlinale Film Festival’s Panorama section.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
FOR REAL PRODUCTIONS
DCP | 16:9 | 90’
PREMIERE: FEBRUARY 2012
AMERICAN VAGABOND
AMERICAN VAGABOND
American Vagabond is a cinematic feature documentary film about kicked-out
queer youth in the shadows of a promised city. It’s a story of a boy raised in
small town America where homosexuality is so demonized that parents abandon their children over it.
DIRECTOR: SUSANNA HELKE CINEMATOGRAPHY: SUSANNA HELKE, MARKO JK LUUKONEN EDITING: NIELS PAGH ANDERSEN,
SUSANNA HELKE MUSIC: SAMULI KOSMINEN SOUND DESIGN: OLLI HUHTANEN CAST: JAMES TEMPLE, TYLER JOHNSON,
SANDY TEMPLE, JIM TEMPLE PRODUCER: CILLA WERNING PRODUCTION COMPANY: FOR REAL PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTION
COMPANY: RADIATOR FILM PRODUCTION SUPPORT: SES, AVEK, EURIMAGES, NFTF, DFI, MEDIA PROGRAMME FINANCING TV
COMPANIES: YLE, DR
SUSANNA HELKE is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and
professor based in Helsinki. Her films have been featured in the most
important international documentary film festivals, such as IDFA, Hotdocs
and Visions du Réel. Her work has received several awards and nominations:
including the nomination for the European Film Academy Arte award for
Best Documentary; the Best Scandinavian Documentary Award; and the
Best Documentary Film in the Finnish Academy Awards. Her films are poetic
reflections of the transcendence found in everyday moments in the lives of
ordinary people. The films play with the borders of documentary and fiction,
observational and reenacted documentary.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
HAKALAX PRODUCTIONS OY
DCP | 16:9 | 79’
PREMIERE: 2013
BODY OF GOD
BODY OF GOD
Body of God tells the story of how Fakir Musafar’s private experiments on
his body as a 12 year old boy in 1940s South Dakota expanded into a worldwide phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s. Nowadays piercing, branding
and tattoos are so popular (more than 50% of the 14-18 years old in Europe
and America are pierced or branded) that we tend to take their existence for
granted even though less than sixty years ago it was unthinkable for women in
the industrialist countries to even have pierced ears. Body of God is the first
documentary ever to depict the history of modern body modification from its
start in the early 1940s until its worldwide breakthrough in the 90s.
DIRECTOR: JOUNI HOKKANEN SCRIPT: JOUNI HOKKANEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: JUSSI KÄKKIS ARHINMÄKI EDITING: KIM FINN
MUSIC: PLANKWOOD JAMES III, SIMON BARTHOLOMEW SOUND DESIGN: JUSSI KNAAPILA CAST: FAKIR MUSAFAR, JIM WARD,
CYNTHIA WRIGHT, PAUL KING, TOD ALMIGHTY PRODUCER: JOHN HAKALAX, JOUNI HOKKANEN PRODUCTION COMPANY:
HAKALAX PRODUCTIONS OY CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: SOMA PROJECTS PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM
FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: HAKALAX PRODUCTIONS OY INTERNATIONAL
SALES: INDIGO FILM & TELEVISION LTD
JOUNI HOKKANEN is a documentarist, critic, journalist, and “freelance
everything” from Helsinki. After guerilla filmmaking around the Korean
Peninsula, Hokkanen created Pyongyang Trilogy, screened in all five
continents of the World.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
NAVY BLUE BIRD INC.
BLU-RAY, DIGITAL BETACAM, DVD | 16:9 | 87’
CHIMERAS
PREMIERE: 2013
DEBUT
CHIMERAS
Chimeras paints an image of Chinese society through the microcosm of its art
scene. Through two storylines it penetrates this world that is feverishly is looking for itself as we enter an era that some have impatiently prophesied as the
“Chinese century”.
DIRECTOR: MIKA MATTILA SCRIPT: MIKA MATTILA CINEMATOGRAPHY: MIKA MATTILA EDITING: MIKKO SIPPOLA SOUND
DESIGN: JUHA HAKANEN PRODUCER: MARKKU NISKA PRODUCTION COMPANY: NAVY BLUE BIRD OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT:
THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, AVEK FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, SVT
MIKA MATTILA was born in Helsinki, Finland 1974. He graduated
from Tampere School of Arts & Communications in 1998, majoring in
cinematography. Since then he has worked as a cinematographer in projects
of wide stylistic variety and content. He has gained experience in traditional
puppet animation, talk shows, short films as well as in documentaries. As a
director he has worked in corporate films, short film, music videos and a TVdocumentary. Chimeras is his first feature documentary. Since beginning of
2006 he has been living and working in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
KLAFFI PRODUCTIONS
DCP; DIGITAL BETACAM | 1.85:1 | 90’
PREMIERE: 22.3.2013 (SWE), 5.4.2013 (FIN)
FINNISH BLOOD
SWEDISH HEART
LAULU KOTI-IKÄVÄSTÄ
Kai Latvalehto has always felt like an outsider. As a child in the 1970’s, his Finnish
family lived in Gothenburg, southern Sweden, and he always felt like he was a second grade citizen; one of those who spoke a weird language too loudly and drank
too much alcohol. He was ashamed of being a Finn. In the early 1980’s, Kai’s father, Tauno, decided it was time they moved back to Finland. Kai felt like he didn’t
belong there as well. Now in his forties, after quitting his musical career and having a child of his own, Kai feels even more out of place. Kai decides to drive with
his father from Oulu in Northern Finland all the way down to Gothenburg to revisit
the places of his childhood. The journey of a father and son becomes a musical
delving into the emotional memory and the history of Finnish immigration in Sweden, an exploration of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism, and family secrets.
DIRECTOR: MIKA RONKAINEN SCRIPT: MIKA RONKAINEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: VESA TAIPALEENMÄKI EDITING: ÅSA MOSSBERG
MUSIC: ANNA JÄRVINEN, DARYA PAKARINEN, LOVE ANTELL, MARKUS FAGERVALL, MIRELLA HAUTALA, MÅNSKENSORKESTERN,
HANNU KIVIAHO, HEIKKI KIVIAHO, HARRI MÄNTY, JUKKA TAKALO SOUND DESIGN: ESA NISSI CAST: KAI LATVALEHTO, TAUNO
LATVALEHTO, OIVA LATVALEHTO PRODUCER: ULLA SIMONEN PRODUCTION COMPANY: KLAFFI PRODUCTIONS CO-PRODUCTION
COMPANY: HYSTERIA FILM PRODUCTION SUPPORT: FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, ESEK & LUSES, SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE, NFTF
FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, SVT, ARTE G.E.I.E. DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: PEK DISTRIBUTION IN SWEDEN: FOLKETS BIO
INTERNATIONAL SALES: [email protected]
MIKA RONKAINEN (b. 1970) has made award winning and acclaimed
documentaries like Freetime Machos (Selected for IDFA, Tribeca, Hot
Docs 2010), Screaming Men (Best Nordic Documentary 2003; Selected for
Sundance 2004), Our Summer, Car Bonus, Before the Flood, and Father’s
Day. He graduated in 1997 from the Oulu Institute of Arts and Design where
he studied film and video and works also as producer, editor, and composer.
Co-founder of Air Guitar World Championships, Ronkainen lives and works in
Oulu, northern Finland.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
FILMIMAA OY
DCP | 1.85:1 | 75’
PREMIERE: MARCH 15, 2013
HILTON!
HERE FOR LIFE
HILTON! - TÄÄLLÄ OLLAAN ELÄMÄ
There’s a block of rental flats in the suburbs of Eastern Helsinki called Hilton.
Its inhabitants are school dropouts and various drifters. Hilton! is a film about
being left in the shadows, the kick start in life is still to come. Through the
secret memories and dreams of Hilton!’s five protagonists, we witness the
power of true friendship.
DIRECTOR: VIRPI SUUTARI SCRIPT: VIRPI SUUTARI CINEMATOGRAPHY: HEIKKI FÄRM EDITING: JUSSI RAUTANIEMI MUSIC: MATTI
PENTIKÄINEN, ARTO TUUNELA, ATSO SOIVIO SOUND DESIGN: OLLI HUHTANEN PRODUCER: MARKKU TUURNA PRODUCTION
COMPANY: FILMIMAA LTD PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, AVEK, THE CHURCH MEDIA FOUNDATION
FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: NORDISK FILM
VIRPI SUUTARI is the writer and the director of such acclaimed documentary
films as Sin (1996), White Sky (1998), The Idle Ones (2001), and Along
the Road Little Child (2005), (co-directed with Susanna Helke). Her work
includes Auf Wiedersehen Finnland (2010) and Garden (work in progress).
Her films have been screened in retrospectives as well as garnering many
awards in various festivals. Suutari is a professor of art and a member of EFA.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
KINOSTO
DCP | 16:9 | 77’
PREMIERE: MARCH 1, 2013
HOTEL VIRU ORATORIO TO A BUILDING
VIRU – TARINOITA HOTELLISTA
This documentary explores the common history of three nations through one
building. The Finns built a hotel in Tallin that would become the symbol of
Estonia’s and Finland’s relationship in both good times and bad. And all under
the control of the KGB.
DIRECTOR: TARU MÄKELÄ, JOHANNA ONNISMAA, MARGIT KILUMETS SCRIPT: TARU MÄKELÄ, MARGIT KILUMETS
CINEMATOGRAPHY: JOUKO SEPPÄLÄ EDITING: TUULI KUITTINEN MUSIC: TIMO STEINER SOUND DESIGN: OLLI HUHTANEN
PRODUCTION COMPANY: KINOSTO OY CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: AMRION OÜ PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM
FOUNDATION, AVEK, ESTONIAN FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, ESTONIAN TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION IN
FINLAND: PEK
TARU MÄKELÄ (b.1959) directs both documentaries and features.
Her previous film Storage was a box office hit in Finland in 2012.
JOLLE ONNISMAA (b. 1967) is a graduate of Lahti Institute of
Design, where she studied photography and The University of
Art and Design Helsinki, where she studied documentary film
directing. Onnismaa works as a freelancer in both documentary
and feature films.
MARGIT KILUMETS (b. 1964) is an Estonian film director.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
MARIANNA FILMS
HD, DCP, DIGITAL BETACAM | 16:9 | 107’
PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
THE KING JARI LITMANEN
KUNINGAS LITMANEN
This is the story of professional football (soccer) player Jari Litmanen, often
referred as the “king” or “artist”. The film is about what it takes to make it in
football as well as a personal exploration revealing who Litmanen really is –
the family man, the human being. We also delve into the sacrifices he’s made
in his private life and, naturally, how football has impacted his world. We follow the footprints of his past to Lahti, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Liverpool
and meet his former team-mates, coaches and friends. The film also covers
the major turning points in his childhood, the highlights of his career, conflicts
with coaches and inevitable injuries. We are also left to ponder just when and
how Litmanen will finally end his long and distinguished career.
DIRECTOR: ARTO KOSKINEN SCRIPT: MIKA KAURISMÄKI, ARTO KOSKINEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: TAHVO HIRVONEN EDITING:
KAUKO LINDFORS MUSIC: JYRKI RAHKONEN SOUND DESIGN: JYRKI RAHKONEN CAST: JARI LITMANEN, STEVEN GERRARD,
DENNIS BERGKAMP, EDWIN VAN DER SAR, FRANK DE BOER, MARC OVERMARS, CARLES PUYOL, XAVI, ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC, LUIS
VAN GAAL AND MANY OTHER FOOTBALL LEGENDS PRODUCER: MIKA KAURISMÄKI PRODUCTION COMPANY: MARIANNA FILMS OY
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, AVEK FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND:
FS FILM OY INTERNATIONAL SALES: THE YELLOW AFFAIR
ARTO KOSKINEN (b. 1962) studied directing in the film department at
the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki from 1985-93 and directed his
first feature film Kesän viimeinen päivä in 1992. Since then he has made
numerous short films focusing on social issues. The Handcuff King (2002)
was his second full-length feature film.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
UNIFILM OY
DCP | 2.35:1 | 80’
DEBUT
PREMIERE: APRIL, 2013
MY STUFF
TAVARATAIVAS
Meet Petri Luukkainen, 26, a man in the midst of an existential crisis. Petri
arrives at the idea that his happiness might be found by rebuilding his
everyday existence. What does he really need in life? He places all of his
possessions into storage, and decides to bring back only one item per day.
Buck naked in his Helsinki flat is a whole other story – not a pretty one but
pretty damn fun to watch.
DIRECTOR: PETRI LUUKKAINEN SCRIPT: PETRI LUUKKAINEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: JESSE JOKINEN EDITING: ALTTI SJÖGREN
MUSIC: TIMO LASSY SOUND DESIGN: KYÖSTI VÄNTÄNEN PRODUCER: ANSSI PERTTALA PRODUCTION COMPANY: UNIKINO
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: ELÄVÄKUVA PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, AVEK FINANCING TV
COMPANIES: YLE INTERNATIONAL SALES: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES
PETRI LUUKKAINEN (b. 1984) lives in Helsinki. My Stuff is his first feature
length documentary.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
MADE OY
DCP | 16:9 | 74’
PREMIERE: MARCH, 2013
NEIGHBOURS
NAAPURIT
World peace is something we all hope for. But when it comes to living together
even the smallest differences in behavior or culture may raise seemingly unsolvable disagreements, even more so if you are a Finn living on a block of flats.
DIRECTOR: TUIJA HALTTUNEN SCRIPT: TUIJA HALTTUNEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: TUIJA HALTTUNEN EDITING: RIITTA POIKSELKÄ
MUSIC: ILKKA HEINONEN SOUND DESIGN: JANNE LAINE PRODUCER: ULLA SIMONEN PRODUCTION COMPANY: MADE
PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION, AVEK FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE
TUIJA HALTTUNEN is a documentarian concentrating on exploring every
day subjects in Finnish society. She has made more than 20 documentaries
and short films since the mid nineties and is currently working as a provincial
artist for the Arts Council of Häme.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
ART FILMS PRODUCTION AFP
DCP | 1.85:1 | 119’
PREMIERE: OCTOBER 5, 2012
WHEN HEROES LIE
SINIVALKOINEN VALHE
When an entire group of Finnish skiers tested positive for doping in the Lahti
World Championships of 2001, it revealed the systematic and long-term history
of the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in the sport. The investigative
documentary portrays, through the lens of sport, the way our society creates
the foundation for lies and double standards in our attempts to win. It also raises the question of whether the distortions in sport are a reflection of the distortions in society in general: is society working under the same rules as sport?
DIRECTOR: ARTO HALONEN SCRIPT: ARTO HALONEN, JOUNI K. KEMPPAINEN, KEVIN FRAZIER CINEMATOGRAPHY: HANNUPEKKA VITIKAINEN, ARTO HALONEN EDITING: ANTTI TUOMIKOSKI, SANNA LIINAMAA MUSIC: TAPANI RINNE SOUND DESIGN:
MARTTI TURUNEN PRODUCER: ARTO HALONEN PRODUCTION COMPANY: ART FILMS PRODUCTION AFP OY PRODUCTION
SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE FINNISH BROADCASTING COMPANY, NORWEGIAN
BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NRK) DISTRIBUTION IN FINLAND: FUTURE FILM DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL SALES: ART
FILMS PRODUCTION
ARTO HALONEN has directed numerous films, including the fiction feature
film Princess and the documentary films Shadow of the Holy Book, Pavlov’s
Dogs, Karmapa and the Tank Man. Halonen’s latest documentary film When
Heroes Lie (2012) received exceptionally strong praise from the critics. In
2005, Halonen was awarded the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in
the arts given by the Ministry of Culture and the Finnish State. Among other
important prizes, he has received the Humanitarian Award of the European
Union (1998), the Finnish National Mental Health Prize (2010) and the City
of Helsinki Culture prize (2010) officially recognizing him for a remarkable
artistic career. Halonen has also been awarded the Civil Action Prize of the
Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health.
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DOCUMENTARY FILMS
OCTOBER OY
DCP, HDCAM | 16:9 | 75’
PREMIERE: SPRING 2013
WOLFMAN
HUKKAMIES
Wolfman is a film about Seppo Ronkainen, a man who has taught himself the
language and ways of wolves, having faced them in the wilderness and witnessing their fates. The film is based on his video diaries collected over the
course of 13 years. The unique material tells the intertwining stories of a man,
wolves and dogs. It is a portrait of the man and eight individual wolves. But
most of all, it is a story about the contradictory relationship between people
and an endangered species.
DIRECTOR: JUHA SUONPÄÄ CINEMATOGRAPHY: HEIKKI FÄRM F.S.C., SEPPO RONKAINEN, KATJA MOISIO, JUHA SUONPÄÄ
EDITING: TUULI KUITTINEN MUSIC: JOEL HYPÉN SOUND DESIGN: HEIKKI INNANEN PRODUCER: TIMO VIERIMAA EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER: JOONAS BERGHÄLL PRODUCTION COMPANY: OKTOBER OY PRODUCTION SUPPORT: THE FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION,
AVEK FINANCING TV COMPANIES: YLE, ARTE
JUHA SUONPÄÄ (b. 1963) is a film director, photographic artist, researcher
and teacher. He has a master’s degree in Education from the University of
Tampere and Doctor of Arts from University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki. In
his doctoral thesis Suonpää explored social meanings of nature photography.
Besides his work on photography, Juha has directed documentary films
connected to the theme of nature. In 1998 he brought a video camera to
Seppo Ronkainen with the idea of collecting material on wolves. 12 years
later, intent on realizing the story of man and wolves, he began work on the
film Wolfman based on the material in January 2011.
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