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Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter von Bagh

A film about the monster of Lapland, Mr. Lordi, who after winning the Eurovision Song Contest loses everything, almost everything.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mr. Lordi

In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kaddour Errahmany

Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akseli Anttila

The story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.

Genre: Music

Cast: Pekka Aarnio

How to Fix the World? is a comprehensive and informative documentary about direct action in the 1990s and 2000s, directed by Jouko Aaltonen. In the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kukka Ranta

A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martta Koskinen

A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ivanna Yaptune

A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.

Genre: Documentary

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A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign...

Genre: Drama

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This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Grigori Bahharev

Peter von Bagh's documentary about Juhani Aho and people around him.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erja Manto

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter von Bagh

During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vilma Melasniemi

The action in the film takes place in the Far East, on an uninhabited island called Rikord in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan. The lead...

Genre: Documentary

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For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alma Pöysti

A film about a woman who doesn’t exist. Moroccan Hind was raped and consequently denied an official identity – she has no other choice...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hanan Ryahi

In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey...

Genre: Documentary

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Strangers in the Dark is an experimental film about how light pollution makes a glow-worm’s love life a living hell. Combining different...

Genre: Documentary

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A documentary on the executions that took place during and after the Finnish civil war in 1918.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Niko Saarela