Finnish Documentary Films 2006

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F I N N I S H
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Contents
Feature Length Documentaries
Along the Road Little Child
Anni from Paanajärvi
Cosmic Play
Nesting Tree, The
Paper Promises
Pavlov’s Dogs
Revolution
Saami
Sonic Mirror
Väinö Auer (1895–1981)
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Documentaries
(length between 36–60 minutes)
About a Farm
Borgå Year
Campaign, The
Family of One
Fourth Chair, The
Horse Effect, The
Memories Denied
Take Me in Your Arms
Y in Vyborg
Zahara & Urga
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Short Documentaries
(length 35 minutes or less)
Aarne
Hercules
My Economic Life
Queue, The
Spring
War
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Contacts
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Directors, script:
F I N N I S H
D O C U M E N T A R Y
2005 | 35 mm | 1:1,85 |
Dolby Digital | 79’
Susanna Helke & Virpi Suutari
Cinematography:
Heikki Färm
Editing:
Kimmo Taavila
Sound design:
[
P i t k i n
t i e t ä
p i e n i
l a p s i
Music:
Iiro Ollila
Producers:
Ulla Simonen, Cilla Werning
Executive producer:
Lasse Saarinen
Production:
Kinotar Oy
Directors Susanna Helke and Virpi Suutari have
worked together since 1993. Their film making
career together includes, for example, the following
films: The Idle Ones (Joutilaat, 2001) – a documentary about boys getting a grip on their lives; A Soap
Dealer’s Sunday (Saippuakauppiaan sunnuntai, 1998)
– a documentary about getting lost in time; and
White Sky (Valkoinen taivas, 1998) – a documentary
essay about adapting to destruction.
Co-producer:
asterisk film
The Finnish Film Foundation,
Danish Film Institute,
Nordic Film & TV Fund
Financing TV companies:
YLE, ARTE, SVT
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Abdi (15), Nasteho (11), and Bisharo (9) are refugees of the civil war in Somalia. In the wood
outside their suburban block of flats, they meet a Finnish girl Julia (13) and her younger siblings.
They all are ordinary children but outcasts in their own way. The games they play reflect the
clashes of Western and Islamic cultures, but the question of God or Allah is far less important
than keeping the gang together. The film is a story of the security and grace that people receive
from each other.
Olli Huhtanen
Production support:
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Along the Road Little Child
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2006 | Digital Beta, Beta SP, DVD |
4:3 | Stereo | 122’
Director, cinematography:
Lasse Naukkarinen
Script:
Lasse Naukkarinen,
Markku Nieminen
Editing:
Tuuli Kuittinen
Sound design:
Heikki Innanen
[
P a a n a j ä r v e n
A n n i
]
For six years, the Kemijoki-river of Viena has led Lasse Naukkarinen to follow the fate of a unique
Karelian village in northwest Russia. The film follows the restoration and revival of the traditional
village of Paanajärvi through the eyes of Anni Popova, the soul of the village.
The threat of the village submerging in the reservoir of the Valkeakoski power plant has
haunted Anni and the villagers for over forty years. Ten years ago in response to the threat, the
Finnish Juminkeko Foundation began implementing measures to save the village. The Paanajärvi
village was accepted on the list of the hundred most endangered cultural sites in the world which,
for example, includes the ruins of Pompeii and the temple of Taj Mahal.
The continued existence of the village was hindered, but also protected by a building prohibition. Due to the plans for the power plant, the beautiful and architecturally valued houses had
deteriorated considerably. With the help of Juminkeko, the villagers have been educated, houses
restored and new plans drawn up for the future.
Music:
Carl-Johan Häggman
Lasse Naukkarinen
Producer:
Lasse Naukkarinen (b. 1942) is a veteran documentary filmmaker
who has made more than thirty films. After his political films of the
1970s, e.g. Solidarity (Solidaarisuus, 1970), he observed the society
of the 1980s and 90s through e.g. his films No Comments (1984) and
Dog Trails (Koiranpolkuja , 1995). After the fascinating portraits e.g.
Artist’s Life (Taiteilijaelämää , 1999), Miina! (Miinavaara! , 2001) and
Schoolboy’s Life (Koululaisen elämää , 2002) the director made, based
on his own experiences, Once Upon a Time There Was a Utopia
(Olipa kerran Utopia, 2004), a trip to the soul of the 60s and 70s.
Lasse Naukkarinen
Production:
Ilokuva, Naukkarinen & Co.
Production support:
AVEK, Juminkeko Foundation
Financing TV company:
YLE TV2 Documentaries
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Anni from Paanajärvi
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2005 | Digital Betacam | 16:9 |
Stereo | 72’20’’
[
Ko s m i n e n
n ä y t e l m ä
]
Cosmic Play is a documentary film about Kati Sinenmaa’s pursuit of a life outside society. In spring
Director, script, cinematography:
Jouni Hiltunen
Editing:
Anne Lakanen, Jouni Hiltunen
Sound design:
Janne Jankeri
Music:
2001, she gave up her rented Helsinki city apartment and moved to a small piece of woodland
right in the middle of the busiest intersections of railroads and bridges in Pasila, Helsinki.
Kati builds a massive wall against society from stones. The stronghold becomes the very image
of her soul: the inner being of an artist has been taken out, yet society wants to put it in again.
Kati Sinenmaa does not adapt to the lifestyle expected by society. She does not hold a job, she
neither rents an apartment or receives any support from society. All her clothes and meals are
donations or picked from trash cans. She tries to be free and boundless. However, a free Internet
service is the link that binds her back to society.
In the film we follow Kati’s life for four years. Living in the woods is full of challenges. The society Kati attempts to leave behind, does not leave her in peace. Kati’s life gets very particular. She
pours out everything on her web-pages and also in an abundance of dozens of pages of replies to
the demands of the society. At the same time, she starts to live in the Internet, in the reality of the
mind, in the physical reality and in the spirit world in between.
Markku Kopisto
Producer:
Jouni Hiltunen
Jouni Hiltunen
Jouni Hiltunen (b. in 1964) is a documentary film director
from Helsinki. He has worked in various fields of the film
industry since 1990 and has directed 17 documentary films.
His documentary film about three Russian prisoners for life,
Blatnoi Mir (2001), has been awarded at both Finnish and
international festivals. At the moment, Hiltunen works as a
producer-director for his own company, Katharsis Films Oy.
Production:
Katharsis Films Oy
Production support:
AVEK
YLE TV1
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Cosmic Play
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2005 | 35 mm, Beta | 1:1,85 |
Stereo | 90’
Director, script:
[
P e s ä p u u
]
The children of the Kallio district have grown up. Everyone must find their place in society or
others will draw attention to it.
The battle for fame, money and knowledge is as hard as the battle against illness and displacement.
The Nesting Tree tells of the world of these young adults and their yearning for freedom and
their own space.
This film by Ilkka Ruuhijärvi and Ulla Turunen continues the story of the lives of the children
in this eastern part of central Helsinki which began in 1985.
Ilkka Ruuhijärvi & Ulla Turunen
Cinematography:
Ilkka Ruuhijärvi
Editing:
Ilkka Ruuhijärvi
Sound design:
Ilkka Riihijärvi & Ulla Turunen
Ulla Turunen
Ilkka Riihijärvi (b. 1963) and Ulla Turunen
(b. 1961), both MA / The University of Art and
Design Helsinki, have been making documentaries together since 1985. Among them are 12
full-length documentaries for television – for
example, As it Happens (Kun se tapahtuu, 1986).
Prizes and awards: 17. Tampere Film Festival:
Special prize / the national competition, State
award from the Ministry of Education 1987.
Producer:
Ilkka Ruuhijärvi
Production:
RT Documentaries Oy
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation
YLE TV1 Co-productions
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The Nesting Tree
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Director & script team:
Issu Huovinen, Leo Märkälä,
Heta Partanen, Ilona Reiniharju,
Eija Romppanen, Mika Suikkanen,
Pentti Taipale
Team leader:
Heikki Ahola
Cinematography:
F I N N I S H
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2005 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 97’
Music:
Markku Anttila, Kimmo Jaatinen,
Sami Kuokkanen, Antti Lempiäinen,
Markku Parikka, Pasi Riiali,
Petri Salmi, Janne Vainiomäki
Editing:
Jukka Nykänen
Sound design:
Heikki Kossi
Timo Peltola
Producer:
Hannu Niikko
Production:
Paper Promises
[
Ko n e
17
]
The Voikkaa paper mill has formed slowly along a dark flowing river. There are residences on
both sides of the river. Everyone seems to have a view on the factory. The symbiosis of people
and factory is strong. We are at the heart of the world’s largest paper industry centre. However,
the factory lives in the early 21st century when the paths of national industries and international
capital have inevitable clashes. That also affects the people of this factory. In April of 2004 paper
machine 17 is shut down – for good.
That machine had produced paper non-stop for almost seventy years. When it stops, the lives
of a hundred and sixty people change. Some find new employment at nearby Kuusankoski factories, and some retire but there are those who fear they will become unemployed. The shutting
down of machine 17 reflects on the whole community. The drama unfolds in homes, restaurants,
streets and people’s minds. Self-respect, self-worth and their loss, adapting to new situations or
giving in to the feeling of loss are the basic themes of this film.
The community formed around the machine disintegrates, the tone of friendships changes,
the inner rhythm of families is altered, the whole basic structure of life has to find a new form.
This is a story of inevitable change where substantial economic events clash with individuals
and the small. All this time, the Kymijoki river flows by indifferent to these events. People cross
the river by bridge every day. People change but the river remains the same.
Videomakers Oy
Production support:
The directors
AVEK, European Social Fund,
Lahti Institute of Design
A group of seven directors made this film: Issu Huovinen, Leo Märkälä, Heta Partanen, Ilona Reiniharju, Eija Romppanen, Mika Suikkanen, Pentti Taipale. This is the first big documentary for all
of them. Some of them are students, some already have more experience in the field. The group
and the topic of the film were borne out of The Other Finland (Toinen Suomi) training project.
YLE
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Arto Halonen
F I N N I S H
2006 | 16:9 | Dolby Digital | 67’19’’
Director, script:
Cinematography:
Vladimir Bashta, Dmitri Avrorin,
Arto Halonen, Igor Tsernysov
Editing:
Sanna Liinamaa
Sound design:
Martti Turunen
Music:
Tapani Rinne
Producer:
Arto Halonen
[
P a v l o v i n
k o i r a t
]
These days, even poverty can be bought. A Russian psychologist, Sergei Knyatzev, provides the
experience of being a beggar to wealthy people who have tried everything and are looking for
something new.
But this is only one of the games that this psychologist has developed. He specializes in roleplaying and mental manipulation, starting with animals and small groups of people, and climaxing with his mass control of 7000 individuals.
The film speaks in an interesting mannerism of our time: where nothing is enough, and people
try to acquire both basic and extreme experiences by buying them. Everything’s for sale. Richness
often alienates people at the expense of a balance in life. That in turn opens out a market for any
entrepreneur with even the slightest understanding of the human psyche, just as it does for Sergei
Knyatzev. Through these games he is also evoking people’s attitudes and society’s structure.
Production:
Art Films production AFP Oy
Arto Halonen
Co-producer:
Arto Halonen has directed numerous films, including e.g. A Dreamer and
the Dreamtribe (Unelmoija ja unikansa, 1998), Karmapa: A Voyage on the Roof
of the World (Karmapa – Matka mailman katolla, 1998), The Stars’ Caravan
(Taivasta vasten, 2000), The Tank Man (Tynnyrimies, 2004), Conquistadors
of Cuba (Kuuban valloittajat, 2005) and The Legend (Legenda, 2005).
He is the owner of film production company, Art Films production Ltd,
and also produces films. He has acted in 2000–2003 as the chairman and
a member of the executive committee of the Documentary Guild, a parent
organisation of documentary makers. He is also the founder and festival
director (2001–2004) of DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.
Studio East-West
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK,
The Nordic Film & TV Fund
YLE TV2 Documentaries,
Radiotelevision Svizzera di lingua
italiana (TSI), Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), Sveriges Television AB
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Pavlov’s Dogs
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[
Ke n e n
j o u k o i s s a
s e i s o t
–
m u s i i k k i e l o k u v a
]
Revolution is a documentary musical about the 70’s generation’s fight for a better world. Socialism
Director, script:
Jouko Aaltonen
Cinematography:
Jussi Eerola, Timo Peltonen
seemed like a real alternative. The movement offered a whole unified world where it would be
easy to be on the right side – against anything old and reactionary. Songs played a central role in
this revolution. Hundreds of song groups sprung up. The songs told stories of battles, solidarity,
socialism, Vietnam, Chile. Now middle-aged former revolutionaries return to their combat songs,
singing in the environments revealing their present status and work places. Music creates some
distance and in many ways, depicts the experiences and spirit of the era. The music also symbolizes the pomposity and rhetoric often so blatantly and comically at odds with reality and everyday
life. What has happened to the idealism of youth?
Editing:
Samu Heikkilä
Sound design:
Paul Jyrälä
Jouko Aaltonen
Producer:
AVEK, ESEK
Jouko Aaltonen (b. 1956) has directed a wide range
of documentaries on various topics and environments
ranging from Siberian Taiga to the diplomatic society
of New Delhi. His latest work includes the films:
Life Saver (Hengenpelastaja, 2005), Ambassadors
(Lähettiläät, 2004), Road of Hunger (Nälän tie, 1999),
Constructing and Destroying (Rakenna ja tuhoa, 1998),
In the Arm of Buddha and the Drum
(Rummun ja Buddhan välissä, 1997).
Pertti Veijalainen
Production:
Illume Oy
Production support:
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Revolution
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2006 | 35 mm | 16:9 |
Dolby Digital | ~75’
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2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | ~75’
Directors:
Anastasia Lapsui &
Markku Lehmuskallio
[
S a a m e l a i n e n
]
The Saami are a people spread over 4 different countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
They have no state of their own. The Saami are Europe’s last aboriginal people and they speak 9
different languages. They have lived off the land and nature has provided for them.
But yesterday is not today. People have left their homes and followed work into the big cities.
This film takes a look at the identity of these people. Has the change of life-style and surroundings changed the Saami way of looking at the world? In the film people try to answer the questions: Who am I?
Cinematography:
Johannes Lehmuskallio
Editing:
Anastasia Lapsui,
Johannes Lehmuskallio,
Markku Lehmuskallio
Sound design:
Antero Honkanen
Anastasia Lapsui
Producer:
Giron Filmi Oy
Born in the Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, in 1944.
Has been a radio journalist in Salekhard for 26 years,
working on a Nenets language program.
Has directed since 1990.
Production support:
Markku Lehmuskallio
Born in Rauma in 1938.
Graduated as forest technician in 1963.
Worked in films professionally since 1969.
Liisa Holmberg
Production:
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2006 | 35mm, Digibeta | 1:1,66 |
Dolby SR and 5.1 | ~ 90’
is a musical documentary film presenting the journey of the legendary drummer
Billy Cobham into several different musical cultures.
Sonic Mirror shows the sometimes contradictory and sometimes surprising expectations and
reactions from audiences. The film is shot in Finland, Switzerland, USA, Brazil etc.
Sonic Mirror
Director:
Mika Kaurismäki
Script:
Mika Kaurismäki, Marco Forster
Cinematography:
Jacques Cheuiche
Editing:
Oli Weiss
Sound design:
Uwe Dresch
Music:
Mika Kaurismäki
Billy Cobham etc.
Mika Kaurismäki’s first film The Liar (Valehtelija, 1980) marked
the beginning of cinema for the Kaurismäki brothers and started
a new era in Finnish cinema. Mika has since directed films all
around the world with an international crew and cast. His work includes, for example, the fictional films The Worthless (Arvottomat,
1982), Rosso (1985), Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987), Amazon
(1990), Zombie and the Ghost Train (Zombie ja kummitusjuna, 1991),
LA Without a Map (1998), Honey Baby (2004) and three documentaries shot in Brazil: Tigrero – A Film That Was Never Made (1994,
with Sam Fuller and Jim Jarmusch), Sound of Brazil (Moro no Brasil,
2002) and Brasileirinho (2005).
Producers:
Mika Kaurismäki, Marco Forster
Production:
Marianna Films
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, ESEK
YLE Co-productions
International sales:
Wide Management
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Sonic Mirror
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2005 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 74’50’’
is a documentary film about the life and work of the Finnish scientist
Väinö Auer in Finland and in Latin America. Auer was geographer, explorer and above all swamp
geologist. His swamp auger reached the central, post ice age layers of earth’s climate history in
Canada, Finland, Tierra del Fuego and Patagony. The film travels in time to the different stages
of Auer’s life: in the swamps and wilderness of Finland, the peculiar shallow swamps of Tierra
del Fuego and the Patagonyan pampas that are whipped by dusty winds. The documentary film is
based on Auer’s diary entries and articles. Through them, it also takes a tour of dramatic human
history in the 20th century. The journey of a pioneering climatologist from nationalism to global
awareness and concern about the development of the relationship between man and nature.
Director, script:
Mikko Piela
Cinematography:
Tahvo Hirvonen
Editing:
Timo Linnasalo
Sound design:
Juha Hakanen
Mikko Piela
Music:
Mikko Piela (b. 1956) has studied law, aesthetics,
ethnology, theatre and philosophy at the University
of Helsinki. In the 1980s, he wrote film criticism for
several newspapers in Finland and also for the film
magazine Filmihullu. From the beginning of the 1990s,
he has made documentary films, e.g.
Women At The University (Naisia yliopistolla, 1990),
Milkpayday (Maitotilipäivä, 1991), The Last Livonians?
(Viimeiset liiviläiset?, 1995) and Stones (Kivet, 2000).
Miika Snåre, Mikko Helenius
Producer:
Mika Ritalahti, Niko Ritalahti
Production:
Silva Mysterium Oy
Production support:
AVEK
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Stereo | 52’
Director, script:
Mervi Junkkonen
Cinematography:
Mervi Junkkonen,
Vesa Taipaleenmäki
[
H i l j a i n e n
t i l a
]
In the autumn of 2002, the fifty head cattle of Junkkonen farm are taken away by a slaughter
truck, and the cowshed falls silent. The wheels of development turn, but two middle-aged people
are left behind. The small municipality of Oulunsalo is planning to build factories and industrial
parks next to the airfield, as well as a road that would chop up the farmers’ fields. The old way
of living is dying. The Junkkonens are leading a quiet life and contemplating the future. When
their youngest child falls seriously ill the family awakes and reprioritises everything. The documentary is director Mervi Junkkonen’s journey to her birthplace and to the history that she will
not continue.
Editing:
Tuuli Kuittinen
Sound design:
Esa Nissi
Music:
Girilal Baars
Mervi Jukkonen
Producers:
Mervi Junkkonen (born 1975) has studied
documentary directing and editing at the
University of Art and Design Helsinki, UIAH.
She has made the films Barbeiros (2001),
Saana (Saanan tahto, 2003) and Aarne (2005)
Barbeiros has won several prizes at film
festivals around the world. About a Farm has
won Finland’s State Quality Award, Risto Jarva
Award and Yamagata Award of Excellence.
Kimmo Paananen,
Mika Ronkainen
Production:
Klaffi Productions
Production support:
AVEK, Media Centre POEM
YLE TV1
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About a Farm
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B o r g å m å t t
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P o r v o o n m i t a l l a
]
The 30-year-long battle of Porvoo bridge turns into a small town history with its changes and
everyday life. A hilarious story about uncontrolled development and controlled destruction in
a medieval city, where everything is the object of complaints – this is known as the “Porvoo
disease”.
Director, script, editing:
Peter Lindholm
Cinematography:
Raimo Uunila
Sound design:
Tero Malmberg
Music:
Mika Tyyskä, Petski
Producer:
Peter Lindholm
Peter Lindholm
Peter Lindholm (born 1960) graduated as a film
director in 1990. He has directed feature films
such as Kites Over Helsinki (Drakarna över
Helsingfors, 2001), Anita (1994), TV-movies and
programmes – for example, Sincerely Yours in
Cold Blood (Kylmäverisesti sinun, 2000) – and
commercials. He has also taught at the University
of Art and Design in Helsinki and at the Theatre
Academy of Finland.
Production:
Petfilms Oy
Production support:
AVEK, Pro Film
YLE FST Co-productions,
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2005 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 53’
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2005 | DVCPRO | 16:9 |
Stereo | 49’45’’
Directors, script:
Pasi Riiali & Mikko Peltonen
Cinematography:
Pasi Riiali, Kimmo Yläkäs
Editing:
Jari Heikkinen
[
Va a l i t a i s t o
]
A documentary of the campaign of a local election candidate. Eetu Kirppu is a first-time candidate, campaigning for a seat on the municipal council of Miehikkälä. There is more than one way
to go when Eetu and his nimble-tongued campaign manager Esko Rikkola set out on a tour of the
community to persuade voters. According to Esko’s calculations, Eetu will need 30 votes to get a
seat. The men go from house to house and discuss things with potential voters, organize a rally
including a fire artwork, and meet the Minister of Regional and Municipal Affairs. The eventful
campaign culminates on election day, as the credibility of the two is to be weighed. For Eetu,
responsibilities are growing at home too – his partner Suvi is expecting their first child, which is
to be born around election day.
Seasoned with humour, The Campaign is a film of influence, responsibility and friendship in an
outlying Finnish community.
Sound design:
Arttu Horttanainen
Pasi Riiali
Music:
Production:
Pasi Riiali is a thirty-year-old producer/director working at
the Mediacenter production company. He graduated from
Tornio Institute of Art and Media in 1999. He has experience
in making all kinds of TV programmes and commercials.
The Campaign is his first documentary film.
Media Center Kotka Oy
Mikko Peltonen
Production support:
28-year-old Mikko Peltonen is from Kotka. He studied at
Jyväskylä University and has previously worked as a reporter
and director in various TV productions. The Campaign is his
directorial debut in documentaries.
Simo Helkala
Producer:
Pasi Riiali
AVEK
YLE TV2
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2005 | Digibeta, Dv-cam |
16:9 Anamorphic | Stereo | 49’
[
Y h d e n
h e n g e n
p e r h e
]
Family of One is a film of the generation of the uncommitted. It centres on a stage in life when peo-
Director, script:
Mia Halme
Cinematography:
Tuomo Hutri
Editing:
Helena Öst
Sound design:
Janne Laine
Music:
ple are independent, ambitious and always ready to take off. The unbearable lightness of living!
There is so much within reach that choosing is hard and choices have to be controlled.
I have trouble living in the moment. I keep thinking about what the future will hold.
Work is demanding. You have to continuously be willing to change and move up in your career. But where are we trying to get to? People are busy all the time, always doing something, but
does anything actually happen? For the main character friends are a safety net – and she has a
lot of them. In the middle of all the changes, friends bring a sense of security and with them new
rituals can be created. Closeness can be summoned up in a text message: needcompanybadly.
If you think about commitment, you panic.
The people in the film are no longer young, but they’re not ready to settle down with a family yet.
There seems to be no time or place – or courage – for commitment. Would commitment reduce
freedom or would there in fact be more freedom through attachment to something permanent?
Family of One is a documentary about the conflicts of freedom.
Ville A. Tanttu
Producers:
Mia Halme
Petri Jokiranta & Tero Kaukomaa
Mia Halme (born 1968) has graduated as a
documentary director from the University of
Art and Design Helsinki. Her previous films are
Mother Brave (Omalla vastuulla, 2002), Carnival
Spirit – Helsinki in the Year 2000 (Halki kaupungin
– Helsinki vuonna 2000, 2002), Relatively Speaking
(Sukulaisia, 2001) and Erotic Vivica (1999).
Production:
Blind Spot Pictures Oy
Production support:
YLE TV1
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2006 | Digibeta |
16:9 Anamorphic | Stereo | 52’
[
N e l j ä s
t u o l i
]
is a documentary about negotiations and diplomacy. It is a documentary about
the fears and emotions of three men trying to make peace in the Balkans.
By March 1999, it seemed as if the world was facing a very serious conflict in Kosovo – conflict
that in the worst scenario could turn into a third world war.
As a last ultimatum Nato began bombing Serbia. One last try to reconcile the antagonists
through diplomacy was made. On the initiative of the superpowers a delegation was appointed.
The task was to find a strategy such that Milosevic would surrender. The delegation consisted of
Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland, Viktor Chernomyrdin, personal envoy of the Russian president, and Strobe Talbott, US deputy of State.
The Troika gathered four times in May 1999 and by June 3rd Milosevic signed the proposal.
The meetings with the Troika and the final meeting with Milosevic will form the spine of our narration told by Ahtisaari, Talbott and Chernomyrdin.
The Fourth Chair
Director, script:
Charlotte Airas
Cinematography:
Timo Peltonen
Editing:
Kimmo Kohtamäki
Producer:
Kaarle Aho
Production:
Charlotte Airas
Making Movies Oy
Charlotte Airas has twenty years of experience
in filmmaking and journalism in Finland and
France.
Her documentaries have been broadcasted
in all of the Nordic countries.
Production support:
AVEK,
Det Nordiske Samarbeidsfondet,
Media+
YLE TV2, FST, Arte, TSR Switzerland,
NRK Norway, ETV Estonia, LRT
Lithuania
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The Fourth Chair
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Stereo | 52’
Director, script:
Jolle Onnismaa
Cinematography:
[
Ta a k a n k a n t a j a
]
A documentary film about horse riding as a treatment for mental patients
Paloniemi psychiatric hospital has a unique horse riding therapy unit and small stables in the
vicinity of the hospital. The Horse Effect follows two people, a little girl and an adult man, going for
therapy and their process towards a better tomorrow. Pahe, a Finnish Horse, is capable of special
interaction with his subjects and tries to help them.
Marita Hällfors
Editing:
Tuuli Kuittinen
Sound design:
Olli Huhtanen
Music:
Timo Hietala
Producers:
Ulla Simonen, Cilla Werning
Jolle Onnismaa
Executive producer:
Jolle Onnismaa (b. 1967 in Oulu) is a documentary film
director and photographer. Onnismaa studied photography at Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design 1987–91
and documentary film making in University of Art and
Design in Helsinki 1993 – . She has worked in the film
industry for several years as a camera-assistant, still
photographer, and assistant director. The Horse Effect is
her graduation film for UIAH – University of Industrial
Arts Helsinki.
Lasse Saarinen
Production:
Kinotar Oy
Production support:
AVEK
YLE
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The Horse Effect
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F I N N I S H
2005 | Digibeta | 16:9 Anamorphic |
Stereo | 59’45’’
Director, script:
Imbi Paju
Cinematography:
Marita Hällfors, Rein Kotov
Editing:
Riitta Poikselkä
Sound design:
Ivo Felt
[
To r j u t u t
m u i s t o t
]
This historical-psychological documentary film tells the growth story of the director’s mother
and her twin sister in a totalitarian society under Stalinism, Soviet occupation and terror when
repressing memories was the only method of self-defence. The film is an analysis of memory
which goes through violent personal memories of the Second World War sixty years after Stalin’s
concentration camps and Soviet terror. In the documentary, the director depicts her mother’s
past and, at the same time, that of all Estonia. It is still hard to talk about the unresolved past
which crosses generation lines. But this journey must be completed in order for the community to
heal from the wounds of history.
Music:
Märt-Matis Lill
Producer:
Nina Koljonen
Production:
Fantasiafilmi Oy
Imbi Paju
Co-producer:
Imbi Paju is one of Estonia’s best-known writing journalists.
She has worked as a correspondent in Finland for Estonian
newspapers Päevaleht and Postimees. She has covered socially
sensitive topics in both Estonian and Finnish newspapers.
Paju’s best-known TV programmes are Encounters in Helsinki
(Helsinki – Euroopan kulttuuripääkaupunki, 2000), Sangaste
Manor and Count Berg (Sangasten linna ja kreivi Berg , 1999)
and People of Raja Village (Rajakülan kansa –
elokuva vanhauskoisista, 1998).
Pille Rünk / Allfilm OÜ (Estonia)
Production support:
AVEK (Development),
Estonian Film Foundation,
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
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Memories Denied
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2005 | HDVCAM, DVCAM | 16:9 |
Stereo | 84’
[
O t a
m i n u t
s y l i i n
]
The documentary Take Me in Your Arms tells of 33-year old Timi, who lives in Kallio, Helsinki. It is
a story of loneliness and the glimpsing of moments of happiness and sadness. The movie opens a
window on a nihilistic world, where you can find a friend only in the bar.
We follow the protagonist for a period of four years. Timi ridicules our time and its cliches;
As a jester, he questions the choices of others and his own. As the interpreter of mediocre pop
covers, Timi makes a mockery of the middle classes, but at the same time he tells about the need
to be close to someone.
Rostislav Aalto
Sound design:
Heikki Innanen
Rostislav Aalto
Producer:
Rostislav Aalto (born in Moscow, 1971) has worked as photographer,
editor and director in numerous productions. Since 1997 he has led
a private enterprise, Zen Media, which produces documentaries and
offers editing services for other film companies.
Aalto has directed e.g. the films Gunshots in Orimattila (Orimattilan
laukaukset , 2000), Cleaning Up! (2002) and Rush (Kiire, 2004).
Aalto is a member of the Guild of Documentarists and member of
the board of The Union of Finnish Film and Video Employees and
The Association of Finnish Film Director.
Rostislav Aalto
Production:
Zen Media / Zen and Trading Oy
(Ltd)
Production support:
YLE TV1
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Take Me in Your Arms
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2006 | Digibeta, Beta, DVD | 4:3 |
Stereo | 51’23’’
Director, script:
Pia Andell
Cinematography:
Martta & Ragnar Ypyä
[
H e t k e t
j o t k a
j ä i v ä t
]
In 1938 young architects Ragnar and Martta Ypyä, or Y and Mirri, bouht an 8mm camera and
started filming their world in Vyborg, a Finnish town near the Soviet border. The couple’s future
seemed bright. A year later their lives had changed irreversibly. The Soviet Union had attacked
Finland and the Winter War had started. Mirri fled to the countryside. Y stayed in Vyborg, where
he was summoned to repair the damage caused by the Soviet bombings. Still they kept on filming.
Y in Vyborg tells the touching story of Y and Mirri during the years 1938–1949. The film is
based solely on the exceptionally good black and white 8mm footage and uses the couple’s correspondence to shed more light on the reality of that tragic era. Y in Vyborg is a chronicle of the
times of the Finnish Ypyä family – a film about war and longing, and loss and death.
Editing:
Pauliina Punkki
Sound design:
Kirsi Korhonen
Music:
Pia Andell
Pessi Levanto
Pia Andell has directed documentary films since 1992.
When not filming she enjoys sleeping, dreaming and
dancing vigorously. Andell is also a proud mother of
two daughters.
Producer:
Pia Andell
Production:
Of Course My Films
Production support:
AVEK
YLE Teema
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Y in Vyborg
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2005 | Digibeta, Betacam SP |
16:9 Anamorph |
5.1 / Stereo Surround | 60’
Rax Rinnekangas
Editing:
Tuuli Kuittinen
A touching film by Rax Rinnekangas about a human’s longing to find himself – set in Europe,
Russia and Africa in the 20th century.
Zahara & Urga is a story about a silent boy living near the Arctic Circle to whom a special light
phenomenon one day gives him another person’s voice. He becomes a photographer who spends
years travelling through European cultures searching for the light that helped him to speak. He
arrives at a steppe (urga) in Central Russia where an Englishman called Andrew Powell once
photographed a phenomenon of the same kind 60 years before, during the Stalinist regime of
the 1930s. He begins to trace Powell’s life through recent European and African history, arriving
at a house called Zahara in Spanish Africa. Here he discovers that the imagery of the mysterious
Powell was similar to his and that Powell had photographed the same places as him. The mystery
is: what are these men to each other?
Sound design:
Olli Huhtanen
Music:
Rax Rinnekangas
Timo Hietala
Rax Rinnekangas (b. 1954) strives, in his work, to
encounter reality as a realistic and, at the same time,
surrealistic quality. His central themes are the memory
of our past and the human being in his spiritual and
physical space.
Rinnekangas has published over twenty works:
books of photographs, novels, short stories and essays.
He has made several documentary films and held
over forty private exhibitions in Finland and abroad.
Producer:
Pekka Hako
Production:
Bad Taste Ltd.
Production support:
AVEK
YLE
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(LENGTH 35 MINUTES OR LESS)
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Stereo | 15’
Aarne, 86, lives by himself on a small farm near Oulunsalo airport. He doesn’t want to move
to an old people’s home though his knees are weak and joints stiff with arthritis. Wild cats that
roam his garden by the dozen keep him company. Daily routines and the cats make Aarne’s life
worth living.
Director, script, editor:
Mervi Junkkonen
Cinematography:
Tuomo Hutri
Sound design:
Mervi Jukkonen
Esa Nissi
Mervi Junkkonen (born 1975) has
studied documentary directing and
editing at the University of Art and
Design Helsinki, UIAH. She has
made the films Barbeiros (2001),
Saana (Saanan tahto, 2003) and
About a Farm (Hiljainen tila , 2004).
She has won several prizes at film
festivals around the world.
Music:
Girilal Baars
Producer:
Kimmo Paananen
Production:
Klaffi Productions
Production support:
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Stereo | 17’28”
Tonislav Hristov’s Hercules is a short documentary about a Bulgarian man who earns his living
entertaining people by swallowing swords, lying on nails and walking on broken glass. The dangers of this rare profession collide with the long tradition he is also teaching his young son.
A warm and touching story of an exceptional occupation, Hercules is a vision of a craft moving from generation to the next, in the modern world of only shortly lived moments. Beautifully
simple yet pure in its heart, Hercules shows us a child’s vision of the world around him as well as
the humility and fears of the older man, scarred from his way of life.
Director, script,
cinematography, editing:
Tonislav Hristov
Sound design:
Tonislav Hristov
Juha Hakanen
Tonislav Hristov (b. 1978 in Vraza, Bulgaria) moved to Finland four and half
years ago. He has graduated from the Technical University in Bulgaria. After
working as a technical assistant to movie directors, Hristov started in 2003
making his own movies. Hristov has also studied on the Etno Media Course,
arranged by YLE in 2004, and is now a media student on MUNDO – a media
education and work training project for immigrants and ethnic minorities
living in Finland. The two-year-long studies take place at the Helsinki
Polytechnic Stadia. The work training takes place at YLE, where Hristov has
been making short documentaries for a weekly MUNTO-TV-slot on YLE TV1.
Producer:
Pekka Aine
Production:
Oy Todellisuus Ab
Production support:
AVEK
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2005 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | ~20’
[
Ta l o u s e l ä m ä n i
]
This movie is an essay documentary on the power of money.
The movie tells about the freedom and servitude of consumption in my own life.
I am looking for a new language for a subjective social movie.
The power of money is everywhere. It lives in our house too.
Director, script, editing:
Jaana Puhakka
Music:
Ilari Edelmann
Jaana Puhakka
Producer:
Documentary filmmaker and film worker.
Born in 1963.
Jaana Puhakka
Production:
Kuvani Ky
Production support:
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My Economic Life
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2005 | Digital Betacam, Beta SP |
16:9 Anamorphic | Stereo | 12’38’’
Director, script:
Kimmo Yläkäs
Cinematography:
Tahvo Hirvonen
Editing:
Kimmo Kohtamäki, Kimmo Yläkäs
Sound design:
Janne Jankeri
Producer:
Hannu Oksanen
Production:
Oksanen Töölöstä Oy
Produced as part of
The Other Finland project:
executive producers
Ulla Simonen / AVEK,
Iikka Vehkalahti /
YLE TV2 Documentaries,
Timo Korhonen / The Other Finland
Production support:
AVEK
YLE Co-productions
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The Queue
[
J o n o
]
In Vaalimaa, the Finnish-Russian customs and border, hundreds of trucks wait to cross the border to Russia. The queue can be up to some twenty or thirty kilometres long. A Russian truck
driver, Andrei Romantchenko waits for his turn in the queue. The queue jolts forward in its own
time. He just waits, and waits.
Andrei tries to sleep whenever he can. But if the queue moves, when he’s asleep, the others
will jump in and take his place. He keeps in contact with his family over his mobile just to find out
that his wife is out partying. Andrei wants to believe that even if he’s away a lot, he is still there to
see everything important like the birth of the baby and his first steps.
How does it feel, when you can do nothing but wait? Frustrating? Truck drivers are meant to
be on the move. You can sit still in the queues for days, then you move a bit and then wait again
repeatedly.
Kimmo Yläkäs
Kimmo Yläkäs studied film at the Lahti polytechnic,
Institute of design, Film and TV department.
His diploma work was the film The Long Gone
(Poissa, 2004). The Queue is his first film outside
the school.
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[
Ke v ä t
]
A school day ends and the scruffy fatigue of the last school weeks of spring is unleashed by restless
wandering in the woods, stump lands and shopping malls of the suburbs. Young boys are full of
anarchy and frenzy. They walk like termites in the scenery divided by ring roads taking with them
everything they can. The film stars 12–13-year-old boys and a few same-aged girls who live in a
Northern Helsinki suburb. The film depicts the basic state of childhood of our time: restlessness.
Directors, script, editing:
Cinematography:
Heikki Färm
Sound design:
Anne Tolkkinen
Music:
Timo Hietala
Producer:
Cilla Werning
Executive producer:
Lasse Saarinen
Production:
Kinotar Oy
Production support:
YLE
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Spring
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Stereo | 6’
[
S o t a
]
A group of young suburban boys has gathered to play airsoft. Their equipment resembles that of
real infantry men down to the smallest detail. Their camouflage outfits blend in with the Finnish
suburban forest. Machine guns shoot sustained fire and when a magazine is empty a new one
is loaded professionally. The entertainment industry produces equipment for games in which
children emulate the adult world ever more authentically using toys.
Directors, script, editing:
Cinematography:
Heikki Färm
Sound design:
Anne Tolkkinen
Producer:
Cilla Werning
Executive producer:
Lasse Saarinen
Production:
Kinotar Oy
Production support:
YLE
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Festival contacts
for all titles:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3060
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
Art Films Production AFP Oy
Merimiehenkatu 10
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4159 3640
Fax +358 9 4159 3690
info@artfilms.inet.fi
www.artfilmsartohalonen.fi
Fantasiafilmi Oy
Tallberginkatu 1 A / 141
FI-00180 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5407 850
Fax +358 9 5407 8530
nina.koljonen@fantasiafilm.com
www.fantasiafilm.com
Bad Taste Ltd.
Rahapajankatu 3 C 19
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 5853 663
pekka.hako@welho.com
Giron Filmi Oy
Lapinlahdenkatu 29 A 10
FI-00180 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 685 4429
Blind Spot Pictures Oy
Kalliolanrinne 4
FI-00510 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7742 8360
Fax +358 9 7742 8350
spot@blindspot.fi
www.blindspot.fi
Illume Oy
Palkkatilankatu 7
FI-00240 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 1481 489
illume@illume.fi
www.illume.fi
Ilokuva, Naukkarinen & Co.
Palotie 23 B
FI-02760 Espoo
Tel.+358 9 8554 860
Fax +358 9 8813 592
ilokuva@ilokuva.fi
www.ilokuva.fi
Klaffi Productions
Nahkatehtaankatu 2
FI-90100 Oulu
Tel. +358 8 8811 623
Fax +358 8 8811 624
klaffi@klaffi.com
www.klaffi.com
Katharsis Films Oy
Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 37 B 31
FI-00260 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 3422 121
Mobile +358 40 7257 707
hiltunen@kaapeli.fi
www.kafi.fi
Kuvani Ky
Sillanmäki 10
FI-06100 Porvoo
Tel. +358 40 5426 277
Fax +358 19 5348 535
jaana.puhakka@kolumbus.fi
Kinotar Oy
Vuorikatu 16 A 9
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 1351 864
Fax +358 9 1357 863
kinotar@kinotar.com
www.kinotar.com
Making Movies Oy
Linnankatu 7
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6213 828
Fax +358 9 6842 7870
mamo@mamo.fi
www.mamo.fi
Marianna Films Oy
Punavuorenkatu 5 A 2
FI-00120 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 6221 614
office@marfilm.pp.fi
www.mikakaurismaki.com
Media Center Kotka Oy
Kymenlaaksonkatu 10
FI-48100 Kotka
Tel. +358 5 215 217
Fax +358 5 2184 672
pasi.riiali@mediacenter.fi
info@mediacenter.fi
www.mediacenter.fi
Of Course My Films
Nordenskiöldinkatu 3b A 11
FI-00250 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 5441 213
Fax +358 9 2417 233
ofcoursemyfilms@luukku.com
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Festival contacts
for all titles:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3060
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
Oksanen Töölöstä Oy
Kymenlaaksonkatu 10
FI-48100 Kotka
Tel./Fax +358 5 2250 800
hannu.oksanen@mediacenter.fi
www.mediacenter.fi
RT Documentaries Oy
Runeberginkatu 28 B 11
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 400 507 280
Fax +358 9 490 692
rtd@saunalahti.fi
Petfilms Oy
Pitäjänmäen asema
FI-00370 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5617 800
Fax +358 9 5617 8010
petfilms@petfilms.fi
www.petfilms.fi
Silva Mysterium Oy
Pulttitie 16 (3. kerros)
FI-00880 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7594 720
Fax +358 9 7594 7240
mika.ritalahti@silvamysterium.fi
www.silvamysterium.fi
Editor: Satu Elo | Translations: Broadcast Text | Layout: Maikki Rantala, Praxis Oy | Printed by: Erikoispaino Oy, Helsinki, 2005 | ISSN 1795-9977
Oy Todellisuus Ab
Suomenlinna C 83 A 8
FI-00190 Helsinki
Tel. +358 400 604 239
pekka.aine@todellisuus.inet.fi
Videomakers Oy
Svinhufvudinkatu 23
FI-15110 Lahti
Tel. +358 3 7512 286
Fax +358 3 7512 287
hannu.niikko@videomakers.fi
www.videomakers.fi
Wide Management
42 bis, rue de Lourmel
FR-75015 Paris
France
Tel. +33 1 5395 0464
Fax +33 1 5395 0465
wide@widemanagement.com
www.widemanagement.com
Zen Media / Zen and Trading Oy
Arabiankatu 2
FI-00560 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 8775 9160
raalto@uiah.fi
www.zenmedia.fi
Front cover: Along the Road Little Child by Susanna Helke & Virpi Suutari |
Back cover: The Nesting Tree by Ilkka Riihijärvi & Ulla Turunen, Sonic Mirror by Mika Kaurismäki, The Horse Effect by Jolle Onnismaa, Memories Denied by Imbi Paju, Family of One by Mia Halme |
Page 3: Revolution by Jouko Aaltonen | Page 25: Y in Vyborg by Pia Andell | Page 47: The Queue by Kimmo Yläkäs
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