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Contents
Feature Films
Backwood Philosopher
Bad Family
Gimme Some Respect
Heartbeats
House of Branching Love, The
If You Love
Interrogation, The
Lapland Odyssey
Last Cowboy Standing
Magic Crystal, The
Playground
Princess
Pudana – Last of Her Family
Rare Exports
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief
Should I Stay
Twisted Roots
Under the North Star
Under the North Star 2
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Feature-Length Documentaries
All Boys
Arabian Shores
Auf Wiedersehen Finnland
Freetime Machos
Home Dreams
In the Shadow of a Doubt
In the Steam of Life
Ito – A Diary of an Urban Priest
Kinnvika – The Last Border
Magnetic Man, The
Matti Nykänen – By His Own Words
Portrait of a Man
Rules of Single Life
Saving Souls
Selling the Silence
Silent Longing
Vesku from Finland
Volga, Volga
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Top Films in Finland 2009
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Local Films 2009
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Facts in Figures
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Finnish Feature Films 2004–2009
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Film Festivals in Finland 2010
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International Sales Companies
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Useful Addresses
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Distributors in Finland
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Producers
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35mm, Digital Cinema print |
1:2,35 | Dolby digital | 110’ |
Premiere: January 15, 2010
Backwood Philosopher
[
Hav u k ka -a h o n
a ja t t e l i ja
]
Backwood Philosopher is based on a hugely popular novel by Veikko Huovinen. Two biologists from
Director, script: Kari Väänänen
a university travel to the remote backwoods of eastern Finland. They get Konsta Pylkkänen to
guide them; he is an uneducated but smart lumberjack who has developed Baron von Münchhausen-like visions on how the world is constructed. The three men start a journey through the
woods and learn new things about science, history and human nature from each other.
Cinematography: Timo Salminen
Editing: Benjamin Mercer
Sound design: Jyrki Rahkonen
Set design: Markku Pätilä
Costumes: Johanna Heikkilä
Cast: Kai Lehtinen, Tommi Korpela,
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Kari Väänänen
Producers:
Director-screenwriter Väänänen is an accomplished
director of two feature films (The Classic / Klassikko, 2001, and The Quiet Village / Vaiennut kylä,
1997) and the TV series Taivaan tulet (2007). In
addition, Väänänen has played roles in dozens of
feature films, receiving two Jussi Awards for his performances; for best lead male in the film Jon (1983)
and best supporting male in the film Trench Road
(Juoksuhaudantie, 2004). Väänänen has also received a Venla Award for the TV series Taivaan tulet.
Marko Röhr, Mikko Tenhunen
Production company:
MRP Matila Röhr Productions
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation
Financing TV company: YLE
Distributor in Finland:
Nordisk Film
www.matilarohr.com
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Photo: Malla Hukkanen
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Music: Pessi Levanto
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35mm | 1:1,85 | Dolby 5.1 | 92’ |
Premiere: January 29, 2010
Director, script: Aleksi Salmenperä
Bad Family
[
P a h a
p e r h e
]
After going through an ugly divorce, the father has been raising the family’s son on his own, while
the mother has had custody of the daughter. Sixteen years later, the mother passes away and the
brother and sister meet again. The brother has a crush on his sister and rebels against his father,
who copes poorly with the situation. The father ends up alone with his own demented father.
Cinematography: Tuomo Hutri
Editing: Samu Heikkilä
Sound design: Tero Malmberg
Music: Ville A. Tanttu
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Set design: Markku Pätilä
Costumes: Ella Brigatti
Cast: Ville Virtanen, Pihla Viitala,
Lauri Tilkanen
Producer: Aki Kaurismäki
Production company: Sputnik Oy
Production support: The Finnish Film
Foundation, Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Financing TV company:
YLE Co-productions
Sandrew Metronome Distribution
Finland Oy Ab
International sales:
The Match Factory
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Aleksi Salmenperä
Salmenperä (b. 1973) graduated as MA in directing and screenwriting from
the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2003. He has directed several
short films, including the award-winning Ferry-Go-Round (Onnenpeli 2001,
2001). He has also directed several films and series for TV, such as Vapaa pudotus (“Free Fall”) in 2001 and Tie Eedeniin (“The Road to Eden”) in 2003.
His first feature film, Producing Adults (Lapsia ja aikuisia), was selected as
Finland’s Oscar entry in 2004, and has been sold to 15 countries. In 2007,
he was selected as Finnish Film Director of the Year. His second feature film
A Man’s Job (Miehen työ, director/writer) was also the Finnish Oscar entry
in 2007, and has received awards at many festivals around the world.
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Script: Leena Virtanen
Cinematography: Heikki Färm
Editing: Kauko Lindfors
Sound design: Pekka Karjalainen
Music: Heikki Silvennoinen,
Pekka Karjalainen
Set design: Tytti Tiri
Costumes: Riitta Röpelinen
Cast: Outi Kero, Elena Leeve,
Asko Vaarala, Kari-Pekka Toiviainen,
Svante Martin, Sami Helle,
Aapo Ahtola, Heikki Hela,
Inkeri Kivimäki, Miia Lindström
Producer: Riikka Poulsen
Production company:
Meguru Production
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation,
Church Media Foundation
Financing TV company: YLE TV1
Distributor in Finland: Walt Disney
Studios Motion Pictures Finland
www.vahankunnioitusta.fi
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Gimme Some Respect
[
Vä h ä n
k u n n i o i t u s t a
]
A young woman, SIIRI is about to move away from home. Her aim is to become independent and
she is dreaming about LOVE. Just like many other young women. However, there is one thing
separating her from the others: Siiri is mentally disabled. She is doing well on the road to becoming independent. She resides in an innovative dormitory and refuses to live on social security,
instead getting a job to support herself. Siiri falls in love with SANTERI. Santeri is not mentally
disabled. For a while happiness blooms. Siiri’s friend SUSKI, who lives in the same dormitory, is
desperately dreaming about marriage and, not being careful enough, ends up getting sexually
abused. This event along with the unprejudiced relationship with Siiri and Santeri blows up all
the hidden attitudes of people to the surface.
Pekka Karjalainen
Pekka Karjalainen (born in 1961) studied at the Film
Department of the University of Art and Design Helsinki
UIAH from which he graduated as a Master of Arts.
Karjalainen has worked as a sound designer in more than
30 feature-length films. The films he has directed include
the documentary film The Rhythm (Rytmi, 1991), the featurelength road movie Hysteria (1993), the television films
A Pastoral (Pastoraali, 1995) and Beatlehem (2003) as well
as the feature film Jackpot (Kummelin Jackpot, 2006).
Photo: Jani Häkli
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Director: Pekka Karjalainen
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Digimaster, 35mm | 1:2,35 | Dolby
digital | 92’ | Premiere: June 18, 2010
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Director, script: Saara Cantell
Cinematography: Marita Hällfors
Editing: Pauliina Punkki
Sound design: Pietari Koskinen
Music: Sid Hille
[
Ko h t a a m i s i a
]
Martta has a secret she won’t reveal to her family. Noora tries to find her wings and Meri learns
that you should be careful what you wish for. Olga and Fardusa are looking for a chance for a
better future far away from home, while Emmi misses her chances by always making the wrong
choices. And Anu faces her past in a supermarket parking lot. Still every one of them comes to
realise that a single encounter can change the course of their lives.
Set design: Pirjo Rossi
Costumes: Sanja Kangas
Cast: Anneli Sauli, Jenni Banerjee,
Meri Nenonen, Johanna af Schulten,
Leena Uotila, Maryan Guuleed,
Elena Spirina, Roosa Salomaa,
Tommi Raitolehto, Sampo Sarkola,
Yrjö Parjanne, Titus Rantala
Producer: Outi Rousu
Production company:
Pystymetsä Oy
Production support:
Financing TV companies:
YLE Teema, YLE Co-productions
Distributor in Scandinavia:
Nordisk Film Oy
www.pystymetsa.fi
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Heartbeats
Saara Cantell
Director-screenwriter Saara Cantell has directed the children’s movie
Unna & Nuuk (2006), several short films (including the award-winning
Portrait / Potretti, 2003, and What If / Mahdollisuus, 2005), TV series
(including Fairy Tales from Frontier / Rajametsän tarinoita, 2004) and
dance films (including the award-winning A Tale of Shatters / Sirpalesatu, 1995). She has also written screenplays for TV series (including
Black Cat’s Passage / Mustan kissan kuja, 2000). Her documentary Very
Own (Ikiomaksi, 2007) was nominated for the Prix Europa 2008 competition. Saara graduated as a film director from the Department of Film at
the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 1996. She has also studied
directing and screenwriting in the US and other Nordic countries.
Photo: Johanna Onnismaa
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35mm, Digibeta | 1:1,85 / 16:9 |
Dolby digital 5.0 / Stereo | 81’ |
Premiere: March 5, 2010
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35mm, Digibeta, HDcam |
1:2,35 | Dolby digital | 107’ |
Premiere: August 21, 2009
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
Script: Mika Kaurismäki,
Sami Keski-Vähälä
based on a novel by Petri Karra
Cinematography: Rauno Ronkainen
Editing: Jukka Nykänen
Sound design: Joonas Jyrälä
Music: Jarmo Saari
Set design: Pete Neuvonen
Costumes: Niina Pasanen
Producer: Mika Kaurismäki
Production company:
Marianna Films Oy
Production support:
Financing TV company: MTV3
Distributor in Finland: FS Film Oy
International Sales:
Wide Management
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The House of Branching Love
[
H a a r a u t u v a n
r a k k a u d e n
t a l o
]
Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a
civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their house. But when Paula invites Marco, a one-night stand, to the house and Juhani takes revenge on Paula by hiring Nina, a
prostitute, from Wolffi, his half-brother and a pimp, to play his new girlfriend in order to force
Paula to leave the house, the Pandora’s box in their marriage flies open and releases the plagues
of love and hate.
Mika Kaurismäki
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. He has since directed films all around the world. His work includes,
e.g. the fictional films The Worthless (Arvottomat, 1982), Rosso (1985), Helsinki
Napoli All Night Long (1987), Amazon (1990), LA Without a Map (1998), Honey
Baby (2004) and the documentaries Tigrero – A Film That Was Never Made
(1994, with Sam Fuller and Jim Jarmusch), Brasileirinho (2005) and Sonic Mirror (2007). In 2008, after 17 years of not filming in Finland, he directed two
Finnish fictional films, Three Wise Men (Kolme viisasta miestä, 2008) and The
House of Branching Love (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo, 2009).
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Cinemascope 1:2,35 | Dolby Digital |
121’ | Premiere: January 6, 2010
If You Love
[
J o s
r a k a s t a t
]
If You Love is an edgy musical love story between a politician’s daughter and an immigrant family’s
son. A spoiled 19-year-old girl, Ada crashes a car, loses her memory and has to start her life anew.
She falls in love with Toni, but has to carry a big secret that threatens to destroy everything.
Director: Neil Hardwick
Script: Katja Kallio
Cinematography: Pini Hellstedt
Choreography: Osku Heiskanen
Editing: Harri Ylönen
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Sound design: Pasi Peni
Music: Leri Leskinen
Set design: Kaisa Mäkinen
Costumes: Elina Kolehmainen
Cast: Elli Vallinoja, Chike Ohanwe,
Minttu Mustakallio, Taneli Mäkelä,
Satu Silvo, Meri Nenonen,
Jenni Halaka
Producer: Jarkko Hentula
Production company: Juonifilmi Oy
Production support:
www.josrakastat.fi
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Neil Hardwick
Neil Hardwick boasts a long history in television
and theatre, and has written and directed a host of
TV comedies (Tankki täyteen, Reinikainen, Sisko ja
sen veli, Nyhjää tyhjästä ) and drama (Musta tuntuu,
Pakanamaan kartta). In recent years, Hardwick has
directed theatre, including musicals (The Producers
– Kevät koittaa Hitlerille, Me and My Girl) and
other plays (Kvartetti, Miksi naiset aina rakastuvat
Ernestiin, Hitchcock ja blondi).
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16:9 | Strereo | 102’ |
Premiere: September 25, 2009
Director: Jörn Donner
Script: Olli Soinio
Cinematography: Pirjo Honkasalo
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Editing: Klaus Grabber
[
K u u l u s t e l u
]
Kerttu Nuorteva, a Finnish-born Soviet citizen and spy, was dropped into Finland by parachute in
February 1942. She operated undercover in Helsinki until the 7th of September, when she was
arrested after making a mistake. The Interrogation is, as the title reveals, the story about her interrogations that were conducted by three different men. At first, they achieved no results. Kerttu,
whose true identity was slowly revealed, refused to believe what she was told about the cruelty of
Stalin’s killing machinery that also targeted Finns. Little by little, her defences began to crumble
as the World War was irrevocably turning in favour of the Soviet Union. In spite of her cooperation, Kerttu was sentenced to death. She was, however, saved by the ending of the war. This is a
film about Kerttu Nuorteva’s difficult and mostly impossible choices.
Music: Pedro Hietanen
Set design: Pentti Valkeasuo
Costumes: Auli Turtiainen
Cast: Minna Haapkylä, Marcus Groth,
Jörn Donner
Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Lauri Nurkse
Producers: Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
Jörn Donner (b. 1933) has mainly produced himself as a writer. Among
his more than 50 books, two are about Ingmar Bergman. Donner has
also served in the Finnish and the European Parliament, and as Finland’s
Consul-General in Los Angeles. As a film producer, his best-known film
is Bergman’s Fanny & Alexander. Donner has written and directed more
than 15 feature films and several documentaries for TV. His first feature,
A Sunday in September (En söndag i September) won the Opera Prima
award in Venice 1963. The Interrogation is his return to filmmaking after
an absence of many years.
Production company:
Jörn Donner Productions Oy
Production support:
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The Interrogation
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Script: Pekko Pesonen
Cinematography: Pini Hellstedt
Editing: Harri Nykänen
Music: Lance Hogan
Set design: Pirjo Rossi
Costumes: Anna Vilppunen
Cast: Jussi Vatanen, Jasper Pääkkönen,
Timo Lavikainen, Pamela Tola,
Kari Ketonen, Miia Nuutila
Producer: Aleksi Bardy
Production company: Helsinki -filmi Oy
Co-producers: Ripple World Pictures,
Dominic Wright and Jacqueline
Kerrin & Anagram produktion AB,
Martin Persson
Production support: The Finnish
Film Foundation, Irish Film Board,
NFTF, Swedish Film Institute,
Film i Väst, Media Plus, SVT
Distributor in Finland: Sandrew
Metronome Distribution Finland Oy Ab
www.napapiirinsankarit.fi
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Lapland Odyssey
[
N a p a p i i r i n
s a n k a r i t
]
A comedy about three long-term unemployed young men, living in Lapland, who set out on a quest
to find a digital receiver, a digi box, on a wintery Friday night. Lapland is rough, cold and suicide
kills more than traffic. The sun almost never comes up, all the women have left to work in the
south and the men stay to drink, take care of reindeers or hang themselves.
Our main character, Janne, is exceptional: he has a girlfriend, Inari. But he hasn’t managed to
get a digi box until finally Inari, won’t take any more explanations and threatens to move to south,
unless he returns with a digi box by the morning. The quest is a tough one, since the boys are broke
and Rovaniemi, where Janne’s father-in-law has a home appliance store, is 200 kilometers away.
As the night proceeds, the boys try to operate an illegal taxi business, make a hole in the ice for
a “ladies’ under water rugby team”, and slaughter a reindeer for a group of noveau riche Russians.
Each attempt to earn money ends up worse than the other. As the night approaches morning, Janne
dares to challenge all odds in order to get the digi box – even death. In the end, the quest is not
about Inari – never mind the digi box – but a desire that has woken within Janne to, for once in his
life, finish something he has begun. It is a quest for a man to find his dignity and belief in himself.
Dome Karukoski
Karukoski (b. 1976 in Cyprus) is the most active young film director in Finland.
His debut feature was Beauty and the Bastard (Tyttö sinä olet tähti, 2005), and
after that followed The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti,
2008), which was Finland’s entry for the Oscars. Forbidden Fruit (Kielletty
hedelmä, 2009) opened in the competition at Gothenburg International Film
Festival. The festival carrier after that has included Karlovy Vary, Cairo and
Festroia, where it won three prizes, including Best Film.
Photo: Tuukka Ylönen
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Director Dome Karukoski
F E A T U R E
1:2,35 | Dolby | 100’ |
Premiere: October 15, 2010
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Director: Zaida Bergroth
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35mm | 1:2,35 (Cinemascope) |
Dolby digital | 126’ |
Script: Antti Raivio, Jan Forsström,
Zaida Bergroth
Cinematography: Anu Keränen
Editing: Niels Pagh Andersen
Sound design: Janne Laine
Music: Alex Hacke
Set design: Kaisa Mäkinen
Costumes: Sari Suominen
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Cast: Ilmari Järvenpää,
Onni Tommila, Martti Suosalo,
Leea Klemola, Lauri Tilkanen,
Iiro Panula
Producer: Jarkko Hentula
Production company: Juonifilmi Oy
Co-producers: Nicoile Gerhards,
Hanneke van der Tas / NikoFilm
(Germany)
Production support:
YLE, ZDF/ARTE
International sales: m-appeal
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[
S k a v a b ö l e n
p o j a t
]
In 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their
cowboys-and-indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighbourhood girls. In
the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother and the charming but unreliable
father. The family has moved to a new house, and the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall
apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers; then Mom
is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The
brothers make a blood oath: one can’t lie or die, or one has to pay the other a million or more for
the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But in the end things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old
Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.
If he doesn’t find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated, and the curse will live on. Dad is
coming home, and the blood oath is about to be broken.
Zaida Bergroth
Zaida Bergroth (born 1977) has studied film
directing at the University of Art and Design
Helsinki’s School of Motion Picture, TV and
Production Design. Glass Jaw (Lasileuka, 2004)
was her diploma work at the university. Her latest
two short fiction films Heavy Metal (2007) and
Town Manager (Kunnanjohtaja, 2007) have won
several prizes at different festivals. Last Cowboy
Standing is Bergroth’s first feature film.
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35mm, Digital Cinema print,
Stereoscopic (3D) version |
1:1,85 | 5.1 surround | 76’ |
Premiere: November 5, 2010
The Magic Crystal
[
M a a g i n e n
k r i s t a l l i
]
A magic crystal makes it possible for Santa to multiply his efforts to distribute presents to children and thus bring happiness to families all over the world. But Santa’s evil twin brother, Basil,
has a diabolic plan. He plans to steal the crystal and gain control over children’s minds. But
thanks to the courage of a human boy, Yotan, the crystal is saved by Santa’s RED CAPS – his crew
of elf helpers. They succeed, after many adventures and crises, in saving the crystal and bringing
it back to Santa’s headquarters in Korvatunturi. But even if this film shares the ethic values of the
elvish tradition, The Magic Crystal is closer to science fiction than classic Nordic mythology.
Director, editing: Antti Haikala
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Script: Bob Swain, Dan Wicksman,
Nuria Wicksman, Kurt Weldon,
Alessandro Liggieri, Antti Haikala
Producer: Mikael Wahlforss
Production company: Epidem ZOT
Co-producers: Gianluca Bellomo /
ConnecToon (Italy); Mark Mertens /
Skyline Film & Television (Belgium)
Production support:
Channel Four Finland
Finland Oy Ab
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Antti Haikala
Antti Haikala is a seasoned animation professional. He has
studied traditional animation but has specialised in 3D animation during his career. In 2000, Antti co-founded Anima
Vitae, which is currently the biggest animation studio in
Finland. At Anima, Antti started as a character animator
and evolved during the years to become supervising animator and animation director. For Antti, making animations
is all about passion – but also hard work that differs a lot
from other filmmaking techniques.
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35mm | 1:1,85 | Dolby digital | 89’ |
Director: Toni Laine
Script: Petja Peltomaa,
Sanna Reinumägi
Cinematography: Konsta Sohlberg
Editing: Aleksi Raij
Sound design: Mika Niinimaa
Music: Kalle Sinkkonen
Set design: Päivi Kettunen
Costumes: Anna Vilppunen
Cast: Sibell Kekilli, Mikko Leppilampi,
Teemu Palosaari, June Hyde
Producer: Aleksi Bardy
Production company: Helsinki -filmi Oy
Co-producer: Network Movie Film- und
Fernsehproduktion GmbH (Germany)
Production support:
Channel Four Finland, NDR
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Playground
[
P i h a l l a
]
Laura is a German wife and mother who moves to Finland because her husband gets a job there.
At first everything is very difficult; her husband is always working, Laura is unable to find friends
and the November city is not showing its best side. By chance, Laura is mistaken for a single
mother, which allows her to make new friends and become acquainted with Tero, who gives
music lessons for children at the local playground. Laura ends up having an affair with Tero, and
the deeper she gets into the affair, the more she comes to like her new hometown. When spring
arrives and it is time for her to move, Laura’s life has changed in many ways.
Toni Laine
Playground is Toni Laine’s first
feature film. Laine has previously
directed a number of popular
and award-winning TV projects,
commercials and music videos.
Laine graduated from the University
of Art and Design Helsinki’s
School of Motion Picture,
TV and Production Design.
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Director: Arto Halonen
F I N N I S H
F E A T U R E
35mm, Digital Cinema print | Cinemascope | Dolby digital | ~100–110’ |
Script: Pirjo Toikka, Arto Halonen,
Paavo Westerberg
Cinematography: Hannu Vitikainen
Editing: Tuuli Kuittinen
Sound design: Juha Linna
Music: Tuomas Kantelinen
Set design: Jukka Uusitalo
Costumes: Ritva Muikku
Cast: Katja Kukkola, Samuli Edelmann,
Krista Kosonen, Peter Franzén, PirkkaPekka Petelius, Antti Litja, Irma Junnilainen, Paavo Westerberg, Paula Vesala,
Tapio Liinoja, Ulla Tapaninen, Joanna
Haartti, Pertti Koivula
Producers: Arto Halonen, Alf Hemming
Production company:
Art Films production AFP Oy
Production support:
Financing TV company: MTV 3
www.prinsessaelokuva.fi
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Princess
[
P r i n s e s s a
]
A film about a woman, judged to be ill by society, who heals and brings joy to people around her
with her presence and personality. As she heals her surroundings more effectively than the prevailing healthcare system, society attempts to suppress this individual’s inner light.
Princess is a light-hearted film based on a true story, concerning the most famous patient of
Kellokoski psychiatric hospital, Anna Lappalainen. Diagnosed as manic depressive with symptoms of schizophrenia, Anna Lappalainen claims to be a princess when brought into the hospital
and does not want to be called by her own name. Lappalainen’s arrival kick-starts a long battle
with the hospital’s staff over her identity and her right to dictate her own personality. Eventually
Kellokoski hospital becomes the Princess’s castle where Anna holds court, bringing joy and healing to her surroundings.
Arto Halonen
Halonen has directed numerous award-winning films, e.g. the documentaries Shadow of the Holy Book (Pyhän kirjan varjo, 2007), Pavlov’s Dogs (Pavlovin koirat, 2005), The Stars’ Caravan (Taivasta vasten, 2000) and Karmapa
– Two Ways of Divinity (Karmapa – jumaluuden kaksi tietä, 1998). In 2005
he got the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in the arts given by the
Ministry of Culture. In 1998 he received the European Humanitarian Award,
and in 2008 the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honoured him as one of
the most important documentary filmmakers of his generation.
He is the founder of DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.
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Directors: Anastasia Lapsui,
F I N N I S H
F E A T U R E
35mm, Digibeta | 1:1,85 / 16:9 |
Premiere: February 26, 2010
Markku Lehmuskallio
Script: Anastasia Lapsui
Cinematography:
Johannes Lehmuskallio
Editing: Juho Gartz
Sound design: Sergei Zabenin
Set design: Nedko Seratetto, Irina Jevai
Cast: Nadezhda Pyrerko,
Aleksandra Okotetto, Anastasia Lapsui,
Jevgeni Hudi, Roza Laptander,
Gregori Anaguritsi, Nadezhda Vanuito,
Pjotr Tuboltsev, Nedko Seratetto,
Ljudmila Zanikova, Ljudmila Libatova
Producers: Jouko Aaltonen,
Pertti Veijalainen
Production company: Illume Ltd.
Production support:
YLE Co-productions
Pirkanmaa Film Centre PEK
www.lastofherfamily.fi
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Pudana – Last of Her Family
[
S u k u n s a
v i i m e i n e n
]
A story of change, upbringing and deprivation of identity, set in the Yamal Peninsula during the days
of Soviet government and is based on a true story in director Lapsui’s childhood surroundings.
A little Nenets girl called Neko is taken against her will from the tent her family lives in to
a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign culture and new
customs, Neko rebels against the Russification to which she is subjected and, consequently, gets
bullied by her schoolmates and singled out by her teachers. After several conflicts, Neko decides
to flee together with her Nenets schoolmate, hoping to get back to her family and old way of life.
However, the children’s flight in the icy forests and tundra is short-lived and their return to the
boarding school and their new Russian life is inevitable.
The story is told as old Neko’s, or now Nadja’s, memory. Now, after a long and full life, she recalls the moment that ended her childhood and started her life as a part of the other society. But
something important has changed forever; Neko, the last of her family, has grown away from her
original roots and lost her skill to sustain the ancient traditions of her family.
Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio
The collaboration of Nenets-born Lapsui (1944, Yamal Peninsula, Russia)
and Lehmuskallio (1938, Rauma, Finland) has lasted for almost two decades,
resulting in 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. Lehmuskallio has directed films since 1973. Indigenous people and cultures play
a leading role in his films. The local people performing in his fiction films
give them a touch of reality and verity that is seldom seen on screen.
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F I L M S
Director, script: Jalmari Helander
Cinematography: Mika Orasmaa
Editing: Kimmo Taavila
Sound design: Tuomas Seppänen,
F I N N I S H
F E A T U R E
35mm | 1:2,35 cinemascope |
Premiere: December 3, 2010
Timo Anttila
Music: Juri Seppä, Miska Seppä
Set design: Torunn Anfinsen,
Liv Ask, Runar Waag Johnsen
Costumes: Saija Siekkinen
Cast: Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila,
Per Christian Ellefsen, Tommi Korpela,
Rauno Juvonen, Peeter Jakobi, Ilmari
Järvenpää, Jonathan Hutchings
Producer: Petri Jokiranta
Production company: Cinet
Co-producers: Knut Skoglund / Pomor
Film (Norway), Anna Björk / Davaj Film
(Sweden), François-Xavier Frantz / Love
Streams Agnes b. Productions (France)
Production support: FilmCamp, Filmpool
Nord, The Finnish Film Foundation,
Norwegian Film Institute, NFTF, Media
YLE TV1, Canal+ France
www.rareexportsmovie.com
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Rare Exports
A film for those who think they don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore.
Black comedy, suspense, fantasy with a realistic approach. Based on the director’s award-winning shorts that have already acquired a cult reputation on the internet.
Jalmari Helander
Helander (b. 1976) has directed commercials and worked with a
number of big brands. He is known for his short films Rare Exports
Inc. (2003) and Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions (2005).
Placed on a website, the shorts gathered nearly half a million viewers in just a few months. The films have been awarded at several
festivals. Director Luc Besson approached Helander with a request
to include Rare Exports Inc. in his annual showcase compilation of
the world’s best short films. Helander’s style is action-based and very
cinematographic, with a twist of comedy.
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F I L M S
F E A T U R E
16:9 Anamorphic, 1:1,85 Widescreen |
Dolby Digital | 78’ |
Premiere: February 12, 2010
Director: Mari Rantasila
Script: Sinikka Nopola, Tiina Nopola
Cinematography: Timo Heinänen
Editing: Tuuli Kuittinen
Sound design: Risto Iissalo
Music: Iiro Rantala
Set design: Minna Santakari
Costumes: Niina Pasanen
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief
[
R i s t o
R ä p p ä ä j ä
F I N N I S H
Luoto, Martti Suosalo, Ulla Tapaninen,
Annu Valonen, Marcus Groth,
Joel Bonsdorff, Puntti Valtonen,
Jukka Rasila, Martti Syrjä, Pantse Syrjä
Producers:
Mari Rantasila
Lasse Saarinen, Rimbo Salomaa
Production company: Kinotar Oy
Mari Rantasila (born 1963) is
one of Finland’s most successful
actors and singers, who has also
proved her talent as a director.
Her previous films include
Ricky Rapper (Risto Räppääjä,
2008) Kiltin yön lahjat (2004),
Parting (Pieniä eroja, 2002) and
Grapefruit (Greippi, 1999).
YLE Co-productions
Nordisk Film Oy
www. ristorappaaja.fi
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p o l k u p y ö r ä v a r a s
]
Ricky Rapper’s adventures continue in a fabulous new musical comedy.
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief is a touching and action-packed musical comedy, which
takes us on a completely new set of adventures by Ricky. Serena Rapper and Lennart Lindberg
decide to go on a vacation and Fanny Freezer comes to take care of Ricky and Nelly Noodlehead.
Ricky gets a fancy new bike as a consolation. Unfortunately, the new bike disappears inexplicably.
This sets off a wild adventure in which all the key characters mysteriously cross paths. And what
is the role of Bertil and Robert Rosenbögel and a hospital headed by oddly behaving doctors in
all this?
Cast: Severi Heikkilä, Lauramaija
Production support:
j a
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2 0 1 0
F I L M S
F E A T U R E
1:2,35 | Dolby Digital | ~100’ |
Premiere: August 2010
Director: Marja Pyykkö
Script: Laura Suhonen, Marja Pyykkö
Cinematography: Konsta Sohlberg
Editing: Mikko Sippola
Sound design: Panu Riikonen
Music: Antti Lehtinen
F I N N I S H
Set design: Antti Nikkinen
Costumes: Tiina Kaukanen
[
S i s k o
t a h t o i s i n
j ä ä d ä
]
A bittersweet story about 15-year-old Emilia and her struggle between family and passionate
friendship when she is trying to find her own path and identity.
Emilia has always been the responsible one in her family. Emilia’s parents are divorced, and
the children live with their dad. In the absence of their mother, Emilia looks after her little sister,
and her dad says that Emilia “will always do well.” On the last day of the summer vacation, Emilia
meets Siiri, who seems to be everything Emilia wishes she was: brave, free and independent. It
is friendship at first sight, and Emilia’s life soon revolves around Siiri. But can freedom be found
in a symbiotic relationship with Siiri? Emilia has to find the courage to break free from Siiri in
order to become whole and find her own path. Should I Stay is a film about the pain and beauty of
being young.
Cast: Ada Kukkonen, Sara Melleri,
Anna-Leena Uotila, Seppo Pääkkönen,
Kristiina Halttu, Heikki Nousiainen
Producers: Markus Selin,
Jukka Helle, Piia Nokelainen
Production company: Solar Films Oy
Production support:
Channel Four Finland
Distributor in Finland: Nordisk Film Oy
International sales: TrustNordisk
www.solarfilms.com
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Should I Stay
Marja Pyykkö
Marja Pyykkö (b. 1975) has studied film directing at the
School of Motion Picture, TV and Production Design of the
University of Art and Design Helsinki since 2002. She has
previously directed the TV film Here Lies Aino Koski (Tässä
lepää Aino Koski, 2007), the short films Rispect (2004) and
Tango (2003) and a number of advertising films. In addition,
she has worked as an assistant director, in casting tasks and
as a film, television and stage actress. Should I Stay is the first
feature film directed by her.
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F I N N I S H
F E A T U R E
F I L M S
35mm | 1:2,35 | Dolby digital | 99’ |
Director: Saara Saarela
Script: Selja Ahava, Saara Saarela
[
Vä ä r ä t
j u u r e t
]
Drama about the traditions and legacy of the Kuura family. For the first time in years, the family is
united under one roof by the father’s defective gene. During an unpredictable winter, they search
for balance between secrets and truths. The parents have to face themselves and their repressed
fears. At the same time the children are trying to find their place in the family and understand
their heritage.
Cinematography:
Rauno Ronkainen F.S.C.
Editing: Harri Ylönen
Music: Marko Nyberg
Set design: Anu Maja
Costumes: Tiina Kaukanen
Cast: Milka Ahlroth, Pertti Sveholm,
Niko Saarela, Silva Robbins,
Vieno Saaristo
Producer: Liisa Penttilä
Production company: Edith Film Oy
Co-producer: Film i Väst
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, NFTF
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Twisted Roots
Saara Saarela
Saara Saarela (born 1971) has studied film history in France and
graduated from the University of Art and Design Helsinki’s School
of Motion Picture, TV and Production Design with a Master in
Arts in 2008. Her previous works include Stripping (Hengittämättä
ja nauramatta, 2002), a number of TV series, among them
Jako kahteen (2004), a 10-episode TV series about a family on the
verge of divorce, and Poikkeustila (2006), a 12-episode TV series
about a refugee reception center. Saarela has also directed several
award-winning short films and commercials.
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F I N N I S H
Script: Timo Koivusalo,
based on novels by Väinö Linna
Cinematography: Pertti Mutanen
Editing: Jyrki Luukko, Timo Koivusalo
Sound design: Jyrki Luukko,
Olli Pärnänen
Set design: Markku Myllymäki
Costumes: Leila Jäntti
Cast: Ilkka Koivula, Vera Kiiskinen,
Risto Tuorila, Ritva Jalonen, Heikki
Nousiainen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman,
Jonna Järnefelt, Sulevi Peltola, Miia
Selin, Esko Roine, Sara Paavolainen,
Topi Salmela, Eija Vilpas, Jukka
Leisti, Mikko Nousiainen, Elena Leeve
Producer: Timo Koivusalo
Production company: Artista Filmi Oy
Production support:
www.artistafilmi.fi/tpa
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[
Tä ä l l ä
P o h j a n t ä h d e n
a l l a
]
Akseli Koskela is the son of a parsonage crofter who finds it impossible to submit to the role of
a faithful and humble servant required of him by the conservative upper class. Unlike previous
generations who had no other alternative, Akseli begins dreaming of freedom and the right to his
own lands, fuelled by the new and stirring ideologies of the time. The uncertainty of life strikes
with force as the parsonage reclaims most of the fields that Akseli’s father has cleared out of raw
marshland. The grim and irreconcilable bitterness caused by this makes Akseli take an interest
in social issues. He joins the local Workers’ Association, but its moderate and pacifist views don’t
satisfy Akseli for long, and he joins the Red Guard, whose purpose is to claim by force that which
is not given to the working class by peaceful action: the right to the fruits of their own labour.
In 1918, Finland’s bitter and bloody Civil War divides the people in two. Focused and strongwilled, Akseli is promoted to the position of company commander and, after the Reds’ devastating defeat, is put in charge of a hopeless mission: leading a ragged refugee caravan, fleeing the
victors’ revenge, across the border to safety.
Timo Koivusalo
Timo Koivusalo (born 1963) is the managing director
and owner of Artista Filmi. Since 1994 he has directed
11 feature films. He is a producer, director, writer,
editor, TV-host and composer. He has received several
film and TV awards. His latest films include The Leaning
Tower (Kalteva torni, 2006), Sibelius (2003), Shadow of
the Eagle (Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa, 2005) and
The Rose of a Rascal (Rentun ruusu, 2001).
Photos: Susanna Palin
2 0 1 0
F I L M S
Director: Timo Koivusalo
F E A T U R E
35mm, Digital Cinema print | 1:1,85 |
Premiere: December 4, 2009
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2 0 1 0
F I L M S
Director, script: Timo Koivusalo
F I N N I S H
F E A T U R E
Cinematography: Pertti Mutanen
Editing: Jyrki Luukko, Timo Koivusalo
Sound design: Olli Pärnänen
Music: Jaakko Kuusisto
Set design: Markku Myllymäki
Costumes: Leila Jäntti
Cast: Ilkka Koivula, Vera Kiiskinen,
Risto Tuorila, Ritva Jalonen, Jonna
Järnefelt, Hannu-Pekka Björkman,
Esko Roine, Sara Paavolainen, Sulevi
Peltola, Miia Selin, Ville Virtanen,
Sampo Sarkola, Reino Nordin, Miina
Turunen, Jukka Leisti, Tapani Kalliomäki, Jari Salmi, Antti Luusuaniemi,
Anna Lipponen, Aku Hirviniemi
Producer: Timo Koivusalo
Production company: Artista Filmi Oy
Production support:
www.artistafilmi.fi/tpa
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Under the North Star 2
[
Tä ä l l ä
P o h j a n t ä h d e n
a l l a
2
]
After being freed from a prison camp, Akseli Koskela retires away to his tenant farm, cultivating
the land and bitterly trying to come to terms with the ghosts of his past. Without sparing himself,
he works for the future of his children. When the day finally comes that Akseli is allowed to buy
the tenant farm for himself, he imagines that everything will turn for the better, but fate has different plans in store for him.
The Winter War breaks out. The Soviet Union tries to invade Finland. Although torn by civil war
twenty years earlier, the Finnish nation now stands united, and the impossible happens. Despite
being vastly outnumbered, the Finns stop the enemy, but at a heavy price for the entire country,
and for Akseli. His two youngest sons are killed and, to Akseli’s shock, his third son chooses a
career in the military instead of farming the family’s lands. Akseli’s worst fears are realised when
his eldest son also dies at the front, during the waning moments of the Continuation War.
Finland keeps its independence, as does Akseli, who is now a landowner – but has all of it
been worth it? In Akseli’s own words: “What’s the use of all this, if nothing remains? What’s the
use of Koskela (farm)? From the first push of my father’s shovel into the ground, a lifetime of toiling, and in the end, nothing...”
Timo Koivusalo
Koivusalo (b. 1963) is the managing director and owner of Artista Filmi.
Since 1994 he has directed 11 feature films. He is a producer, director,
writer, editor, TV host and composer. He has received several film and TV
awards. His latest films include Under the North Star (Täällä Pohjantähden alla, 2009), The Leaning Tower (Kalteva torni, 2006), Sibelius (2003)
and Shadow of the Eagle (Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa, 2005).
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F I N N I S H
D O C U M E N T A R Y
F I L M S
2009 | HDCAM | 16:9 |
Stereo | 72’
[
P o i k i e n
b i s n e s
]
All Boys looks at the social and individual impact of the boy porn industry. It shows men in Eu-
Director, script: Markku Heikkinen
rope’s boy porn business struggling with commerciality and the passing beauty of youth, poverty
and the loneliness of gay consumers. Gay porn is the fastest growing segment of the entertainment business. The film consists of complementing episodes that expose the production chain of
East European boy porn. Where do the porn boys come from originally, and how do they work?
It is the poor, uneducated, unemployed young men without strong family ties or social networks
who drift into the porn industry and its ‘foster care’. For some it offers survival and peers in the
porn community, at least for a while – but in many cases the quick, easy money comes at a high
cost in the long run. For consumers porn is mainly entertainment, but it may often also serve to
alleviate the same wounds, the same loneliness, as in the production side of the business. It is an
exploitation of the lonely on all sides.
Editing: Joona Louhivuori
Sound design: Olli Huhtanen
Music: Tobias Wilner
Markku Heikkinen
Producer: Cilla Werning
Raised in Kainuu and brought to Helsinki by the
railway, Markku Heikkinen is a documentary
film maker and radio reporter. He has completed
an M.A. at the Department of Film at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He has made
documentary films and programmes since 1993
and worked as a freelance radio reporter for the
Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE’s different
channels since 1986.
Production company: Kinotar Oy
Co-producer: Bullitt Film (DK)
Production support:
DFI, NFTF
YLE, DR (DK)
International sales: First Hand Films
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All Boys
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F I N N I S H
Arabian Shores
[
F I L M S
2 0 1 0
2009 | HDV | 16:9 | 90’
A r a b i a n r a n t a
]
Arabian Shores is a film about the birth of a community in a new residential area and about people in pursuit of their dreams. Shooting for the film began in 2000 and continued until the end
of 2008. This nine-year period will give birth to a film in which Arabian Shores emerges from
an empty wasteland into a community with an identity of its own – a spirit of “us Arabians”. The
focus of the film will be on how the residents and the laws governing the birth of an urban community together lay a foundation for the future – and for man’s quest for the Good Life.
Pekka Uotila
Director, script:
Pekka Uotila, Heikki Partanen
Cinematography: Pekka Uotila
Editing: Kimmo Kohtamäki
Sound design: Heikki Partanen
Music: Mauri Sumén
Producer: Heikki Partanen
Production company:
Pekka Uotila (b. 1958) has graduated from the Department of
Film at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 1992. He
is a film industry professional specialising in cinematography,
and works as a cinematographer and film director. Uotila has
worked as the chief cinematographer in over twenty documentary films, four fiction feature films that have been distributed
to theatres and several TV dramas of different types. He has
also directed documentary films.
Alppiharjun Elokuva Oy
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Production support:
HT Partanen
HT Partanen (b. 1949) has directed 16 documentary films and
produced approximately 40.
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is an intimate documentary about young Finnish women who left Finland after the Lapland War broke out in September 1944 and moved to Germany with the retreating German soldiers. Most of the women returned to Finland during 1948, and they were
interrogated as potential spies. Once at home, the women faced mockery and ridicule or total silence surrounding their stay in Germany. Children fathered by German soldiers, especially, were
treated cruelly for decades.
The women, now in their 80s, and their children are the main characters in this documentary.
The film portrays the sometimes agonizing struggle of the elderly women; the women are trying
to explain their past to themselves and to their loved ones. In the film, alongside with the women’s
stories, we’ll see shots of collapsed Germany, filmed in colour by American soldiers in 1945.
Filled with black humour, this film is a poetic portrayal of young people who went on an adventure towards the unknown. It’s a story of feeling like an orphan and the need to be loved.
We’ll see mothers and their children while being given the opportunity to ask ourselves whether
a reconciliation is possible.
Director, script: Virpi Suutari
Cinematography: Heikki Färm
Editing: Jukka Nykänen
Sound design: Olli Huhtanen
Music: Pekka Kuusisto,
Johanna Juhola
Producer: Cilla Werning
Production company :
For Real Productions Oy
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK,
MEDIA Programme
Financing TV companies :
YLE Co-productions, ARTE
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Virpi Suutari
Suutari (b. 1967) has written and directed a number of internationally
awarded documentary films with her colleague Susanna Helke; their
films include, among others, Sin – Documentary about Everyday Crimes
(Synti, 1995), The White Sky (Valkoinen taivas, 1998),
The Idle Ones (Joutilaat, 2001) and Along the Road Little Child
(Pitkin tietä pieni lapsi, 2005).
Suutari became a member of the European Film Academy in 2001.
Photo: Virpi Suutari
2 0 1 0
F I N N I S H
F I L M S
2010 | HDCAM | 16:9 |
5.1 Stereo | 78’
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Freetime Machos
Director, script:
A documentary about the most northern and third worst rugby club in the world. A touching
comedy about men lost somewhere between a hobby, home, and work. A true and manly love
story.
Mika Ronkainen
Cinematography:
Vesa Taipaleenmäki
Editor: Anders Villadsen
Sound design: Esa Nissi
Music: Samuli Putro,
Ahti Marja-aho
Producers: Mika Ronkainen,
Kimmo Paananen
Production company:
Klaffi Productions
Co-producer: Prounen Film /
Michael Trabitzsch
Production support:
NFTF, AVEK, POEM
YLE Co-Productions,
TV2 Norway, NDR, ARTE
www.freetimemachos.com
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Mika Ronkainen
Mika Ronkainen’s (born 1970) work includes
the prize-winning and acclaimed documentaries
Screaming Men (Huutajat, Best Nordic Documentary
2003, selected for Sundance 2004), Our Summer
(Meän kesä, 2004), and Car Bonus (Autobonus,
2001). Works also as a producer, editor and
composer. Co-founder of Air Guitar World
Championships. Apart from gardening,
Ronkainen doesn’t have any physical hobbies.
Photo: Pekka Fali
2 0 1 0
F I L M S
F I N N I S H
2009 | 35mm, Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 86’ / 52’
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F I N N I S H
F I L M S
2010 | Digibeta, HDCAM | 16:9 |
Stereo | ~70’
Directors, script:
Pasi Riiali, Mikko Peltonen
Cinematography: Pasi Riiali,
Jukka Koskinen, Kimmo Yläkäs,
Mikko Peltonen, Raimo Uunila
Editing: Jari Heikkinen,
Pasi Riiali, Mikko Peltonen
Sound design: Janne Jankeri
Music: Kaapo Huttunen
Producer: Pasi Riiali
Production company:
Mediatehdas Dakar Oy
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK
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Home Dreams
[
S u o m e a
r a k e n t a m a s s a
]
Throughout time, Finns have built their own houses. At the moment, thousands of families are
building their homes. Home Dreams portrays the house-building process in today’s Finland. The
film follows people from the moment they reserve a piece of land until the day they move into
their new house.
The Särkiniemi family is building their house by themselves. The family consists of a father, a
mother and two small children. For the last two years, the family has spent all their free time on
their dream of a new home. How does the family hold up under the mental pressure caused by
finances and the environment they live in?
Pentti Kyllönen is a businessman. He builds homes for others. His business is going well until
the recession hits Finland in the middle of a building process.
Home Dreams is a film that should be seen by everyone who’s ever wanted to build a house.
Pasi Riiali & Mikko Peltonen
Pasi Riiali graduated from the Tornio College of Art
and Media. He is a producer-director at Mediatehdas Dakar. Mikko Peltonen graduated from the
University of Jyväskylä. He works as a director-producer at Filmstone.
The directors have been working together for
a decade. Their first film, a documentary titled
The Campaign (Vaalitaisto, 2005), was liked by
both audiences and film festival juries.
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2 0 1 0
F I N N I S H
F I L M S
2010 | DVD, Digibeta,
Digital Cinema print | 16:9 |
Dolby Stereo | 90’
[
E p ä i l y k s e n
v a r j o s s a
–
e l o k u v a
A l p o
R u s i s t a
]
is a documentary film about what happens when people try to find a
crime for the accused instead of looking for the accused for a crime. The main character in the
film is Alpo Rusi, a Finnish diplomat and former presidential adviser. The film is based on Rusi’s
personal experiences and writings as well as on investigative material gathered by his supporters.
In the Shadow of a Doubt sheds light on the preliminary investigation carried out by the Finnish
Security Police, the different phases of the public witch hunt that followed and interpretations of
what happened. The film takes a close look at the memory and the recent history of our country,
at guilt and shame and at a constitutional state and its political elite.
Director: Pekka Lehto
Script: Beatrix A. Wood, Pekka Lehto
Cinematography:
Pekka Lehto
Kasimir Lehto, Teppo Högman
Editing: Jussi Rautaniemi
Sound design: Joakim Nyström
Music: Lasse Enersen
Producer: Pauli Pentti
Pekka Lehto has directed the documentary films Brothers of the Forest
(V.O.I.T.K.A. – metsän veljet, 2004), The Real McCoy (1998), Boy Hero 001
(1997), The Temple (Temppeli, 1991), Alone (Yksinteoin, 1991), Nine Ways
to Approach Helsinki (Yhdeksän tapaa lähestyä Helsinkiä, 1982), Swastika
(Vaaran merkki, 1978) and Their Age (Ikäluokka, 1976). His films have
won many prizes, and they have been broadcast internationally and
released theatrically. He has also directed the feature films Game Over
(2005), Tango Cabaret (Tango Kabaree, 2001), The Well (Kaivo, 1992),
Da Capo (1985), 250 Grammes (250 grammaa, 1983), Flame Top (Tulipää,
1980) and The First Co-operative ’39 (Kainuu 39, 1979).
Production company:
First Floor Productions
Production support:
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Directors, script:
Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen
[
E l ä m ä n
l ä m m ö s s ä
]
A film where naked men sit in a sauna and talk straight from the heart. In the heat given by rusty
stoves, Finnish men cleanse themselves both physically and mentally.
The film takes us on a journey across the country and stops on a number of sauna benches
to listen to touching stories of life, death, birth, friendship, life. The unpretentious camerawork
shows the men as images that are nearly magical. The presence of the men and the depth of their
emotions are close to such intensity that it’s almost impossible to watch the film. The film offers
us an unexceptionally intimate look into the bare souls of the men and forms a poetic portrait of
the Finnish man.
Cinematography:
Heikki Färm, Jani Kumpulainen
Editing: Timo Peltola
Sound design: Christian Christensen
Music: Jonas Bohlin
Producer: Joonas Berghäll
Production company: Oktober Oy
Co-producer: Röde Orm Film
Production support:
SFI, NFTF, MEDIA Programme
YLE, SVT, ETV
Films Transit International
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In the Steam of Life
Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen
Berghäll (b. 1977) graduated from the Tampere School of Art and Media
in 2005. In 2004 he founded a film production company, Oktober Ltd,
together with Mika Hotakainen and Katja Gauriloff. He is a producer and
the managing director of the company. Besides working as a director, he
has produced The Smoking Room (Tupakkahuone, 2006), A Shout Into the
Wind (Huuto tuuleen, 2007) and Canned Dreams (in prod., 2010).
Hotakainen (b. 1977) graduated as a director in 2004 from the
Helsinki Polytechnic University, Department of Art and Media. Mika
has worked in the television and film industry since 1998. In 2004, he
co-directed a long documentary film, titled Freedom to Serve (Valtio
vapauden vei), with Joonas Berghäll. In 2007, he directed a short fiction
titled Visitor (Ensimmäinen Eskelinen).
Photo: Jani Kumpulainen
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2010 | 35mm, Digibeta |
16:9 (1:1,85) | Dolby Digital |
82’ / 52’
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2008 | 35mm, HD, Digibeta |
16:9 | Dolby Digital | 111’
[
S e i t t i
–
k i l v o i t t e l i j a n
p ä i v ä k i r j a
]
Set in Tokyo, Ito – A Diary of an Urban Priest tells the story of Yoshinobu Fujioka, a young Buddhist
priest, and his fervent search for the meaning of life amid oppressive dreams, back alleys of the
city and the darkness of the human mind. Yoshinobu hears confession in a women’s prison, bars
and an old geisha house while the many layers of nocturnal Tokyo and unpredictable memories
are twisted into a web that drives people face-to-face with one another. Dreams, reality and fiction
are blended in this study of the complexity of the human mind, which takes us on an exploration
of memory while facing oneself and encountering others.
Director, editing: Pirjo Honkasalo
Script: Pirjo Honkasalo, Miika Pölkki
Cinematography: Pirjo Honkasalo
F.S.C., Marita Hällforss F.S.C.
Sound design: Joonas Jyrälä,
Miia Nevalainen, Panu Riikonen,
Kozo Hosomi
Producer: Kristiina Pervilä
Production companies:
Millennium Film, Baabeli
NHK Japan, YLE TV2
Production support:
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Ito – A Diary of an Urban Priest
Pirjo Honkasalo
Pirjo Honkasalo (born in 1947) is an established director,
screenwriter, producer and photographer who has won countless awards for her work. She directed several films in the 1970s
and 80s with Pekka Lehto (including Da Capo, 1985). In the
1990s, she made the so-called Trilogy of the Sacred and the Evil,
consisting of the films Mysterion (1991), Tanjuska and the
7 Devils (Tanjuska ja 7 perkelettä, 1993) and Atman (1996).
In 2004 she made the multiple award-winning The 3 Rooms of
Melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta).
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K i n n v i k a
–
V i i m e i n e n
r a j a
]
Director, editing: Petteri Saario
Script: Timo Humaloja, Petteri Saario
Petteri Saario
Cinematography: Petteri Saario,
Petteri Saario (born 1961) is a
documentary maker, who specializes
in depicting the endangered relationship between man and nature. Besides
directing, producing and shooting, he
is also familiar with underwater and
wildlife filming. Many of his films have
been awarded both in Finland and
abroad.
Anton Leppälä, Janne Henriksson
Producer: Timo Humaloja
Kinovid Productions
Production support:
YLE TV2 Documentaries
Photo: Petteri Saario
F I N N I S H
[
In a place where the last ice age still prevails, a group of geologists is going to spend a few weeks
in the High Arctic in Spitzberg. In the sediment layers they are looking for new evidence on the
mechanisms of climate changes, including several enormous ice ages on the European continent,
during the last 100 000 years.
This expedition is their greatest dream. No one can predict what will happen hundreds of
miles away from the nearest habitation. Here we can understand the basic theme of the film, the
eternal passion that scientists feel when they look for new pieces of knowledge while risking their
health and sometimes their life. They have to worry about the roaming polar bears; that’s why
they have to carry rifles all the time and know how to shoot – to kill.
In these circumstances a cool scientist has to face his own concept of life. In the High Arctic
you can have a real look into the motives that have carried you this far. These people are true
descendants of the old explorers.
Production company:
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Kinnvika – The Last Border
Photo: Maarit Gabrielsson
2 0 1 0
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2010 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo |
90’ / 55’
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2009 | 2K, Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 79’
[
M a g n e e t t i m i e s
]
Editing: Joona Louhivuori
is a film about people who have found strength in their own individuality and
acquired powerful means for personal development, through songs of a virtually unknown Finnish musician Pekka Streng.
One of these people is the film’s director, Arto Halonen, for whom the production process is a
journey of inner discovery. The people featured in the film listen to Streng’s music in a trance-like
state in order to feel an association with the underlying significance of the pieces. They strive to
create a connection between the music and their own process of personal development.
At the same time, those who were close to Streng tell the fascinating story of a media-shy,
mystical musician who died of cancer as a young man. The Streng family decides to bring the
songwriter’s memory back to life with the help of new studio technology, by publishing new songs
derived from unreleased demo tapes.
The film is about the huge influence a virtually unknown individual can have on his environment
and about how we leave traces that can live on and affect others powerfully after we are gone.
Sound design: Heikki Innanen
Arto Halonen
Music: Pekka Streng
Halonen has directed numerous award-winning films, e.g. the documentaries Shadow of the Holy Book (Pyhän kirjan varjo, 2007), Pavlov’s Dogs (Pavlovin koirat, 2005), The Stars’ Caravan (Taivasta vasten, 2000) and Karmapa
– Two Ways of Divinity (Karmapa – jumaluuden kaksi tietä, 1998). In 2005
he got the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in the arts given by the
Ministry of Culture. In 1998 he received the European Humanitarian Award,
and in 2008 the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honoured him as one of
the most important documentary filmmakers of his generation.
He is the founder of DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.
The Magnetic Man
Director, script: Arto Halonen
Producer: Arto Halonen
Production company:
Production support:
AVEK, ESEK/Luses
YLE TV2 Documentaries
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The Magnetic Man
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F I N N I S H
F I L M S
2010 | Digital Cinema print | 16:9 |
Dolby Digital | 90’
Director, script: Kim Finn
Cinematography: Jussi Arhinmäki
Editing: Speedy Durga
Sound design: Jari Alakoskela
[
M a t t i
N y k ä n e n
–
o m i n
s a n o i n
]
The story of Matti Nykänen, which has taken mythological dimensions, is known by winter sports
fans throughout the world. However, so far one view is still missing. Matti’s own.
According to the tabloid press, Matti is just a foolish Finnish drunk messing around and
cracking stupidities, getting himself into trouble. It’s easy to moralize and laugh at him – even
maliciously. A more careful observation reveals that Matti is just a human, a master of situation
comedy, mostly thinking of himself as a misunderstood eternal kid with ADHD whose innocence
and directness represents something which we can all identify with.
The documentary focuses on Matti’s own version of his life until now. Here Matti unveils the
stories that haven’t been told yet. He reveals his own version of the legends built by the press by
showing us the real person behind the media scandals. The aim is to reach an atmosphere which
gives a minimal impression of personal manipulation – the film will be an intimate, warm, lyrical
and comical dive into the Finnish mental landscape. The story will be told by Matti himself; no
other storytellers are needed.
Matti Nykänen – By His Own Words is a great story told by a human being.
Music: Simon Bartholomew, Luis
Ramirez Moya, Shock tilt
Producer: Aarni Kuorikoski
Production company: Blue Media Oy
Production support:
Deckert Distribution
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Matti Nykänen – By His Own Words
Kim Finn
Kim Finn was the writer/director/editor of Riot On! (2004), which became
the first Finnish documentary ever to be aired prime time on BBC in the
UK. Finn has written/directed/edited several documentaries for YLE; his
works include I Draw Therefore I Am, Rhyme and Nonsense, Brave Boys,
Manhattan Rendez-Vous and Marketing Psychosis of the 3rd Degree. He has
also edited documentaries for Channel 5 and Channel Four in the UK and
also directed Ten Questions on Why Democracy for BBC.
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F I N N I S H
F I L M S
2010 | 35mm, 2K Digital Cinema,
HDCAM, Digibeta, DVD | 16:9 |
Dolby Digital 5.1 & Stereo | 81’ / 59’
Director, script, cinematography:
Visa Koiso-Kanttila
Editing: Tuula Mehtonen
Music: Bill Frisell
Producer: Iiris Härmä
Production company:
Guerilla Films Ltd
Production support:
AVEK, Church Media Foundation
YLE TV1 Co-productions
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Portrait of a Man
[
M i e h e n
k u v a
–
e l o k u v a
r a k k a u d e n
k a i p u u s t a
]
What is the mental legacy and set of values that the liberal late 1960s and early 1970s gave to the
people who were born and grew up during that time, to the people who are now approaching
middle-age?
The main character of the documentary is Kalle Rissanen, a 39-year-old successful IT educator
and single father. Kalle is going through a crisis which has spurred him to change the course of
his life. Kalle wakes up to the fact that his father committed suicide exactly at the same age and
exactly in the same situation as he is in. Kalle wants to find out what made his father choose
suicide and how he could avoid the same fate. On his journey, Kalle meets a number of different
men: relatives and childhood friends who are ready to share their life experiences. The men talk
about their relationship with their children, alcohol and first and foremost, with women. They
wonder how they’re supposed to be and live with women when nothing seems to be enough. They
shouldn’t be the macho men their fathers were, but at the same time, the Finnish women don’t
seem to appreciate nice guys, either...
Visa Koiso-Kanttila
M.A. Visa Koiso-Kanttila was born in Finland in 1970.
He has won several awards at film festivals. Visa
Koiso-Kanttila directs and produces his films in cooperation with his wife and colleague Iiris Härmä.
Portrait of a Man is the last part of Koiso-Kanttila’s
trilogy on Finnish boys and men; the first two were
Father to Son (Isältä pojalle, 2004) and A Winter’s
Journey (Talvinen matka, 2007).
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Director, script:
F I N N I S H
F I L M S
2010 | Digital Cinema print,
Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 75’
Producers:
Tonislav Hristov
Cinematography:
Peter Flinckenberg
Editing: Kim Finn
Sound design: Anne Tolkkinen
Music: Petar Doundakoff
Kaarle Aho, Kai Norberg
Production company:
Making Movies Oy
Co-producer: Agitprop (BUL)
Production support:
YLE TV1, NRK
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Rules of Single Life
A romantic documentary about love in a foreign city. Four Bulgarian guys emigrate to Helsinki.
Disillusioned with love, they decide to give themselves a task. In 12 months, they need to find girlfriends in Helsinki. Otherwise, they figure, they won’t cope with Nordic ladies ever again.
The men start a well-organized self-development and women hunting process. Internet dates,
sport dates, courses in dancing and tantric sex – not to mention a date with a whole female volleyball team.
Still, love is always full of surprises. The past – especially ex-wives and ex-girlfriends – won’t
leave the men in peace. And the present is also full of surprises: Why don’t all women put their
photos on the dating sites of the Internet? Why do Finnish men have less hair than Bulgarian
men? Is sex a cure for solitude? And can anyone anywhere really get to know another person in
12 months?
Tonislav Hristov
Tonislav Hristov was born in Vratza,
northern Bulgaria, in 1978. In 1999
he moved to Finland. He has a MSC in
computer engineering (2002) and a MA
in film making (2007). He has worked for
years as a freelancer for YLE and has made
several TV documentaries. His first featurelength documentary film Family Fortune was
released in 2007.
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k i r k k o
]
follows the story of one man’s dream about a church which believes in the tradition
of the Bible.
Markku Koivisto, a Lutheran minister, believes that the end of the world is coming and is in a
hurry saving souls. He is disillusioned with the stagnant state church and decides to start one of his
own. New church, Nokia Missio, quickly gains popularity as a colourful, living church, full of music and joy. But how do you finance a church; will it get enough members to form a congregation?
Koivisto has been cured of lethal cancer by what he calls a miracle; not once, but twice. How
have his personal hardships affected his values?
Saving Souls is a documentary which immortalizes a historically unique occasion; a revival
movement’s secession from the state church.
Director, cinematography:
Saku Pollari
Script: Saku Pollari,
Ilkka Hynninen
Editing: Kimmo Kohtamäki
Sound design, music:
Poppe Johansson
Animation: Teemu Åke
Producers:
Ilkka Hynninen, Eero Hietala
Production company: Aito Media
Church Media Foundation
YLE International
Saku Pollari
Saku Pollari has previously directed Kansalainen
Jussila, an award-winning documentary on Petteri
Jussila, a successful and controversial Finnish selfmade businessman. Pollari has shot, directed and
edited a number of Finnish TV programs. He studied
audiovisual production at North Carelia College,
Outokumpu. Pollari has always been interested in
people. He loves to watch how people behave and
likes books and films based on true events.
Photos: Mika Kanerva
F I N N I S H
U u s i
Saving Souls
Production support:
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F I N N I S H
S a l l a n
s t r a t e g i a
(w o r k i n g
t i t l e)
]
Selling the Silence is a creative documentary film. It witnesses the rise and fall of a family of entre-
preneurs, the Kuukkanen family from Salla, Lapland, side-by-side with the current changes in the
values of our society. In combining private and personal family memories with ongoing changes
in the scenery, the documentary asks how to avoid irreversible changes in the nature when earning your living.
Selling the Silence is a journey to the North, past and present. Sometimes the journey can be
surprising, sometimes sad, sometimes absurd in a black Finnish way. When the film asks what is
the price of the wilderness, it is also a question of identity: Who are you really? What is your real
nature?
Director: Markku Tuurna
Script: Markku Tuurna, Tarja Kylmä
Cinematography: Jarkko T. Laine
Editing: Kimmo Taavila
Markku Tuurna
Sound design: Kyösti Väntänen
Filmmaker and producer Markku Tuurna
is renowned for his documentaries with a
unique social point of view (for example,
a fox farmer’s story in today’s high-tech
Finland: One Hundred Generations /
Sata sukupolvea, 1999). In Selling the Silence,
the director leaps into new fields; he opens
the family files and wants to find out the truth
about the current changes in Lapland.
Music: Kimmo Pohjonen
Producer: Markku Tuurna
Production company: Filmimaa Oy
Production support:
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
YLE, ARTE, SVT
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Selling the Silence
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2 0 1 0
F I L M S
2010 | HDCAM, DVCProHD,
Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 75’
F I N N I S H
[
H i l j a a
t o i v o t u t
]
is a story about two childless couples who use infertility treatments to have biological children of their own.
The film shows an emotional journey of a man and a woman when they go through endless
infertility treatments, dividing their life between home and the infertility clinic. It tells how the
woman’s hormones take control not only of her own life, but also her man’s. Uncertainty about
the future and the infertility treatments with their side effects challenge the relationship. It is
difficult to approach other people and talk about the situation. The idea of one’s own child turns
into a silent longing with no certainty of fulfillment.
Silent Longing tells how involuntary childlessness can hurt deeply. Childlessness forces the
characters to make difficult decisions and think about their lives, its meaningfulness and about
the future – with or without a child. Childlessness remains with them even after their child is
born, as nothing can erase their experiences of infertility. It also forces them to confront the
thoughtlessness of other people and life in a child-centered society.
Silent Longing
Director, script: Timo Haanpää
Cinematography: Timo Haanpää,
Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
Sound design: Kimmo Vänttinen
Producer: Janne Niskala
Production company:
Vaski Filmi Oy
Production support:
YLE Co-productions
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Silent Longing
Timo Haanpää
Timo Haanpää (born 1967), MA, M.Ed,
works as a full-time teacher at the
University of Lapland. His previous film
(a co-direction) was Reaching Father
(Isien merkit, 2007). Timo has experienced infertility for seven years, which
provides him with a personal viewpoint
on the subject.
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F I N N I S H
[
Ve s k u
S u o m e s t a
]
A documentary film about Vesa-Matti Loiri, alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV
comedian in Finland. Vesa-Matti Loiri has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to
tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse and Eino Leino, one of
the best-known Finnish poets. During his unique career, he has played in more than 60 films and
recorded 30 albums.
Director, script:
Mika Kaurismäki
Mika Kaurismäki
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. He has since directed films all around the world. His work includes,
e.g. the fictional films The Worthless (Arvottomat, 1982), Rosso (1985), Helsinki
Napoli All Night Long (1987), Amazon (1990), LA Without a Map (1998), Honey
Baby (2004) and the documentaries Tigrero – A Film That Was Never Made
(1994, with Sam Fuller and Jim Jarmusch), Brasileirinho (2005) and Sonic Mirror (2007). In 2008, after 17 years of not filming in Finland, he directed two
Finnish fictional films, Three Wise Men (Kolme viisasta miestä, 2008) and The
House of Branching Love (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo, 2009).
Cinematography:
Jari Mutikainen, Tahvo Hirvonen
Producer: Mika Kaurismäki
Production company:
Marianna Films Oy
Production support:
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Vesku from Finland
Photo: Miikka Pirinen
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2010 | Digital Cinema print |
16:9 | 5.1 | 90’
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2009 | HDV | 16:9 | 70’
F I N N I S H
The story line of the documentary is clear: a voyage down the river from Moscow to the Caspian
Sea. The documentary articulates its ideas on many levels. It combines a sharp associative perception of reality with a mythic fresco depicting the history of the river. The elements of the film
are the voyage on the river and the passengers on the riverboat coming from all over Europe;
the cultural contradictions, the ancient wild nations, the Soviet Union, the Russia of today and,
finally, the observing Europeans.
This film is about all of us, about Europe.
Director, script: Marja Pensala
Marja Pensala
Cinematography: Vladimir Brulyakov,
Pensala has worked in several capacities in the field of cinema since
1969 – as scriptwriter, editor, producer and director. She has worked in
fiction, commercials, TV programmes and industrial, educational and
other commissioned films. Since 1981, she has carried out independent
documentary film production as producer, scriptwriter, editor and director. Among other films, she has directed two internationally awarded
documentaries in Russia. The Eclipse of the Soul (Sielun pimennys,
2001) and The Red Rocket (Punainen raketti, 2004). In both of these
films Pensala concentrates on the essence of the “Russian soul”.
Alexander Burov, Marita Hällfors
Editing: Timo Linnasalo
Sound design: Tero Malmberg
Producer: Heikki Partanen
Production company:
Production support:
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Volga, Volga
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F I L M S
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vanha
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Top Films in Finland 2009
All films
2008
The Simpsons Movie
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Ratatouille
Christmas Story (local)
Shrek the Third
V2 Dead Angel (local)
Ganes (local)
Casino Royale
Die Hard 4.0
Night at the Museum
Spider-Man 3
Ocean’s Thirteen
The Queen
Tali-Ihantala 1944 (local)
The Bourne Ultimatum
Black Ice (local)
300
Mystery of the Wolf (local)
Premiere
Admissions
2008
27.7.2007
22.5.2007
13.7.2007
30.3.2007
19.10.2007
16.11.2007
31.8.2007
12.1.2007
28.9.2007
24.11.2006
26.6.2007
16.2.2007
4.5.2007
8.6.2007
26.1.2007
7.12.2007
17.8.2007
19.10.2007
6.4.2007
15.12.2006
415 000
362 446
362 306
307 188
261 557
242 800
240 818
193 600
169 558
158 309
134 000
130 000
128 000
121 542
112 881
110 000
95 000
94 735
80 139
68 350
Cumulative
2007–2008
526 930
102 268
Local Films 2009
Finnish films 2008
vanha
Premiere
Admissions 2008
Christmas Story
V2 Dead Angel
Ganes
Tali-Ihantala 1944
Black Ice
Quest for a Heart
The Matriarch
Year of the Wolf
Colorado Avenue
The Border
A Man’s Job
Playing Solo
Lone Star Hotel (doc)
Family Meeting (doc)
16.11.2007
12.1.2007
28.9.2007
7.12.2007
19.10.2007
14.12.2007
14.9.2007
2.2.2007
7.9.2007
30.11.2007
23.2.2007
28.12.2007
2.3.2007
2.11.2007
242 800
193 600
171 578
120 094
94 735
65 341
57 530
56 835
54 823
52 279
48 656
31 870
6 346
1 766
Mystery of the Wolf
The Leaning Tower
Rock’n Roll Never Dies
15.12.2006
20.10.2006
22.12.2006
68 350
15 724
7 105
Cumulative 2007–2008
102 268
80 237
9 899
Total 1 289 432
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F I N N I S H
Facts in Figures
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Releases
189
184
181
166
169
Screens
336
332
330
316
320
Admissions in millions
6,9
6,1
6,7
6,5
6,9
51,8
44,9
50,3
50,8
54,5
Ticket price average (€)
7,3
7,4
7,5
7,8
7,9
Per capita attendances
1,3
1,2
1,3
1,2
1,3
Finnish feature films
18
15
16
14
19
17 %
15 %
24 %
20%
23%
Gross box-office in millions (€)
Share of Finnish films
80
Finnish Feature Films 1.1.2004–31.12.2009
Release Date Title of Film
in Helsinki
16.1.2004
13.2.2004
5.3.2004
5.3.2004
9.4.2004
23.7.2004
20.8.2004
27.8.2004
10.9.2004
17.9.2004
15.10.2004
17.12.2004
25.12.2004
14.1.2005
11.2.2005
18.2.2005
12.8.2005
26.8.2005
9.9.2005
30.9.2005
7.10.2005
21.10.2005
2.12.2005
Levottomat 3
Koirankynnen leikkaaja
Framom främsta linjen – Etulinjan edessä
Jumalan morsian
Joensuun Elli
Vares
Ystäväni Henry
Juoksuhaudan tie
Uuno Turhapuron tarina – This Is My Life
Lapsia ja aikuisia – kuinka niitä tehdään?
Kukkia ja sidontaa
Pelikaanimies
Keisarikunta
Paha maa
Onnen varjot
Eläville ja kuolleille
Koti-ikävä
Game Over
Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa
Äideistä parhain
Valo
Tyttö sinä olet tähti
Lupaus
Production Company
Director
Addiction
Dog Nail Clipper
Beyond the Front Line
A Bride of the Seventh Heaven
Elli
Solar Films Inc.
Minna Virtanen
Fennada-filmi Oy
Markku Pölönen
Åke Lindman Film-Production Oy
Åke Lindman
Millennium Film Oy Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio
Helsingin Dexline Oy
Anssi Mänttäri
Solar Films Inc.
Aleksi Mäkelä
My Friend Henry
Do Films Oy
Auli Mantila
Trench Road
Kinotar Oy
Veikko Aaltonen
Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life Ere Kokkonen Oy
Ere Kokkonen
Producing Adults
Blind Spot Pictures Oy
Aleksi Salmenperä
Flowers and Binding
Helsinki -filmi Oy, Kinotaurus Oy
Janne Kuusi
Pelicanman
Lumifilm Oy
Liisa Helminen
Harbour Brothers
Mandart Entertainment Oy
Pekka Mandart
Frozen Land
Solar Films Inc.
Aku Louhimies
Shades of Happiness
Kinoproduction Oy
Claes Olsson
For the Living and the Dead
Sputnik Oy
Kari Paljakka
Homesick
Making Movies Oy
Petri Kotwica
KinoFinlandia Oy
Pekka Lehto
Shadow of the Eagle
Artista Filmi Oy
Timo Koivusalo
Mother of Mine
MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy
Klaus Härö
Periferia Productions Oy
Kaija Juurikkala
Beauty and the Bastard
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Dome Karukoski
Promise
Fantasiafilmi Oy
Ilkka Vanne
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30.12.2005
13.1.2006
20.1.2006
3.2.2006
10.2.2006
17.2.2006
31.3.2006
11.8.2006
8.9.2006
15.9.2006
13.10.2006
20.10.2006
17.11.2006
15.12.2006
22.12.2006
12.1.2007
2.2.2007
23.2.2007
16.3.2007
7.9.2007
14.9.2007
28.9.2007
19.10.2007
16.11.2007
30.11.2007
7.12.2007
14.12.2007
28.12.2007
11.1.2008
FC Venus
Matti
Unna ja Nuuk
Laitakaupungin valot
Saippuaprinssi
Kummelin Jackpot
Duudsonit elokuva
Onni von Sopanen
Keisarin salaisuus
Riisuttu mies
Jadesoturi
Kalteva torni
Valkoinen kaupunki
Suden arvoitus
Rock’n’Roll Never Dies
V2 – jäätynyt enkeli
Suden vuosi
Miehen työ
Uusi ihminen*
Colorado Avenue
Lieksa!
Ganes
Musta jää
Joulutarina
Raja 1918
Tali-Ihantala 1944
Röllin sydän
Sooloilua
Tummien perhosten koti
Matti – Hell Is for Heroes
Unna and Nuuk
Lights in the Dusk
The Prince of Soap
Jackpot
The Dudesons Movie
The Emperor’s Secret
Man Exposed
Jade Warrior
The Leaning Tower
Frozen City
Mystery of the Wolf
V2 Dead Angel
Year of the Wolf
A Man’s Job
The New Man
The Matriarch
Black Ice
Christmas Story
The Border
Quest for a Heart
Playing Solo
The Home of Dark Butterflies
Talent House
Solar Films Inc.
Mandart Entertainment
Sputnik Oy
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Jackpot Films Oy
Oy Rabbit Films Ltd.
Production House
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Lasihelmi Filmi Oy
Artista Filmi Oy
Solar Films Inc.
Kinoproduction Oy
Filmtotal Oy
Solar Films Oy
Kinoproduction Oy
Kinoproduction Oy
Suomen Filmiteollisuus Oy
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Making Movies Oy
Snapper Films Oy
Border Productions Oy
Åke Lindman Film-Production Oy
Solar Films Inc.
Joona Tena
Aleksi Mäkelä
Saara Cantell
Aki Kaurismäki
Janne Kuusi
Pekka Karjalainen
Jarno Laasala
Johanna Vuoksenmaa
Riina Hyytiä
Aku Louhimies
AJ Annila
Timo Koivusalo
Aku Louhimies
Raimo O Niemi
Juha Koiranen
Aleksi Mäkelä
Olli Saarela
Aleksi Salmenperä
Klaus Härö
Claes Olsson
Markku Pölönen
JP Siili
Petri Kotwica
Juha Wuolijoki
Lauri Törhönen
Åke Lindman & Sakari Kirjavainen
Pekka Lehtosaari
Lauri Nurkse
Dome Karukoski
* Swedish-Finnish co-production
25.1.2008
1.2.2008
8.2.2008
15.2.2008
18.4.2008
15.8.2008
29.8.2008
5.9.2008
12.9.2008
26.9.2008
10.10.2008
24.10.2008
14.11.2008
5.12.2008
26.12.2008
9.1.2009
23.1.2009
30.1.2009
13.2.2009
27.2.2009
20.3.2009
3.4.2009
21.8.2009
4.9.2009
25.9.2009
9.10.2009
23.10.2009
20.11.2009
4.12.2009
8 päivää ensi-iltaan
8 Days to Premiere
Kolmistaan
Three in Love
Dark Floors – The Lordi Motion Picture
Risto Räppääjä
Ricky Rapper
Muumi ja vaarallinen juhannus Moomins and Midsummer Madness
Myrsky
Stormheart
Käsky
Tears of April
Erottamattomat
Sisters Apart
Kummeli alivuokralainen
The Subtenant
Päätalo
The Novelist
Niko – lentäjän poika
Niko & The Way to the Stars
Sauna
Kolme viisasta miestä
Three Wise Men
Putoavia enkeleitä
Falling Angels
Blackout
Rööperi
Hellsinki
Maata meren alla
Overseas and Under Your Skin
Muukalainen
The Visitor
Kielletty hedelmä
Forbidden Fruit
Ralliraita
Rally On!
Toinen jalka haudasta
One Foot Under
Postia pappi Jaakobille
Letters to Father Jacob
Haarautuvan rakkauden talo
The House of Branching Love
Skavabölen pojat
Kuulustelu
The Interrogation
Väärät juuret
Twisted Roots
Pihalla
Playground
Thomas
Täällä Pohjantähden alla
Juonifilmi
Perttu Leppä
Petfilms Oy
Peter Lindholm
Solar Films Inc.
Pete Riski
Kinotar Oy
Mari Rantasila
Filmkompaniet Alpha
Maria Lindberg
Stormheart Ltd.
Kaisa Rastimo
Helsinki -filmi
Aku Louhimies
Kinotar Oy
Hanna Maylett
Solar Films Inc.
Matti Grönberg
Hannu Kahakorpi
Anima Vitae & Cinemaker
Michael Hegner & Kari Juusonen
Bronson Club
AJ Annila
Marianna Films Oy
Mika Kaurismäki
Blind Spot Pictures
Heikki Kujanpää
Filmiteollisuus Fine
JP Siili
Solar Films Inc.
Aleksi Mäkelä
Silva Mysterium Oy
Lenka Hellstedt
Helsinki -filmi Oy
J-P Valkeapää
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Dome Karukoski
Markku Pölönen
Dionysos Films Oy
Johanna Vuoksenmaa
Kinotar Oy
Klaus Härö
Marianna Films Oy
Mika Kaurismäki
Juonifilmi Oy
Zaida Bergroth
Jörn Donner
Edith film Oy
Saara Saarela
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Toni Laine
Silva Mysterium Oy
Miika Soini
Artista Filmi
Timo Koivusalo
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Film Festivals in Finland 2010
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
26.–31.1.2010
Fredrikinkatu 23, FI-00120 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 672 472, Fax +358 9 673 998
info@docpoint.info
www.docpoint.info
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival
20.–29.8.2010
PO Box 95, FI-02101 Espoo
Tel. +358 9 466 599, Fax +358 9 466 458
office@espoocine.fi
www.espoocine.fi
Tampere International Short Film Festival
10.–14.3.2010
Tullikamarinaukio 2, FI-33101 Tampere
Tel. +358 3 223 5681, Fax +358 3 223 0121
office@tamperefilmfestival.fi
www.tamperefilmfestival.fi
Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy
16.–26.9.2010
Mannerheimintie 21–24, Box 889
FI-00101 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6843 5230, Fax +358 9 6843 5232
office@hiff.fi
www.hiff.fi
Sodankylän elokuvajuhlat –
Midnight Sun Film Festival
16.–20.6.2010
Kansanopistontie 5, FI-99600 Sodankylä
Fax +358 16 614 522
office@msfilmfestival.fi
www.msfilmfestival.fi
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Oulu International Children’s Film Festival
15.–21.11.2010
Hallituskatu 7, FI-90100 Oulu
Tel. +358 8 881 1293
Fax +358 8 881 1290
info@oufilmcenter.inet.fi
www.oukafi/lef
International Sales Companies
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Marienplatz 1
D-04103 Leipzig
Tel. +49 341 215 6638
Fax +49 341 215 6639
info@dekert-distribution.com
www.deckert-distribution.com
m-appeal e.K.
Prinzessinnenstrasse 16
D-10969 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 6150 7505
Fax +49 30 2758 2872
berlinoffice@m-appeal.com
www.m-appeal.com
TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 12
DK-2650 Hvidovre
Tel. +45 3686 8788
Fax +45 3677 4448
info@trustnordisk.com
www.trustnordisk.com
Films Transit International
166 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003
USA
Tel. / Fax +1 212 614 2808
www.filmstransit.com
The Match Factory
Balthasarstrasse 79–81
D-50670 Cologne
Tel. +49 221 5397 090
Fax +49 221 5397 0910
info@matchfactory.de
www.the-match-factory.com
Wide Management
40, rue Sainte-Anne
FR-75002 Paris
Tel. +33 1 5395 0464
Fax +33 1 5395 0465
wide@widemanagement.com
www.widemanagement.com
First Hand Films
Mehringdamm 33
D-10961 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 2852 9088
Fax +49 30 2852 9099
www.firsthandfilms.com
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Useful Addresses
Actors in Scandinavia
Tarkk’ampujankatu 14
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6840 440
Fax +358 9 6840 4422
laura@actors.fi
www.actors.fi
Anorak Agency
Korkeavuorenkatu 2 B
FI-00140 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 534 4248
Fax +358 9 6120 8519
agency@anorak.fi
www.anorak.fi
Agency Unreal
Korkeavuorenkatu 2b
FI-00140 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 330 1515
sanna@agencyunreal.com
www.agencyunreal.com
The Association of Finnish
Film Directors – SELO ry.
PO Box 177
FI-00531 Helsinki
info@selo.fi
www.selo.fi
Animation Clinic –
Finnish Animation Association
c/o Suomen Elokuvakontakti
Pohjoisranta 20 B 23
FI-00170 Helsinki
info@animaatioklinikka.fi
www.animaatioklinikka.fi
The Association of Finnish
Film Workers – SET ry.
Meritullinkatu 33 A
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 2511 2143
Fax +358 9 2511 2191
set@teme.fi
www.teme.fi/set
The Association of
Independent Producers in
Finland – SATU ry.
Fabianinkatu 4 B 14
FI-00130 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 684 0610
Fax +358 9 622 1860
stiina.laakso@satu.fi
www.satu.fi
Broadcast Text Helsinki –
The all-round text & language
service in film, TV & video
Sörnäisten rantatie 27 C
FI-00500 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4133 7700
Fax +358 9 4133 7730
kirsi.airos@broadcasttext.fi
www.broadcasttext.fi
AVEK – The Promotion
Centre for Audio-Visual
Culture in Finland
Hietaniemenkatu 2
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4315 2350
Fax +358 9 4315 2377
avek@avek.kopiosto.fi
www.kopiosto.fi/avek
The Central Organisation of
Finnish Film Producers – SEK ry.
Kaisaniemenkatu 3 B 29
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6877 2311
Fax +358 9 6877 2320
filmikamari@filmikamari.fi
www.filmikamari.fi
Channel Four Finland – Nelonen
PO Box 350, FI-00151 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 45 451
www.nelonen.fi
Digital Film Finland Oy
Katajanokan laituri 11 B
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6877 000
Fax +358 9 6877 0033
info@df.fi
www.digitalfilmfinland.fi
Favex – Finnish Film &
Audiovisual Export
Fabianinkatu 4 B 14
FI-00130 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 752 7777
Fax +358 9 622 1860
petra.theman@favex.fi
www.favex.fi
The Finnish Board of
Film Classification
Jaakonkatu 5 B
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 2285 41
Fax +358 9 2285 4470
tuula.roos@vet.fi
www.vet.fi
The Finnish Broadcasting
Company YLE
FI-00024 Yleisradio
Tel. +358 9 14 801
www.yle.fi
The Finnish Chamber of Films
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6877 2315
Fax +358 9 6877 2320
The Finnish Cinema
Exhibitors’ Association –
SEOL ry.
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6877 2315
Fax +358 9 6877 2320
The Finnish Film Contact
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6129 720
Fax +358 9 6129 7210
filmcont@elokuvakontakti.fi
www.elokuvakontakti.fi
The Finnish Film Distributors’
Association – SEL ry.
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6877 2315
Fax +358 9 6877 2320
Media Desk Finland
c/o The Finnish Film
Foundation
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 3013
Fax +358 9 6220 3070
kerstin.degerman@ses.fi
www.mediadesk.fi
MTV3 Finland
FI-00033 MTV3
Tel. +358 10 300 300
www.mtv3.fi
National Audiovisual Archive
PO Box 16
FI-00501 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 615 400
kava@kava.fi
www.kava.fi
State Committee for Cinema
PO Box 293
FI-00171 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 1607 7064
mari.karikoski@minedu.fi
University of Art and Design
Helsinki – School of Motion
Picture, Television and
Production Design
Hämeentie 135 C
FI-00560 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 47 001
info@taik.fi
www.taik.fi/elo
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Distributors in Finland
Cinema Mondo
Unioninkatu 10 A 27
FI-00130 Helsinki
Tel. +358 201 555 804
Fax +358 201 555 805
mikas@cinemamondo.fi
Digital Cinema Matila & Röhr Oy –
Bio Rex Distribution
Tallberginkatu 1 A / 141
FI-00180 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5407 8243
Fax +358 9 5407 8210
Finnkino Oy
Koivuvaarankuja 2
FI-01640 Vantaa
Tel. +358 9 131 191
Fax +358 9 8527 206
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FS Film Oy
Urho Kekkosenkatu 4–6 E, 5. krs.
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 207 300 460
Fax +358 207 300 461
Future Film Oy Ab
Rantakatu 2 G 10
FI-65100 Vaasa
Tel. +358 6 3199 500
Fax +358 6 3199 555
info@futurefilm.fi
Kinoscreen Ltd.
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5893 8861
Fax +358 9 5893 8860
kinoscreen@jippii.fi
Metropol Cinema
Särkiniementie 5 C 25
FI-00210 Helsinki
Tel.+ 358 40 837 3465
Fax +358 9 684 7263
metropol.cinema@netti.fi
Nordisk Film Oy
John Stenbergin ranta 2
FI-00530 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4764 460
Fax +358 9 4764 4640
Rapid Eye Movie Ltd.
Mannerheimintie 19 B 4
FI-00250 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 7542 949
Fax +358 4544 626
Finland Oy Ab
Eteläesplanadi 24 A
FI-00130 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 8866 7707
Fax +358 9 8866 7710
Oy Scanbox Finland
Hiomotie 19
FI-00380 Helsinki
Tel. +358 207 811 850
Fax +358 207 811 751
saril@scanbox.com
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Finland
Kaisaniemenkatu 2 B
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 8562 9500
Fax +358 9 8562 9550
Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
PO Box 432
FI-33101 Tampere
Tel. +358 3 223 4912
Fax +358 3 222 6525
pek@elokuvakeskus.fi
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Producers
Festival contacts:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3050
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
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Aamu Filmcompany Ltd.
Hiihtomäentie 34
FI-00800 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6874 4980
Fax. +358 9 6874 4981
info@aamufilmcompany.fi
www.aamufilmcompany.fi
Merimiehenkatu 10
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4159 3640
Fax +358 9 4159 3690
info@artfilms.inet.fi
www.artfilmsproduction.com
Viipurinkatu 16 B 22
FI-00510 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 148 1636
alppiharjunelokuva@jippii.fi
Artista Filmi Oy
PO Box 244
FI-28101 Pori
Tel. +358 2 647 7441
Fax. +358 2 647 7551
susanna@artista.fi
www.artistafilmi.fi
Anima Vitae Ltd.
Vanha Talvitie 11 A
FI-00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 207 749 810
Fax +358 207 749 819
info@anima.fi
www.anima.fi
Merimiehenkatu 36 D
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 593 7714
Fax +358 9 710 061
spot@blindspot.fi
www.blindspot.fi
Border Production
Urho Kekkosen katu 4–6 E
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 20 7300 466
Fax +358 20 7300 461
jarkko.hentula@border.fi
Bronson Club
Hämeentie 11
FI-00530 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 590 9999
jesse@bronson.fi
www.bronson.fi
Bufo
Meritullinkatu 9 A 21
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel. +358 45 131 4652
info@bufo.fi
Cine Works Oy
Kansankuja 6
FI-00680 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 386 1266
petri.rossi@cineworks.fi
www.cineworks.fi
Cinemaker Oy
Iso Roobertinkatu 17 D
FI-00120 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 278 5060
Fax +358 9 278 5242
cinemaker@cinemaker.fi
www.cinemaker.fi
Cinet
Kristianinkatu 2 C 46
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 841 7442
petri.jokiranta@cinet.fi
www.cinet.fi
Crystal Eye Ltd.
Tallberginkatu 1 / 44
FI-00180 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 694 2308
Fax +358 9 694 7224
mail@crystaleye.fi
www.crystaleye.fi
Dionysos Films Oy
Pengerkatu 18 A LH4
FI-00500 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7530 600
Fax +358 9 7740 3060
riina.hyytia@dionysosfilms.fi
Filmiryhmä Oy
Huvilakatu 7 B 17
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 5025 025
virke@filmiryhma.fi
www.filmiryhma.fi
Edith film Oy
Vuorimiehenpuistikko 6
FI-00140 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6124 9660
Fax +358 9 6227 0026
info@edithfilm.fi
www.edithfilm.fi
Filmitakomo Oy
Merimiehenkatu 10
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. + 358 9 4159 3620
Fax + 358 9 4159 3690
filmitakomo@luukku.com
Epidem ZOT
Sepänkatu 15 B
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 684 6612
Fax +358 9 684 6614
wahlforss@epidem.pp.fi
Filmiteollisuus Fine
Vanha talvitie 11 A
FI-00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7740 300
Fax +358 9 7740 3060
Filmkompaniet Alpha
Maurinkatu 2
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5622 123
Fax +358 9 5622 125
tom@pointalvin.com
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First Floor Productions
Fredrikinkatu 61 A 6
FI-00100 Helsinki
firstfloor@firstfloor.fi
F I N N I S H
FS Film Oy
Urho Kekkosenkatu 4–6 E
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 207 300 454
Fax +358 207 300 461
matti.halonen@fs-film.fi
Giron-filmi Oy
Vanha viertotie 6 B 12
FI-00350 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 685 4429
Festival contacts:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3050
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
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Hakalax Productions Oy
Topeliuksenkatu 3b 9A
FI-00260 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 852 1448
hakalax@hakalaxproductions.com
www.hakalaxproductions.com
Helsinki -filmi Oy
Vanha Talvitie 11 A
FI-00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7740 300
Fax +358 9 7740 3060
aleksi.bardy@helsinkifilmi.fi
www.helsinkifilmi.fi
Illume Ltd.
Palkkatilankatu 7
FI-00240 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 148 1489
illume@illume.fi
www.illume.fi
Ilokuva Naukkarinen & Co
Palotie 23 B
FI-02760 Espoo
Tel. +358 9 855 4860
Fax +358 9 881 3592
ilokuva@ilokuva.fi
www.ilokuva.fi
Juonifilmi Oy
Urho Kekkosenkatu 4–6 A
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 20 7300 451
Fax +358 20 7300 452
jarkko.hentula@juonifilmi.fi
www.juonifilmi.fi
Katharsis Films Oy
Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 37 B
FI-00260 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 7257 707
Fax +358 9 3422 121
hiltunen@kaapeli.fi
www.kafi.fi
J.W. Documentaries Oy
Kapteeninkatu 8 F 12
FI-00140 Helsinki
Tel. +358 500 615 345
Fax +358 9 6873 1910
websters@dlc.fi
Kinoproduction Oy
Pasilan vanhat veturitallit
FI-00520 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6850 460
Fax. +358 9 6850 4610
kino@kinoproduction.fi
www.kinoproduction.fi
PO Box 214
FI-00171 Helsinki
Tel. +358 45 674 0272
misha@bufo.fi
Kinotar Oy
Työpajankatu 10 A, 2. krs
FI-00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7740 040
Fax +358 9 7740 0444
kinotar@kinotar.com
www.kinotar.com
Kiti Luostarinen Production Ky
Nastolantie 36 A
FI-00600 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 792 648
kiti.luostarinen@kolumbus.fi
Klaffi Productions Ltd.
Nahkatehtaankatu 2
FI-90100 Oulu
Tel. +358 8 8811 623
Fax +358 8 8811 624
klaffi@klaffi.com
www.klaffi.com
Kroma Productions Ltd.
Magnusborg studios
FI-06100 Porvoo
Tel. +358 19 5348 015
Fax +358 19 5348 016
kroma@magnusborg.fi
www.kromaproductions.net
Lasihelmi Filmi Oy
Hankaintie 17
FI-06100 Porvoo
Tel.+358 40 541 6900
Fax + 358 9 7742 8350
konttori@lasihelmi.fi
www.lasihelmi.fi
LR Film Productions Oy
Caloniuksenkatu 9 D 63
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 490 696
Lumifilm Oy
Mariankatu 24 L
FI-00170 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 622 5882
lumifilm@lumifilm.fi
www.lumifilm.fi
Making Movies Oy
Linnankatu 7
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 682 9540
Fax +358 9 6842 7870
mamo@mamo.fi
www.mamo.fi
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Marianna Films Oy
Punavuorenkatu 5 A 2
FI-00120 Helsinki
Tel./Fax +358 9 622 1614
marianna.films@gmx.net
F I N N I S H
MatilaRöhrNordisk Oy
Tallberginkatu 1 A / 141
FI-00180 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5407 820
Fax. +358 9 5407 8210
mrp@matilarohr.com
www.matilarohr.com
Festival contacts:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3050
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
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Meguru Production
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 3014
meguru@meguru.fi
Millennium Film Ltd.
Koskikartanontie 12
FI-75530 Nurmes
Tel. +358 13 511 0100
Fax +358 13 511 0111
millennium@millenniumfilm.fi
www.millenniumfilm.fi
Mokul Filmi Oy
Porkonjärventie 49
FI-68320 Ruotsalo
Tel. +358 50 559 3864
kossi.heikki@kolumbus.fi
www.mokulfilmi.com
Mouka Filmi Oy
Vilhonvuorenkatu 11 B 7
FI-00500 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 731 4354
Fax +358 9 488 692
sami@mouka.fi
www.mouka.fi
Oktober Oy
Uutiskatu 3
FI-00240 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 709 3331
joonas@oktober.fi
www.oktober.fi
Periferia Productions Oy
Santerinkuja 5
FI-90420 Oulu
Tel. +358 40 541 2922
outi.rousu@periferiaproductions.fi
www.periferiaproductions.fi
Petfilms Oy
Pitäjänmäen asema
FI-00370 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 5617 800
Fax +358 9 5617 8010
petfilms@petfilms.fi
www.petfilms.fi
Pystymetsä Oy
3. linja 5
FI-00530 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 541 2922
outi@pystymetsa.fi
RT Documentaries Oy
Runeberginkatu 28 B 11
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 445 049
Fax +358 9 490 692
rtd@saunalahti.fi
Silva Mysterium Oy
Pulttitie 16
FI-00880 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7594 720
Fax +358 9 7594 7240
mika.ritalahti@silvamysterium.fi
www.silvamysterium.fi
Snapper Films Oy
World Trade Center Helsinki
Aleksanterinkatu 17,
PO Box 800
FI-00101 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6969 3560
Fax +358 9 6969 3569
juha.wuolijoki@snapperfilms.com
www.snapperfilms.com
Solar Films Inc.
Veneentekijäntie 20
FI-00210 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4174 4700
Fax +358 9 4174 4744
markus.selin@solarfilms.com
www.solarfilms.com
Sputnik Oy
Museokatu 13 A
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6877 100
Fax +358 9 6877 1010
sputnik@sputnik.fi
www.orimattila.fi/kirjasto/
kaurismaki
Stormheart Ltd.
Puhurinpolku 1 A
FI-02120 Espoo
Tel. +358 40 416 7729
Fax +358 9 460 510
info@stormheart.fi
Olli Tiaisentie 9
FI-80790 Kontioranta
Tel. +358 40 7633 708
www.suomenfilmiteollisuus.fi
Timeless Films Lepola & Molin
Aurinkokuja 9
FI-33420 Tampere
Tel. +358 3 4108 8089
Fax +358 3 4108 8081
tf@timelessfilms.com
www.timelessfilms.com
Unilumi Oy
Lumimetsä
FI-99800 Ivalo
Tel. +358 40 761 5089
juha.koivisto@unilumi.com
www.unilumi.com
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Inside cover, front: Should I Stay by Marja Pyykkö | Inside cover, back: Lapland Odyssey by Dome Karukoski
Back cover: Lapland Odyssey by Dome Karukoski, Princess by Arto Halonen, Pudana – Last of Her Family by Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio,
Should I Stay by Marja Pyykkö, If You Love by Neil Hardwick, Should I Stay by Marja Pyykkö
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Editor: Satu Elo | Translations / Editing: Said Dakash (features) / Aretta Vähälä (documentaries) | Layout: Maikki Rantala, Praxis Oy |
Printed by: Erikoispaino Oy, Helsinki, 2010 | ISSN 1796-0738
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