פעמונים סגולים

30 years after their emigration, Danni interviews his family and tries to learn their story to reconcile with the past.

Kuuhun ja takaisin - keskioluen tarina

Documentary about medium strength beer in Finland.

The Perfect Selfie

Teenager Olivia Oras has 20,000 Instagram followers. The documentary follows a year of her life.

Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

The Age of Kommunalki

A unique documentary about an inheritance of communism. An hidden world: the world of Kommunalki. In Saint Petersburg a lot of different people of different ages, culture and background live together in rooms inside big flats where they share common areas as the kitchen and the bathroom. This happens for 100 years... Since the October Revolution.

Путешествие в будни. О городе Сургуте и его жителях

oil workers, builders, geologists

Tchernobyl, la dernière bataille de l'URSS

Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and sanitary disaster that made Pripiat a part of History. How did the greatest industrial disaster change the course of History, disrupt global geopolitics and, directly or indirectly, redistribute the balances and power relations of the twentieth century? The world will never be the same again. By retracing the incredible battle waged by the Soviet Union against radiation, this film proposes to retrace and enlighten an extraordinary story, while exploring the historical stakes in the medium and long-term…

Karjalaisen kulttuurin säilyminen

The preservation of the Karelian culture. About how the evacuated Finnish Karels have acclimatized themselves to the indigenous people and how the Karelian culture has been preserved during the ages of change. Reportage and interviews with ordinary people and experts made during the summer of 1968. Faces of the Finnish Karelian people. Images of faces that reproduce the culture and the history of the territory.

L'île aux Cannibales

A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.

Russian Roulette: Subway games

Russian Roulette takes you on a journey across Russia and Ukraine, exploring post-soviet underground- systems of Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Moscow, Nizhny, Novgorod, and St. Petersburg. The reason why there isn't a cast or a crew list and all the artists' faces are blurred is that this film portrays people breaking the law.

Atomin paluu

A portrait of a small-town that is the unlikely site of a 'renaissance' of 'safe' nuclear energy started in 2004, a project that soon spiraled out of control.

Karl Marx und seine Erben

Villilintujen parissa

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

Jare vs. Cheek

TV-documentary follows Finland's most popular hip hop artist Cheek song-making and stadium gig planning. What kind of person is Jare Henrik Tiihonen, when the Cheek is taking a break?

Yö - Kiitos ja kunnia - Live - Hartwall Areena 10-12-2011

YÖ Live at Hartwall Arena 10th of December 2011

Госпожа Тундра

A critical look at the human-nature relationship in the tundra.

Похороны Сталина

On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. And if the farewell to the composer quietly went against the backdrop of the farewell to the dictator that swept the whole country, then in the play everything is the opposite - Prokofiev's music is in the center, and it is interrupted by the stories of those people who would probably ignore Stalin's funeral and went to say goodbye to the great composer.

Naître Svetlana Staline

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves behind her country and her two children. Hunted by the press, the KGB, and many admirers, the woman, nicknamed the Kremlin princess, will never cease to flee. From the summit of the Soviet empire to the solitude and poverty of her last years in a Wisconsin home, Gabriel Tejedor traces the destiny of a resolutely free woman, at the very heart of the century and its geopolitical challenges.

Kylmää kiveä - suomikiipeilyn tarina

Documentary about the story of Finnish climbing.

Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their musical traditions with many other cultures, creating a sound that was unique to the "Copper Country."