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- In 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.
- A psychological crime drama of three seasons, each set in different era in a conservative christian community of rural northern Finland.
- A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
- One night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.
- During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "Mother of Mine" tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.
- A thriller set at the beginning of the 1980's Norwegian Oil Boom and centered on a diver whose obsession with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea leads to tragedy.
- A UN peace negotiator takes her final job before retirement to try to broker a deal between Turkey and the Kurds. She finds, however, wheels within wheels and that nothing is as it seems.
- This movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).
- A Finnish man has dreamed of becoming a Swede since childhood.
- 1942 in Helsinki. The state of Finland has made an alliance with Nazi Germany. One man alone is trying to stop the Finnish security services which were operating in secrecy, to turn over Jewish refugees into the hands of Gestapo.
- Miguel "Bayoneta" Galíndez, a retired boxer after a shocking event in his life, living now in Finland without a purpose until a light situation puts him on the verge of an important decision.
- An upbeat comedy about three boys who escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
- Set during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.
- Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit is an honest and conscientious cop; one of the city's very best. He loses his daughter in tragic circumstances and is unable to recover from his loss despite the support he receives.
- Vulnerable newborn reindeer Ailo must overcome the challenges that stand in the way of his first year of life in the stunning landscapes of Lapland.
- Stigu and Ella have a just-sex relationship. Stigu is secretly in love but settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in a same work project: designing an advertisement for the Family Federation on sustainable relationships. It seems like mission impossible since Ella doesn't believe in the whole concept and Stigu knows nothing about it.
- Troll-like rolleys find a village of goblins of the forest and take it as their own. The oldest of the rolley tribe leaves the community as it has came the time of him to rest and the tribe to choose a new lead. One rolley named Rölli follows the old leader and sees him changing into a turkey by a weird huge scale on top of a hill. New social order of the tribe does not come without conflicts in the community and between the rolleys and the goblins. One brave goblin called Milli tries to make a peace between rolleys and goblins, but rolleys can not be friends with kind creatures. Yet Milli and Rölli become partners in trying to return the balance between the good and the bad in the forest.
- Tale of the Sleeping Giant is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a journey into the rich mythology of ancient Scandinavians and Lapps told in the form of a nature movie.
- When the most mischievous resident of Rolli Village befriends a beautiful elf girl, the hopelessly mismatched pair embarks on a magical adventure to save the Forest of Elves by traveling to the Land of Winter and recovering the mythical magical heart in this animated tale of wonder for the entire family.
- An unconventional love story of a young and talented student, Sari, suffering from epilepsy, and a middle-aged lecturer Mikko, who is immersed in his own world in the 18th century poetry.
- This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
- A movie about the life of legendary Estonian singer Georg Ots.
- A documentary that unveils the primeval forests of Northern Finland, some of Europe's sole remaining, old-growth forests.
- Set in 1950's Finnish countryside an eccentric cartoonist befriends a neighboring family and convinces them to start hoarding excessively in preparation for the coldest winter ever.
- A documentary about Finnish lakes, the nature around them, circulation of water and ancient Finnish mythology.
- Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.
- In order to conduct a study on the treatment of foreigners in Finland, a man borrows the identity of his immigrant friend.
- A family comedy about a 7-year-old boy, who's a devoted viking fan.
- A contractor wants to become a writer but his unhappy marriage and financial problems are suppressing him.
- EMMA AND DANIEL - THE MEETING is a touching drama for children/family, based on a book by well renowned children's author Mats Wahl. Several of Wahl's books have been filmed previously. 12-year old Emma lives with her father Anders in a fishing camp, way up in Lappland in the Northern part of Sweden. Life consists of fishing trips, forest expeditions and a quiet life. Emma's father has met a woman, Sara from Stockholm, through a personal ad. To Emma's horror, she is planning to visit them over the summer, together with her 12-year old son, Daniel. The nature loving Emma, who's still mourning her dead mother, doesn't appreciate the visit from the big city at all. Neither does Daniel, a computer freak who hates the idea of being stuck with grumpy Emma in the middle of nowhere, without electricity and everything! In an attempt for some peace and quiet, Emma decides to join the old fisherman Isak for a three-day fishing trip up the river in the wilderness. To her disappointment, Daniel decides to join them. Suddenly, what was supposed to be a peaceful fishing trip, turns into unexpected drama, and Emma and Daniel find themselves all alone with just one another, forced to help each other to be able to find their way back home.
- One day they hear incredible news from Malcolm the Maggot: somewhere far away, beyond mountains, forests and the sea, lies a place called The Beginning of All Time. Rolli and little girl Juniper decide to find out the secret route to The Beginning of All Time. They are in for the greatest adventure of their lives.
- A visual and delicately poetic story about the relationship between a swimmer and water. A young competitive swimmer meets the world's fastest woman swimmer in her dreams and races her.
- The elusive underwater world of the white beluga whales, their enigma behavior, and their unique relationship to Arctic people across time is revealed in this documentary.
- Julia moves back to her childhood village to help a group of ecologists save a lake from an industrial project, but strange things start to happen as she must confront her deepest repressed secrets.
- Erkki Hakala returns home from America.
- Diving is like poetry, each movement flowing into the next.
- A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen, well beyond the usual retirement age, is told inside a fictitious plot about a Master of Ceremonies trying to persuade Aira to stage a show at his cabaret restaurant. Besides Aira Samulin, many other Finnish celebrities appear among the eccentric lineup auditioning for the show, playing more or less their fictionalised selves.
- Panu Aaltio's music transports the viewer into Finland's biodiversity in all seasons, from its forest to the lake, a gem of nature deep into the heart of this country.
- A documentary of Finnish film directors and media artists, now surrounded by the changes in audiovisual culture.