2001 film by Pekka Lehto

Guerrilla style documentary about Finnish Neo-Nazi and occult wacko Pekka Siitoin.

Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

1999 film directed by Pekka Lehto

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

1985 film by Pirjo Honkasalo

DD (Eric Ericson), mit richtigem Namen Donny Davidsson, ist ein durchschnittlicher Großstädter mit einem dafür typischen Leben. Als Lifestyle-Journalist hat er Zugang zu Edel-Partys und den angesagtesten Events in Stockholm. In einer Nacht passiert etwas Seltsames: eine offenbar sehr durcheinander scheinende Frau setzt sich mit zu Donny ins Taxi. Sie wird von dunklen Gestalten verfolgt, und einige Sekunden später ist sie schon wieder verschwunden. Kurze Zeit später wird Donny in seiner Wohnung von der geheimnisvollen Promise (Eva Röse) gebeten, auf einen glänzenden Würfel aufzupassen. Doch die dunklen Gestalten sind kurz danach bereits auf dem Weg und durchwühlen seine Wohnung auf der Suche nach dem Würfel. Donny geht dem Hinweis auf einer Streichholzschachtel nach, was ihn zu einem Computerspiel namens "Storm" führt ...

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.