Finnish Documentary Films 2010

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Contents
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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Documentaries
(length 36–60 minutes)
1984 Helsinki Underground
Captive of Gaze
Felicity or The Apocalypse Begins
in Pieksämäki
Fight of Fate
Gaucho
Göring’s Baton
Home-Made Heroes
Iceberg Shadow
Magical Power
Man from the Congo River, A
Sisterhood Across the Gulf of Finland
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Documentaries
(length 35 minutes or less)
3 Walls
And the Oscar Goes to Mexico
Conserved (working title)
Do You Still Remember Hilma Limperi
Ismo K. – Regards to Forgone Dadaists
Kinbaku
Monster Birthday
Reborn
Rudolf Koivu
Traffic Jam
Under Our Sky
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Contacts
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2009 | HDCAM | 16:9 |
Stereo | 72’
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All Boys looks at the social and individual impact of the boy porn industry. It shows men in Eu-
Director, script: Markku Heikkinen
Cinematography: Hannu Vitikainen
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:
The Finnish Film Foundation,
DFI, NFTF
Financing TV companies:
YLE, DR (DK)
International sales: First Hand Films
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2009 | HDV | 16:9 | 90’
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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
The Finnish Film Foundation
Financing TV company: YLE TV1
HT Partanen (b. 1949) has directed 16 documentary films and
produced approximately 40.
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Auf Wiedersehen Finnland is an intimate documentary about young Finnish women who left Fin-
Director, script: Virpi Suutari
Cinematography: Heikki Färm
Editing: Jukka Nykänen
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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land 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.
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
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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
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2009 | 35mm, Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 86’ / 52’
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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
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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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Digital Cinema print | 16:9 |
Dolby Stereo | 90’
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e l o k u v a
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In the Shadow of a Doubt 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:
Kasimir Lehto, Teppo Högman
Editing: Jussi Rautaniemi
Sound design: Joakim Nyström
Music: Lasse Enersen
Producer: Pauli Pentti
Production company:
First Floor Productions
Production support:
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In the Shadow of a Doubt
Pekka Lehto
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).
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Directors, script:
Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen
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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
International sales:
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’
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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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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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Director, editing: Petteri Saario
Script: Timo Humaloja, Petteri Saario
Cinematography: Petteri Saario,
Anton Leppälä, Janne Henriksson
Producer: Timo Humaloja
Kinovid Productions
Production support:
Financing TV company:
YLE TV2 Documentaries
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.
Photo: Petteri Saario
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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
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2010 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo |
90’ / 55’
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2009 | 2K, Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 79’
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The Magnetic Man is a film about people who have found strength in their own individuality and
Director, script: Arto Halonen
Cinematography: Hannu Vitikainen
Sound design: Heikki Innanen
Music: Pekka Streng
Producer: Arto Halonen
Production company:
Art Films production AFP Oy
Production support:
AVEK, ESEK/Luses
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The Magnetic Man
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.
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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2010 | Digital Cinema print | 16:9 |
Dolby Digital | 90’
Director, script: Kim Finn
Cinematography: Jussi Arhinmäki
Editing: Speedy Durga
Sound design: Jari Alakoskela
Music: Simon Bartholomew, Luis
Ramirez Moya, Shock tilt
Producer: Aarni Kuorikoski
Production company: Blue Media Oy
Production support:
Financing TV company: YLE
International sales:
Deckert Distribution
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Matti Nykänen – By His Own Words
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M a t t i
N y k ä n e n
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o m i n
s a n o i n
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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.
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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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
Sound design: Janne Laine
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
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M i e h e n
k u v a
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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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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
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Director, cinematography:
Saku Pollari
Script: Saku Pollari,
Ilkka Hynninen
Editing: Kimmo Kohtamäki
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.
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 follows the story of one man’s dream about a church which believes in the tradition
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
entrepreneurs, 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
Sound design: Kyösti Väntänen
Music: Kimmo Pohjonen
Producer: Markku Tuurna
Production company: Filmimaa Oy
Production support:
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
YLE, ARTE, SVT
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Markku Tuurna
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.
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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
]
Silent Longing is a story about two childless couples who use infertility treatments to have bio-
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
logical 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.
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
Sound design: Joonas Jyrälä
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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2009 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 60’
F I N N I S H
[
J o k a i n e n
v o i
o l l a
t ä h t i
15
m i n u u t t i a
]
A documentary on the great cultural turning point that took place in Helsinki in the early 80s.
The film tells how underground culture broke out of clubs, art galleries and small stages into
mainstream awareness. With the help of art and new ways of self-expression and individuality,
representatives of the new generation paved way for the international, open, unique and coolly
stylish atmosphere that Finland is now known for. These people turned their life into individualistic art; some of them by just being, others through art. Their way of life and breaking out from
under the hold of rigid Finnish culture came at a cost, and some of them paid with their lives.
Director, script: Petri Hakkarainen
Cinematography: Arttu Peltomaa
Editing: Kari Elovuori
Sound design, music: Pekka Hakala
Producer: Jouko Aaltonen
Production company: Illume Ltd.
Production support:
ESEK The Finnish Performing
Music Promotion Centre
Financing Tv company: YLE
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1984 Helsinki Underground
Petri Hakkarainen
Petri Hakkarainen, also known under his stage
name Pete Europa (director, screenwriter,
Master of Arts), grew up surrounded by the
Helsinki gang and underground culture. He’s
worked in film and done research in psychology
and different cultures. Besides working on his
latest documentary, he is writing a new version
of Kalevala for TV and preparing a script for an
international feature film.
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Director, script:
K a t s e e n
v a n k i
]
Anneli Sauli is the last living movie star from the golden era of Finnish film. Still today, she is
remembered as the girl from the daring scene in The Milkmaid (Hilja – maitotyttö, 1953); the
reputation has followed her like a shadow throughout her life.
Captive of Gaze is a documentary about Sauli, a Finnish film icon and the transformation of
the myth around her, seen from the perspective of Finnish film and theater. In Anneli Sauli’s roles
and in the photos taken of her, one could see the patriarchal double standards and the hidden
erotic wishes of Finnish men in the 1950s. Her whole life, Anneli has fought against the erotic
myth that surrounded her, trying to gain control of her life.
Through the myth, we see a story of a woman whose fates have travelled through 50 years of
the changing roles of the Finnish woman. With her whole being, Anneli Sauli has represented
great changes in the Finnish culture while also participating in them.
Timo Humaloja
Cinematography:
Harri Paavola, Pekka Uotila
Editing: Petteri Evilampi
Sound design: Heikki Innanen
Producer: Timo Humaloja
Production company:
Kinovid Productions
Production support:
YLE TV1 / YLE Teema
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Timo Humaloja
Timo Humaloja’s career in Finnish TV
and film started over 30 years ago. His
works include feature films, TV drama,
short films and documentary films. He
has also worked as a production consultant at AVEK(The Promotion Centre for
Audiovisual Culture). Since 2006, he has
worked as an independent documentary
film producer.
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F I N N I S H
O n n e l l i s t e n
m a a i l m a n l o p p u
k a u p u n k i
a l k a a
e l i
P i e k s ä m ä e l t ä
]
A film about hope, the illusion of ”the good life” and the reality on the edge of Europe. The
film’s story comes from footage of about twenty very different and somewhat original residents
of Pieksämäki. The narrator of the film, a web camera on the town web site, monitors the events
from the top of the tallest building in town and comments on them in four languages.
Heikki T. Partanen & Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
Directors, script:
Heikki T. Partanen,
Cinematography:
Producer: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
Production company:
Zone2 Pictures Oy
Co-producer: Heikki T. Partanen /
Alppiharjun elokuva Oy
Production support:
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Felicity or The Apocalypse
Begins in Pieksämäki
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Dolby stereo | ~60’
Heikki T. Partanen has worked as a scriptwriter, soundman, editor,
producer and director since 1973. He has directed a number of award-winning documentaries. He received the State Quality Award for his films The
Bench (Penkki, 1998) and Fathers and Sons (Isät ja pojat, 1995). He was a
co-writer/producer in Earth (Maa, 2001), Working Class (Työväenluokka,
2004) and The Shepherds (Paimenet, 2004), a trilogy directed by Veikko
Aaltonen. Currently he is working on Arabian Shores (Arabianranta, 2009).
Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen studied cinematography at the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design in Helsinki. He has worked
as a cinematographer on numerous creative documentary films of which
Shadow of the Holy Book (Pyhän kirjan varjo, 2007) was screened at the
main competition at IDFA in Amsterdam and A Lone Star Hotel (Yhden tähden hotelli, 2007) won the Finnish Jussi award for the best documentary.
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F I N N I S H
Director, script:
Mohamed El Aboudi
Cinematography:
Rostislav Aalto, Aleksander Burov,
Jyri Hakala, Jan Nyman
Editing: Mikko Sippola
Sound design: Anne Tolkkinen
Music: Timo Peltola
Producer: Timo Korhonen
Va s e n
v a r t a l o o n
]
Umar Kemiläinen is a professional boxer; the European Championship is his goal. He converted
to Islam a few years ago, has no Finnish friends except for other converts and is convinced that
the whole society is against him because of his religion.
Suddenly Umar loses everything; he becomes seriously ill and has to cancel his boxing
matches. While in hospital, he loses his apartment. Soon he also divorces. He is at a crossroads:
Should he follow his manager’s advice and continue boxing, or try some other profession? Will he
find a new wife? Will he become politically active? Will he find his place in society or continue to
feel alienated?
Umar has become active in the Islamic Party, the first of its kind in the Western world. The
party programme includes banning the sale of alcohol, promoting male circumcision and making
music lessons in public schools optional.
This is a story of a man who chose a religion that some people associate with terrorism; he
chose Islam because he found inner peace in it. Umar is a man who is determined to adopt a
whole new culture and who no longer feels at home in his society.
Umar travels to Dubai to celebrate the end of Ramadan. There he also tries to find a Muslim
wife and a job. If he succeeds, he might never come back to his native country again.
Production company.
Mohamed El Aboudi
Road Movies Oy
Mohamed El Aboudi was born in Morocco. He completed his B.A. in
Theatre at the University of Fes, Morocco (1991), and an M.A. in Film
and Television at Bond University Australia (1997). His films include
City Folk Helsinki (2007), Inside/Offside (2006), Sound of Sadness (2006),
Forever Stranger (2005), Two Mothers (2005) and Ramadan (2004).
Production support:
AVEK, Church Media Fund
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Fight of Fate
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F I L M S
2010 | 16:9 | Stereo | 60’
Director, script:
Maria Lappalainen
Cinematography:
Jyri Hakala, Marita Hällfors
Editing: Annukka Lilja
Music: Miika Spåre
Producers:
Mika Ritalahti, Niko Ritalahti
Production company:
Silva Mysterium Oy
Production support:
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Gaucho
Finnish company Botnia built a cellulose plant in Fray Bentos, a small town in Uruguay. The plant
is the first of many foreign factory projects planned in the Uruguayan territory, and the investment
is the biggest ever in the whole country. Huge eucalyptus plantations, which produce wood for the
plants, are changing both the landscape and the local people’s traditional source of livelihood
– cattle raising. Rural Uruguay is changing into an industrial producer. Adapting to the new situation is easier for those who are employed. Instead of herding cattle, some of the local cowboys,
gauchos, are occupied with horse polo games that are arranged to entertain Botnia’s engineers.
The Botnia cellulose plant is situated on the bank of the River Uruguay, which marks the border of Uruguay and Argentina. The plant provoked a conflict between two countries: Argentina
accuses Uruguay of contaminating its territory. Local people on the Argentinean side of the river
are organizing huge demonstrations against the Botnia plant. The Finns are seen as invaders, just
like the Spaniards 500 years ago…
Maria Lappalainen
Maria Lappalainen graduated
from the All Russian State Institute
of Cinematography with a Master
of Arts degree in fiction film directing. The documentary On Edge
(Reunalla, 2002) and the short
fiction Milja (2005) toured film
festivals around the world.
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Göringin sauva
]
Göring’s Baton tells the story of Felix Forsman, a young and curious Finnish war cinematographer,
Director, script: Pia Andell
Cinematography:
Felix Forsman, Pekka Uotila
Sound design: Kirsi Korhonen
Music: Pessi Levanto
Producer: Pia Andell
Production company:
Of Course My Films
Production support:
YLE Co-productions
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and his remarkable secret filming assignment in Nazi Germany.
Late in June 1942, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander in Chief of the Finnish Defence
Forces, reluctantly paid a return visit to Germany after Adolf Hitler had visited Finland and congratulated Mannerheim on his 75th birthday.
Felix Forsman was asked to film it all. And so he did. Through his lens, Felix observed Adolf
Hitler, Hermann Göring and the conditions in Berlin, at the UFA studios and Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair
in the summer of 1942.
The news reel compiled from this material was, however, banned shortly after its completion
and remained that way for 65 years. Now is the time to see this exceptional film material shot in
those exceptional times.
Göring’s Baton is a creative historical documentary focusing on the personal experiences of
a young man; it tells what it is like to be in the midst of war, in a historical focal point, in sudden
and unimaginable situations, when failure is not an option.
Pia Andell
Pia Andell, born in 1964, has been making documentary films since
1992. Many of the films of Pia Andell have been shown and given
prizes at many internationally renowned festivals, like the IDFA, Prix
Europa, BANFF and Nordisk Panorama. Her previous films include
international successes like Y in Vyborg (Hetket jotka jäivät , 2006),
and Sibling Relations (Pieni elokuva sisaruussuhteista , 2001).
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F I L M S
2009 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo 1&2 | 52’
[
R i e m u r u h t i n a a t
]
Home-Made Heroes is a documentary film about courage and about finding one’s limits. The
narrators in this funny, yet touching, film are a number of colorful stage artists whose golden era
spanned the 1950s through 1970s, the time period when Finland was going through a powerful
transformation.
These folk artists, who toured with travelling amusement parks, were home-made stars whose
timid “glamour” was loved by the audiences. The arrival of magicians, escape artists, acrobats
and daredevil drivers was an escape from the everyday grind. In the ecstatic atmosphere of their
show, the artists felt their work had a meaning, even though their lifestyle and their daring acts
came at a cost. The film pays tribute to the forgotten folk artists who toured around the country,
entertaining Finns who were building their future during the hard times.
Director, script: Jaakko Kilpiäinen
Cinematography: Arttu Peltomaa
Editing: Matti Näränen
Sound design: Vesa Meriläinen
Music: Janne Haavisto
Producer: Ari Matikainen
Production company:
Kinocompany
Production support:
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Jaakko Kilpiäinen
Jaakko Kilpiäinen (born 1962)
graduated with a Bachelor of Culture and
Arts (photography) from Lahti University
of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design.
He has directed the documentaries
Koivurastin Elsa (2008), Vallattu!
(2007), Ulapalla (2007) and Rai rai
(2005), the short film Russian Cake
(2007) and a number of music videos.
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2009 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 57’19’’
Director, script: Antti Seppänen
Cinematography: based on
8mm shootage by Oiva Kovanen
Photography: Teemu Liakka
Editing: Antti Seppänen,
Samu Heikkilä
Sound design: Kimmo Vänttinen
Music: Antti Kokkola,
Kimmo Mustonen
Producer: Pertti Veijalainen
Production support:
YLE Co-productions
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Iceberg Shadow
[
J ä ä v u o r e n
v a r j o o n
]
The director finds a box of 8-millimetre films full of images from all over the world at a flea
market.
Night after night, the thin strips of plastic lying in the box spring to life. They have been clearly
filmed by the same person. Who would have wanted to record these moments? Calm after a storm,
an oriental dancer, mist in Machu Picchu, a caterpillar eating a leaf and the blaring neon signs
of Manhattan. Mysteriously rippling hustle and bustle in ports that no longer exist. A million exposed squares of film. Someone’s entire life and experiences for sale at a flea market.
The surprising find opens a window to a lost world and takes the viewer on a journey around
the world with a forgotten adventurer, an old sailor – and even further away, as the filmmaker,
searching for the human behind the films, begins to ponder on what is left of us after the results
of decades of dedication end up at a flea market.
Antti Seppänen
In addition to directing, Antti Seppänen, works as an editor and cameraman. He has graduated from the Huston School of Film and Digital Media
in Ireland (M.A. in Film Production and Direction) and the Art and Media
department of the Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Bachelor of
Culture and Arts). He has also studied at the University of Salford in the UK
(Department of Media and Performance). Antti is an experienced cameraman and has participated in the making of documentaries e.g. in China
and Afghanistan. “Documentary films aim to explore and try to explain the
unexplained contained in concrete, seemingly everyday reality. It is typical
for me to find and create meanings by combining existing things.”
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of Vantaa, Finland, for a period of about three years. Children with special needs experience music, dance and visual art and gain a better understanding of themselves. The film follows the
changes that the children go through during this time.
F I N N I S H
Ta i k a v o i m a
Magical Power is a documentary film which follows three different daycare centers in the city
Director, script, cinematography:
Jean Bitar
Editing: Jean Bitar, Joseph Bitar
Sound design: Martti Turunen
Producer: Jean Bitar
Production company:
Bitar Films Oy
Production support:
Church Media Foundation,
The City of Vantaa
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Jean Bitar
Jean Bitar is a producer and film director of Lebanese origin. He is a
naturalized Finn. In 1977 he graduated with a Master of Arts degree
from the All Union State Institute Of Cinematography in Moscow
specializing in feature and TV direction. In 1978 he emigrated to
Finland where he established his base of operation. He has written
and directed TV plays and documentaries for YLE. Since 1984 he
has been operating through his company Bitar Films Oy in Finland.
His most notable works include Breaking Free in Hakunila (Säpinää
Hakunilassa, 2006) and Katri and Kaitsu (Katri ja Kaitsu, 2008).
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2009 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 52’46’’
[
Ko n g o n
A k s e l i
]
A Man from the Congo River sheds light on the little-known story of Nordic machinists working
Director: Jouko Aaltonen
Script: Jouko Aaltonen,
on the river boats on the Congo River. Professionals from Finland and Sweden were hired with
promises of lucrative salaries, and they had to give an oath of fidelity to the King of Belgium. Sailors from the North met a new reality in the heart of the Black Africa where the colonial economy
was based on slavery and forced labor. When reading the sailors’ letters home, we can see how
the men from egalitarian North gradually change and adapt to the racist system. A concrete tool
and a symbol of the regime was a whip made of hippopotamus skin. First terrified by the brutality
of the white oppressors, Nordic sailors soon learned to use the whip themselves. The film adds
an interesting chapter to the history of colonialism in Africa. It is important to tell this unknown
story, as it deals with the universal theme of an individual’s moral choices.
Seppo Sivonen
Cinematography: Timo Peltonen
Editing: Samu Heikkilä
Music: Tapani Rinne
Producer: Pertti Veijalainen
Production support:
AVEK, Ministry for Foreign
Affairs of Finland
YLE, RBTF Télévision Belge
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A Man from the Congo River
Jouko Aaltonen
Director and producer Jouko Aaltonen has
directed numerous documentaries since the early
1990’s with subjects ranging from the Siberian
taiga to the diplomatic circles of New Delhi.
In 2006 he released Revolution (Kenen joukoissa
seisot), a feature-length documentary that
garnered both record-breaking audiences and
the Finnish Jussi award for the best documentary.
In 2007 he achieved his Doctor of Arts degree.
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Sisterhood Across
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Director, script: Imbi Paju
Cinematography: Ants Martin Vahur,
Priit Sooba, Aare Varik,
Liina Toiviainen
Editing: Riitta Poikselkä,
Anders Helle
Sound design: Kirsi Hiltunen
Music: Arvo Pärt, Leo Sumera
Producer: Tiina Butter
Production company: Film Magica Oy
Co-producer: Allfilm / Pille Runk
Production support: AVEK,
Föreningen konstsamfundet,
Swedish Cultural Foundation in
Finland, VIMS, Majaoja Foundation,
Lotta Svärd Foundation, Eesti Kultuurkapital, Finnish Institute in Estonia,
Lohja Children and Youth Foundation,
Estonian Film Foundation
Financing TV company: YLE FST5
S u o m e n l a h d e n
s i s a r e t
]
This historical psychological documentary tells the story of the cooperation and friendship between
members of the Estonian and Finnish voluntary auxiliary organizations for women that began in
the 20’s and was cut off by WWII, the Soviet occupation of Estonia and the subsequent politics of the
Cold War. The reminiscences of Estonian and Finnish women, supplemented by rare archival materials and footage, illustrate the vulnerability of ordinary people and small nations in the power
politics maelstrom of large totalitarian nations. The film sheds light on the rise of totalitarianism in
Europe in the 30’s, peoples’ surrender to mass psychosis and the decline of democracy.
The elderly women in the film have all experienced hard times, but with their warm and kind
nature, they give the viewer hope that good can defeat evil. In the light of their humanity, we can
see the darker side of mankind, which comes to the force through political violence when people
are forced to remain silent and to forget. The past is connected to the present when we see UN
Special Representative Elisabeth Rehn, herself once a Girl Lotta, assisting civilian victims in crisis
areas. The film shows how the patterns of violence tied to war keep repeating themselves.
Imbi Paju
Director, author and journalist Paju has won international attention with
Memories Denied (Torjutut muistot, 2005), her documentary film and book
by the same name. Both the film and the book deal with Soviet slave labor
camps, the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
In 2009, Paju and Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen published a collection of
essays titled ”Fear Was Beyond Everything” (Kaiken takana oli pelko, WSOY),
which further develops the same themes.
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Stereo | 14’
3 Walls
F I N N I S H
Three people face their barriers in a prison that will soon be closed. Time throbs inevitably
forward, and each of them has their own perspective on it. Freedom or the lack thereof presents
itself in a variety of forms.
Director, script,
cinematography, editing:
Antti Lempiäinen
Sound design, music: Petrus Rapo
Producer: Liisa Juntunen
Production company:
napafilms oy
Production support:
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Antti Lempiäinen
Antti got his BA degree in Film and Television
from the Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design in
Finland. Man Seeking Man (Mies etsii miestä,
2004), his graduation film in fiction cinematography, won several awards and was invited to
over 100 international film festivals. Death In a
Modern Day Finland (Kuolema nyky-Suomessa,
2008) was his first short film as a director, and it
was selected to IDFA, among other festivals.
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2009 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 10’49’’
F I N N I S H
[
O s c a r
m e n e e
M e k s i k o o n
]
Oscar-winning filmmaker and seasoned activist Barbara Trent travels in Mexico City with her
Oscar award. Oscar surprises people she meets. Strangers make acquaintance with a real Oscar
and get to know Barbara Trent herself. Oscar gives rise to spontaneous situations. This humoristic short documentary contemplates the mythical attraction of this little gold-plated statuette and
represents Barbara Trent’s strive for a more just and peaceful world.
Director, script: Alvaro Pardo
Cinematography: Alex Albert
Editing: Anne Lakanen
Sound design: Jari Innanen
Music: Felix Arndt, Mariachi Leon
Producer: Alvaro Pardo
Production company: Filmitakomo Oy
Production support:
YLE Co-productions
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And the Oscar Goes to Mexico
Alvaro Pardo
Alvaro Pardo was born in Spain and has made his
professional career as a filmmaker in Finland. He
has directed and produced a number of documentary films, including Stiller, Garbo and I (Stiller,
Garbo ja minä, 1988), Condom (1999) , Kings of
Recycling (Kierrätyksen kuninkaat, 2000) and
Eden Pastora – Commandant Zero (Eden Pastora
– “Komentaja Nolla“, 2006). In all of his films
humour and irony play an important part.
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F I L M S
2010 | 35mm | 1:1,85 |
Dolby digital | 7’
[
Vä l i s s ä
(w o r k i n g
t i t l e)
]
In a vast, lifeless landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl; within the isolated hollows of
urban structures; among the horribly deformed remains of fellow insects; a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched fly is about to die.
Directors, script,
cinematography, editing, animation:
Hannes Vartiainen,
Pekka Veikkolainen
Music: Joonatan Portaankorva
Consulting sound mixer:
Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen
Olli Huhtanen
Hannes Vartiainen (b. 1980) has worked as a freelance director and production manager for Kinotar
Ltd since the early 2000s. Pekka Veikkolainen
(b. 1982) is a graphic design student at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He has worked in
the fields of animation and illustration since 2000.
The two started their own production
company in 2008, and their first film together was
Hanasaari A (2009, documentary, 15 min, 35 mm).
Producers:
Hannes Vartiainen,
Pekka Veikkolainen
Production company:
Pohjankonna Oy
Production support:
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Conserved (working title)
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F I N N I S H
Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen
Script: Jukka Kärkkäinen,
V i e l ä k ö
m u i s t a t t e
L i m p e r i n
H i l m a n
]
Tero, 28, from northern Finland is becoming a father but has not told anybody yet. One Saturday
night in December, his friend Saku comes for a visit, bringing Tero two pairs of baby overalls. For
some reason, the whole village has heard the news. The boys decide to make a toast for fatherhood.
Do You Still Remember Hilja Limperi is a story of male friendship and Finnish stiffness that
opens up often with the help of alcohol. Most importantly, it is a recording of a happy evening
between two good friends living in the cold but warm-hearted North.
Sami Jahnukainen
Cinematography:
Jani Kumpulainen F.S.C.
Editing: Illusia Sarvas,
Jukka Kärkkäinen
Sound design: Tuomas Klaavo
Producer: Sami Jahnukainen
Production company:
Mouka Filmi Oy
Production support:
Finacing TV company:
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Do You Still Remember
Hilma Limperi
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Jukka Kärkkäinen
Jukka Kärkkäinen (born 1972 in Kerava,
Finland) has been making documentary films
since 2003. His work includes such films as
Zetor – Born Free (Zetor – vappaana syntynyt,
2004), The Smoking Room (Tupakkahuone,
2006) and The Living Room of the Nation
(Kansakunnan olohuone, 2009). Jukka is also
one of the co-founders of production company
Mouka Filmi Oy.
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I s m o
K .
–
t e r v e i s i ä
m e n n e i l l e
d a d a i s t e i l l e
]
A documentary film on artist Ismo Kajander and his world. In the documentary, Kajander returns
to his old love, photography, in Paris. He reflects on being an artist, the meaning of flying and the
meaning of life, and being away from the more conservative mainstream art circles.
Kajander is a true avant-gardist. Thus, it isn’t easy to classify him. Kajander has found inspiration in Rauschenberger, Duchamp and Man Ray. “My debt to Marcel Duchamp is unpayable
– M.D. is the limit after which there is no art. M.D. is the mystery of the artifact.”
It has been said museums are not the place for Kajander’s works. His work is criticism against
the concept of art and the institution of art. “Instead of being a separate phenomenon, everything
that is called art should aim at being a natural part of life.”
Kajander is now a retired artist and spends as much time as possible in Paris, which has been
his dream ever since he was young. In the film, we follow Kajander planning his grave monument
that is to be put on his grave in a Parisian cemetery one day.
Director, script,
cinematography: KJ. Koski
Editing: Anssi Blomsted
Music: Mauri Sumén
Producer: KJ. Koski
Production company: Long Shot Oy
Production support: AVEK
KJ. Koski
KJ. Koski is a screenwriter, director, cinematographer and producer.
He has been a professional since 1968 and has worked as a sound
designer in national hit films. He has written and directed both fiction
and documentary films since 1985. His works include over twenty feature
films and dozens of short and TV films. Koski’s latest works as a director
include It’s Lonely at the Top (Yksinäinen mies, 2008), Dream of Karelia
(Unelmana Karjala, 2007), On the Footsteps of Caj Bremer (Suomalaista
arkipäivää 2004) and The Red Hanko (Krasnij Gangut, 2003).
Photo: Ismo Kajander
F I N N I S H
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Ismo K. –
Regards to Foregone Dadaists
[
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Stereo | 28’
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2009 | HD, Digibeta | 16:9 |
Dolby | 29’
Director, script: Jouni Hokkanen
Cinematography: Jussi Arhinmäki
Editing: Kim Finn
Sound design: Pekka Lipponen
Music: Simon Bartholomew
Producer: John Hakalax
Production company:
Hakalax Productions Oy
Co-producer: Soma Projects
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Kinbaku
[
K i n b a k u
–
S i e l u n
s o l m u j a
]
Kinbaku, “tight binding”, is a Japanese style of bondage which involves tying up the bottom using
simple, yet visually intricate, patterns and several pieces of rope, usually made of hemp or jute. In
Shinto religion, in order to make something sacred, a man ties a rope around it. This sacred quality
of tying can also be applied to Kinbaku, which is an erotic, spiritual and artistic connection between
the people who do it. It started with the samurais capturing enemies on the battlefield 500 years
ago. “Rope is an extension of one’s arms and a communication tool. Two people can really be close
and have emotional exhange,” says rope master Osada Steve from Tokyo. Osada Steve is a student
of Haruki Yukimura, a rope master who has tied over 3000 people in his life. “If you look at the
Japanese samurai armor, it’s tied on. If you’ve ever received a Japanese gift, it’s an exquisite thing,”
says Asagi Ageha, the most popular star of the new generation. Japan places a ritualistic weightness
on everyday acts and talent our own culture lacks – and turns almost anything, including knots and
ropes, into art. Nowadays rope is used to create an artistic, meaningful scene between two people.
Kinbaku is about creating a beautiful climate and an exciting dramatic experience.
Jouni Hokkanen
Director Jouni Hokkanen has made several documentaries, many of
them on Asian topics. His film Pyongyang Robogirl (2000) was invited
to Berlinale and travelled more than 180 international film festivals
and venues, including MOMA in New York. One of Hokkanen’s latest
documentaries, The Dictator’s Cut , dealt with cinema in Northern
Korea. His documentaries Tehran Taxi (2004), Hong Kong Sars Blues
(2003) and Children’s Palace (2002) were all made for international
audiences and have been shown on dozens of festivals worldwide.
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F I L M S
Stereo | 12’
[
P ä i v ä n s a n k a r i
]
Mimmi is a six-year-old preschooler who has tons of hobbies and a vivid imagination. Despite
being lively and cheerful, Mimmi has had trouble making friends with children her age and is
afraid of being bullied. Mimmi is about to turn seven and decides to invite friends to her birthday
party for the first time. Will the party help Mimmi conquer her fear?
Director, script: Marika Väisänen
Cinematography: Sari Aaltonen
Music: Panu Aaltio
Producer: Liisa Juntunen
Production company:
Kinocompany Oy
Production support:
Church Media Foundation
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Monster Birthday
Marika Väisänen
Marika Väisänen graduated from the Kemi-Tornio
University of Applied Sciences in 2004. Her graduating
film was All Woman (Koko nainen, 2004), a documentary
film about cartoon artist Kaisa Leka. Her first professional
work as a director was Home Away from Home (Sylistä
syliin, 2008), a children’s documentary that won several
awards at film festivals around the world. Besides working
as a film director, Marika also freelances as a TV director
and journalist.
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2009 | Digibeta | 16:9 |
Stereo | 25’
To i n e n
o v i
]
grapher, and Liisa Rautiainen, 88, a painter. To be near his friend, Trefz, a former advertising
photographer and world citizen, moved to Keminmaa, a small, quiet municipality in southwestern Lapland, and set up Mikä Maku, an art and craft gallery. Trefz wants to make Liisa’s old age
as pleasant as possible and be there when she passes away.
F I N N I S H
[
Reborn is a film poem that tells about the close friendship between Detlef Trefz, 57, a photo-
Director, script, editing:
Tita Jänkälä
Tita Jänkälä
Tita Jänkälä is a documentary film director,
scriptwriter and editor. Her film Imagine the
Work (Kuvittele teos, 2000) won the prize for
the best portrait at the Montreal International
Festival Films on Art in 2001.
Cinematography:
Raimo Uunila
Otso Pakarinen
Producer: Jouko Aaltonen
Financing Tv company: YLE
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Reborn
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Director, script, editing:
Juho Gartz
Cinematography:
Jan-Eric Nyström
[
R u d o l f
K o i v u
–
s a t u a
k o k o
e l ä m ä?
]
Rudolf Koivu (1890–1946) is a Finnish illustrator whose work offers us a look into the Finnish
soul. Winter in the pictures is white and silent, and it sighs softly. When the sun is low, and the
temperatures are falling, we might see a bright reddish gleam in the sky. A summery forest is full
of light and feels welcoming with its animals, trolls and gnomes; at times, it’s a scary place and
home to mean witches and goblins. Giants also live in the forest. Dressed in flowing capes, the
heroes in the fairy tales come from the East and other exotic regions; an aura of mystery surrounds them. The underwater world of coral seas is abundant in colour, wonderful blossoms and
fishes. Rudolf Koivu, a modest, quiet and introverted master with the paintbrush, created his own
unique fairy tale world. He is a classic and a creator of the rich tradition of Finnish children’s book
illustration. Sometimes his life resembled a fairy tale; for the most part, it was nothing like it.
Sound design:
Animation:
Juho Gartz
Laura Palosaari,
Jan-Eric Nyström
Producer: Juho Gartz
Juho Gartz is an editor, screenwriter and director. He has edited
several documentary and short films as well as over thirty
feature films, such as Skin, Skin (Käpy selän alla, 1966) and
Here, Beneath the North Star (Täällä Pohjantähden alla, 1968).
His own films as a director focus mainly on film and other visual
art forms. Of his latest work, the most significant one might be
Eadweard Muybridge (2007), a documentary on a photographer
who became one of the pioneers of the moving pictures. Gartz
has also written a number of articles and four books on films.
Muutama Metri Ky
Production support:
AVEK
Photo: Amerin Kulttuurisäätiö
Antero Honkanen,
Pekka Karjalainen
Production company:
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Mono | 28’
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[
R u u h k a
]
Some people are stuck in traffic for a living. The documentary Traffic Jam is a peek into what
goes on in the minds of two package deliverers who sit in their cars all day long. They speak
about their hopes and dreams, their frustrations and fears. In traffic you sit around waiting for
the lights to change from red to green. In life, you have to know when, what and how to change.
Directors, script:
Arthur Franck, Oskar Forstén
Cinematography:
Mikael Gustafsson, Oskar Forstén
Editing: Arthur Franck
Axel Högström
Producer: Oskar Forstén
Production company: 4KRS Films
Production support: AVEK, Swedish
Cultural Foundation in Finland
YLE TV1 / Uusi Kino
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Traffic Jam
Arthur Franck & Oskar Forstén
Arthur Franck (born 1980) and Oskar Forstén
(born 1981) became film collaborators in 2006
when they founded their production company 4KRS
Films. The duo is just as obsessed with the visual
style of their films as they are with their spectacles.
Together they have produced four short documentaries: Traffic Jam (Ruuhka, 2009), The Penalty
Box (Kiinnipitäminen, 2007), On God’s Frequency
(2007) and Phutura (2006).
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F I N N I S H
P a l a n e n
t a i v a s t a
]
Under Our Sky is a documentary about the life of Thai berry pickers in the forests of northern
Sound design:
Finland where they travel every year for three months from their rural villages in Isan, northeast
Thailand.
Beautifully filmed over three years, Under Our Sky follows a small group of pickers in rural
Thailand and Finland between 2007 and 2009. Through the thoughts and experiences of Boonlai
Thongdeenork, his wife Saitong and young nephew Jirawat, we gain a special insight into the
pickers’ lives, while they try to earn a living in the harsh conditions of Finland.
Unlike some Finnish newsflashes about the berry trade and the unfair conditions of foreign
berry pickers, Under Our Sky focuses on giving a voice to the pickers, letting them tell us how
they view their struggles and existence within two very different cultures, thousands of miles
away from their families. For people eager to judge a foreign manual worker, this documentary
hopes to raise questions about the validity of their judgments and in turn offer another kind of
viewpoint to the life of a Thai picker in Finland; one that is richer and more intriguing than what
one initially would assume.
Heidi Vilkman, Zhe Wu
Producer: Jyrki Kaipainen
Heidi Vilkman
Director, editing: Heidi Vilkman
Cinematography: Mikael Kanerva
(HDV), Heidi Vilkman (super8),
Anu Keränen (DVCAM)
Music: Birger Clausen
Associate producer:
Heidi Vilkman
Production company:
Camera Cagliostro
YLE TV1 Co-productions
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Heidi Vilkman is a Finnish artist and director, who is currently based
in London, UK. She has made several short fiction and documentary
films, of which many have screened at festivals around the world.
Her experimental documentary, Dreaming Sideways (2005), won
the Technical and Artistic Achievement Award at the International
Disability Film Festival in Athens in 2007 and was also nominated
for two other awards in the UK and the US.
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Contacts
F I N N I S H
4KRS Films
Vilhovuorenkatu 11 B 10
FI-00500 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 756 3208
[email protected]
www.4krs.com
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Festival contacts
for all titles:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3050
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
Aito Media
Hämeentie 157, 4. krs.
FI-00560 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 380 4160 (office) /
+358 50 5444 722 (Ilkka Hynninen)
ilkka.hynninen@aitomedia.fi
www.aitomedia.fi
Viipurinkatu 16 B 22
FI-00510 Helsinki
Mob. +358 50 563 4085
Fax +358 9 148 1636
alppiharjunelokuva@jippii.fi
www.alppiharjunelokuva.com
Art Films production AFP Oy
Merimiehenkatu 10
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 4159 3640
Fax +358 9 4159 3690
info@artfilms.inet.fi
www.artfilmsproduction.com
Bitar Films Oy
Hakunilantie 84
FI-01260 Vantaa
Fax +358 9 8766 068
bitar@saunalahti.fi
Blue Media Oy
Ilmalantori 2 C
FI-00240 Helsinki
Tel. +358 10 300 7070
Fax +358 10 300 6250
aarni.kuorikoski@bluemedia.fi
Camera Cagliostro
Vellamonkatu 1
FI-33100 Tampere
Tel. +358 41 434 4399
Film Magica Oy
Kalevankatu 30
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel. +358 20 791 2800
www.filmmagica.fi
Filmimaa Oy
Siamintie 14
FI-00560 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 5666 596
markku.tuurna@sci.fi
www.filmimaa.fi
Filmitakomo Oy
Merimiehenkatu 10
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel + 358 9 4159 3620
Fax + 358 9 4159 3690
fi[email protected]
First Floor Productions
Fredrikinkatu 61 A 6
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel + 358 50 3822 024
pauli@firstfloor.fi
For Real Productions Oy
Työpajankatu 10 A
FI-00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 774 0040
info@forrealproductions.fi
Guerilla Films Ltd
Kiuastie 7 B
FI-02770 Espoo
Tel. +358 9 881 3224
Mobile +358 40 506 2675 /
+358 44 381 3224
info@guerillafilms.fi
www.guerillafilms.fi
Hakalax Productions Oy
Topeliuksenkatu 3b A 9 A
FI-00260 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 8521 448 (edit studio)
Mob. +358 400 423 364
Illume Ltd.
Palkkatilankatu 7 B
FI-00240 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 148 1489
Fax +358 9 148 1489
illume@illume.fi
www.illume.fi
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F I N N I S H
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Festival contacts
for all titles:
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 6220 300
Fax +358 9 6220 3050
ses@ses.fi
www.ses.fi
Kinocompany Oy
Rantakatu 9
FI-80100 Joensuu
Tel. +358 50 551 2235 /
+358 41 536 7636
info@kinocompany.fi
www.kinocompany.fi
Klaffi Productions
Nahkatehtaankatu 2
FI-90100 Oulu
Tel. +358 8 8811 623
Fax +358 8 8811 624
klaffi@klaffi.com
www.klaffi.com
Kinotar Oy
Työpajankatu 10 A
FI-00580 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 7740 040
Fax +358 9 7740 0444
[email protected]
www.kinotar.com
Long Shot Oy
Karpalonvarsi 7
FI-01150 Söderkulla
[email protected].fi
Kinovid Productions
Pursimiehenkatu 23 A 19
FI-00150 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 580 6626
timo.humaloja@elisanet.fi
Making Movies Oy
Linnankatu 7
FI-00160 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 682 9540
Fax +358 9 6842 7870
mamo@mamo.fi
Marianna Films Oy
Punavuorenkatu 5 A 2
FI-00120 Helsinki
Tel. +358 9 622 1614
Fax +358 9 622 1614
marianna.fi[email protected]
Mediatehdas Dakar Oy
Pajatie 59
FI-48600 Kotka
Tel. +358 10 234 6640
info@dakar.fi
www.dakar.fi
Millennium Film
Koskikartanontie 12
FI-75530 Nurmes
Tel. +358 13 5110 100
Fax +358 13 5110 111
millennium@millennium.fi
www.millennium.fi
Mouka Filmi Oy
Vilhovuorenkatu 11 B 7
FI-00500 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 731 4354
Fax +358 9 488 692
sami@mouka.fi
www.mouka.fi
Muutama Metri Ky
Pudasrinne 4 H 102
FI-01600 Vantaa
Tel. + 358 9 532 744
napafilms oy
Vilhonvuorenkuja 20 D 106
FI-00500 Helsinki
Tel. +358 41 536 7636
napafi[email protected]
Road Movies Oy
Poutamäentie 14 F 63
FI-00360 Helsinki
Tel. +358 400 365 770
timo.korhonen@roadmovies.fi
Of Course My Films
Nordenskiöldinkatu 3b A 11
FI-00250 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 5441 213
Fax +358 9 2417 233
ofcoursemyfi[email protected]
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
Oktober Oy
Uutiskatu 3
FI-00240 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 709 3331
joonas@oktober.fi
www.oktober.fi
Pohjankonna Oy
Nilsiänkatu 10–14 B
FI-00510 Helsinki
Tel. +358 50 320 9050
hannes@pohjankonna.fi
www.pohjankonna.fi
Vaski Filmi Oy
Liikasentie 35
FI-90540 Oulu
Tel. +358 40 543 2264
janne.niskala@vaskifilmi.fi
www.vaskifilmi.fi
Zone2 Pictures Oy
Pengerkatu 1 B 42
FI-00530 Helsinki
Tel. +358 40 576 9073
[email protected]
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Inside cover, front:
In the Steam of Life by Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen (photo: Hannes Vartiainen)
Back cover:
Monster Birthday by Marika Väisänen, Auf Wiedersehen Finnland by Virpi Suutari (photo: Virpi Suutari),
Reborn by Tita Jänkälä, Rudolf Koivu by Juho Gartz (photo: Amerin Kulttuurisäätiö), Do You Still Remember Hilma Limperi by Jukka Kärkkäinen,
Home-Made Heroes by Jaakko Kilpiäinen, Sisterhood Across the Gulf of Finland by Imbi Paju, A Man from the Congo River by Jouko Aaltonen
F I N N I S H
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Kinbaku by Jouni Hokkanen
The Finnish Film Foundation | Kanavakatu 12 | FI-00160 Helsinki | Tel. +358 9 6220 300 | Fax +358 9 6220 3050 | [email protected] | www.ses.fi
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Editor: Satu Elo | Translations / editing: Aretta Vähälä | Layout: Maikki Rantala, Praxis Oy | Printed by: Erikoispaino Oy, Helsinki, 2009 | ISSN 1795-9977
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Inside cover, back:
In the Shadow of a Doubt by Pekka Lehto
Front cover:
Freetime Machos by Mika Ronkainen (photo: Pekka Fali)
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