Kotimainen esityssarja

A group of men are cleaning bones in water buckets. A mother with no legs prays in the church by day, at home with her children in the evening, and by herself at night, surrounded by darkness. Other villagers gather in candlelight to reminisce about their loved ones. Some cry, most do not.

Finnsurf is the first Finnish surf-film. A wild guess is that it’s also the world’s only surf-film in which someone surfs with an icicle attached to their forehead. When a proper storm wind blows a true surfer runs through a snowy forest and jumps into the freezing Baltic...

It’s the year 1943: In a crazed attempt to hide their crimes, SS commanders of Treblinka concentration camp in Poland order burnings of their victims. In another place at the same era: Facing defeat, authorities command archive material to be destroyed.

A few surviving films and...

Images often seen in the news: dusty streets of Mogadishu, buildings ravaged by war, heavily armed men. And Abdullahi Farah, a serious man who fled the Somali Civil War to Finland years ago. Farah has one goal – to end the war. Can a shopkeeper and father of seven from...

Mika Koskinen was planning a film about China being the growing giant of green energy. His plans changed when he encountered Stora Enso in southern China. The company is destroying the diverse nature and polluting the groundwater with its eucalyptus plantations.

The...