Living in the Herttoniemi suburb in Eastern Helsinki, 12 year olds Antti and Muhis have been best friends since kindergarten. Muhis is from a Somali background, and the boys’ friendship is put to test when a local racist lays his hands on Muhis. A struggle ensues, and Antti accidentally shoves the man off of a cliff, into the sea. The boys swear never ever to tell anyone and to take their secret to their graves. Changes is a life-affirming film about friendship, growing up, tolerance and courage.
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his...
Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift ...
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously rec...
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tov...
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in tu...
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as h...
Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affa...
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood'...
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of findin...
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his be...
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares...
A modern adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in contemporary Helsinki. Raskolnikov...
Other Girls tells the story of four young girls nearing graduation, all of them struggling with vari...
Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Sii...
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-...
A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri A...
A woman takes time in private on a tiny island in Helsinki to contemplate a loss that has caused sud...
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However,...