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- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsTopi MajaniemiMarjaana MaijalaMaria LundqvistDuring 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.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsKaarina HazardHeikki NousiainenJukka KeinonenWith few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsMinna HaapkyläPetteri SummanenLaura MalmivaaraFC Venus is a romantic comedy about men, women and soccer.
- DirectorLauri NurkseStarsSaija LentonenKari-Pekka ToivonenKristiina ElsteläEmma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsSamuli VauramoPihla ViitalaEero AhoThere is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsPeter FranzénTaisto ReimaluotoAhti KuoppalaBright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaA rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsNiilo SyväojaTommi KorpelaKristiina HalttuA boy is sent to Saari, an isolated island and home to a home for troubled boys, where he falls in love with the daughter of the school's superintendent.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsPeter FranzénNiko SaarelaLauri NurkseFour well-mannered but poorly grown brothers drift into a life of crime when their schizophrenic father is sent to the mental hospital.
- DirectorPerttu LeppäStarsMikko LeppilampiLaura BirnAmanda PilkeWhen their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren't so hopelessly shy...
- DirectorMatti GrönbergStarsHeikki HelaHeikki SilvennoinenTimo KahilainenAn escaped mental patient, two losers and a gay nurse go onto a roadtrip in order to find a secret gold treasure.
- DirectorKaisa RastimoStarsKatriina TaviTilda KiianlehtoMinna SuuronenThe quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.
- DirectorJuha WuolijokiStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanOtto GustavssonJonas RinneThe touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
- DirectorJukka-Pekka SiiliStarsLauri TilkanenMikko LeppilampiPamela TolaOn the West Coast on Finland in nineteenth-century Ostrobothnia. Esko is the leader of a local gang of troublemakers and an uneven battle ensues over the estate, honor a father's last wishes.
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsJasper PääkkönenElina HietalaJuha VeijonenA ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPamela TolaSamuli VauramoJoonas SaartamoA woman dulled with praise, Nelli is well on her way to Med-School thanks to her parents, but dreams of a career as a singer.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
- DirectorVille JankeriStarsJussi NikkiläYlermi RajamaaEero MilonoffThree outcast young men get increasingly drunk when they wander around on a hot summer day trying to find something to do.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsIlmari JärvenpääOnni TommilaLauri TilkanenIn 1972, Rupert, 8 and Evert, 6 are two lovable and wildly imaginative brothers, lost in their cowboys-and-Indians fantasies and in the playground romances with the neighborhood girls. In the background is the warm but explosive and unstable mother, and the charming but unreliable father. The family has moved to a new house, the future looks bright. Everything starts to fall apart when Rupert finds a hidden letter. There are terrible fights and hushed whispers, then mom is taken somewhere to rest for a while. Later on there is confusing talk about a new mom. The brothers make a blood oath: One can't lie or die or one has to pay the other a million or more for the rest of his life. Rupert tries to hold the family together. But finally things get too complicated, and real tragedy waits in the wings of the fantasy plays. In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present. If he doesn't find absolution, the family tragedy will be repeated and the curse will live on. Dad is coming home and the blood oath is about to be broken.
- DirectorJohanna VuoksenmaaStarsArmi ToivanenEssi HellénAku HirviniemiIf there are 21 ways to ruin a marriage, there must be 21 ways to fall in love.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsPamela TolaJussi VatanenJasper PääkkönenJanne has made a career out of living on welfare; suddenly, his girlfriend gives him an ultimatum: Buy a new digital TV box or she will leave him.