Hannu Lauri

The Other Side of Hope

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

Pirunnyrkki

Crime and Punishment

Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder...

The Year of the Hare

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend...

Dirty Hands

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassi...

Calamari Union

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neigh...

Farewell, Mr. President

Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland,...

Friends, Comrades

The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging...

Paper Star

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was...

Ihmemies

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the...

Cha Cha Cha

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him tha...

The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and t...

Pedon merkki

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

Marja pieni!

A story about Marja Maronen, a 30-year-old office worker who is self-centered and pursues love and wealth. Afte...

Ansa

Daniel Gorban's wife Elisabet has left home after an argument and has been missing for ten days. Daniel is worr...

Hei kliffaa hei

The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.

Meiltähän tämä käy

Logger Severi Suhonen is transferred from forestry work to indoor work at the company's paper mill. Unable to a...