Kari Väänänen

The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren’t ...

Grump’s life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening. But Grump crashes his beloved ...

A sort of “Divorce Finnish Style,” Mika Kaurismäki’s rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of ...

Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died ...

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. ...

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to ...

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, ...

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor ...

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two ...

One man’s quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

A short directed by Mika Kaurismäki.

Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive ...

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level ...

Live action comedy about a fictional town and it’s uncommon people, based on a comic strip ‘Fingerpori’, by Pertti Jarla.

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately ...

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.

After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager ...

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold ...

It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for ...

Häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they ...

Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy ...