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see all genres ›Finland's rich cinematic history dates back almost to the medium's earliest years, but it is only in recent decades that its expanding industry found much international attention, with several notable filmmakers following in the footsteps of brothers Aki and Mika Kaurismaki.
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Concrete Night
A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable fourteen-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards® for Best...Watch Movie
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Autobonus
An American dream in Finland is a brand new car and a monthly income of 150,000 Euros. The worst recession period of Finnish history is over but unemployment is decreasing slowly. The spectacular financial growth gained by the Finnish Nokia hasn't reached everyone. Viljo and Kaisu Mikkonen along...Watch Movie
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Our Summer
A documentary film by Mika Ronkainen about the phases of a family and the cycle of generations. A story about a middle-aged woman who decides to change the direction of development (even just for one summer). Anitta Kolehmainen, a mother of five children, lives in a small village of Karunki close...Watch Movie
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Reindeerspotting
This documentary tells the story of Jani, a nineteen year old drug addict living on social welfare along with his friends. Tired of his life in a remote city in Finland, he decides to travel by train to various parts of Europe before being sent to prison for several petty crimes.Watch Movie
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Let My People Go!
A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch's LET MY PEOPLE GO! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Ruben, a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in...Watch Movie
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Screaming Men
The Finnish Screaming Male Choir, Mieskuoro Huutajat, dressed in black suits, white shirts and rubber ties is a unique choir which performs its repertoire by shouting and screaming. Led by the conductor Petri Sirviö, the choir has travelled during fifteen years of existence from an idea in a bar...Watch Movie
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The River
Critically acclaimed THE RIVER flows between a dozen diverse, well-etched characters in a small Finnish town, including a clandestine gay couple, a factory worker and his adulturious wife and a suicidal young mother. It is a rich and insightful look at ordinary lives unfolding over the short time...Watch Movie
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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
This award-winning, stunningly beautiful documentary reveals how the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in Chechnya. Divided into three episodes or 'rooms,' the film is characterized by an elegantly paced observational style, which uses little...Watch Movie
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Disco and the Atomic War
Against an inventive canvas of archival footage, cleverly staged scenes and interviews with former Cold Warriors who still speak in the dated jargon of the era, Estonian compatriots reminisce about growing up during the duck-and-cover days behind the Iron Curtain. As it turns...Watch Movie
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Blood Riders
BLOOD RIDERS is a blood-soaked adventure comedy about four young friends who stumble upon a body after stealing a car. That discovery leads to a road trip around town during which they try get rid of the increasing amount of corpses. Along their wild ride the kids encounter neo-Nazis, punk...Watch Movie
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Before the Flood
Veikko and Impi Schroderus built a house in Pelkosenniemi, Finnish Lapland in the beginning of 1950's. At the time, a state-owned hydroelectric company, Kemijoki Oy, started harnessing the rivers of Lapland. When the company presented its plan to build the Vuotos reservoir,...Watch Movie
