Games People Play

Games People Play 2020

5.40

Group of old friends gather in a summer villa to celebrate a surprise birthday party for Mitzi, who is the dramatic focal point of the group. The weekend starts ominously when Mitzi does not respond well to the surprise party. It turns out that Mitzi has just filed for divorce and has been looking forward to a peaceful weekend. The tense situation takes a new turn when Mitzi's best friend brings her new boyfriend for a visit, who happens to be a Swedish film star. Familiar surroundings and the old rituals get to the core of the group and make them forget their adulthood. Revelations, not meant to harm the balance, make them reassess their past as well as their present.

2020

Four Little Adults

Four Little Adults 2023

7.10

The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she cannot leave him and she understands that sometimes it is possible to sacrifice a part of one's individual happiness for the good of the people you love. For this reason she suggests to Matias that they open their relationship, a choice that will lead her to meet Miska, a young non-binary, who is also her girlfriend, and to experiment with polyamory naturally and spontaneously, with all the consequences of the case, positive and negative.

2023

Stupid Young Heart

Stupid Young Heart 2018

5.72

When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.

2018

Sihja - The Rebel Fairy

Sihja - The Rebel Fairy 2021

5.70

Sihja is a young, charming and a little outrageous fairy who leaves her home in the forest. On arrival in the city, she meets a sensitive new friend, a lonely human boy Alfred. Sihja loves the newly found organized urban shapes and orderly habits that the city people have. One day dead birds appear on the city streets. Alfred and Sihja must find out what is threatening the nature.

2021

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? 2012

6.10

A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.

2012

Paradise Is Burning

Paradise Is Burning 2023

5.20

In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But when social services call a meeting, Laura has to find someone to impersonate their mom, or the girls will be taken into foster care and separated. Laura keeps the threat a secret, so as not to worry her younger sisters. But as the moment of truth draws closer, new tensions arise, forcing the three sisters to negotiate the fine line between the euphoria of total freedom and the harsh realities of growing up.

2023

Song

Song 2014

1

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

2014

Maya Nilo (Laura)

Maya Nilo (Laura) 2022

5.70

Nilo is a feminist writer, living an orderly life with her husband and 13-year-old daughter Laura. When her irresponsible sister Maya, whose projects constantly tend to bomb, both "kidnaps" Nilo's Volvo and daughter and heads south, Nilo tags along. The goal of the trip is Portugal, where the sisters’ complicated mother recently diagnosed with cancer lives, together with Maya’s son, who it has finally become time to take responsibility for.

2022

Play Rape

Play Rape 2019

8.00

A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene.

2019

Hobbyhorse Revolution

Hobbyhorse Revolution 2017

6.50

A film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.

2017

Let Her Speak

Let Her Speak 2019

6.00

A merited female scientist is at an international conference and realises that a male moderator is explaining her own theory back at her, until a remark from the audience wakes both speakers and listeners.

2019

Conductivity

Conductivity 2020

7.50

Conductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training. The film gives a unique viewpoint to follow the students, as this is the first film about conductor training at the Sibelius Academy.

2020

Festive Spirit

Festive Spirit 2019

8.00

The festive spirit of an office party is ruined, when a woman accidentally reveals that their colleague had harassed her at the previous office party.

2019

Fat

Fat 2019

5.00

Sonja is tired of her body being a problem for others.

2019

Hello World

Hello World 2021

4.70

The film follows the lives of four queer youths who are the first ones in their social circles to come out as openly gay before their 16th birthday.

2021

Korso

Korso 2014

5.20

Stuck in the suburbs of Helsinki, 20-year-old Markus plans on moving to New York, his sights set on pursuing streetball fame. With little money behind him, he turns to the local loan shark - and when he discovers that Markus has no plans to repay him, things take a turn for the worse.

2014

Girl Thing

Girl Thing 2019

6.00

Teenage girls take their shirts off at a party together but they attract an audience.

2019

The Committee

The Committee 2016

6.20

Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise… The delegates are faced with the challenge of making a democratic decision: is there something they can agree on to represent a true Nordic movement?

2016

My Reality

My Reality 2024

1

Mira, Eevis and Meiju are reality TV stars, searching for acceptance, but become persecuted by the general public for their behaviour instead. Resurfacing is hard in the society, that aims to categorize us as either winners or losers.

2024