Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre 2018

5.20

One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks.

2018

The Code

The Code 2001

7.40

The Code is a Finnish-made documentary about Linux, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement.

2001

Writing with Fire

Writing with Fire 2021

7.33

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.

2021

Aalto

Aalto 2020

6.11

Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design, Aino and Alvar Aalto gave their signature to iconic Scandic design. The first cinematic portrait of their life love story is an enchanting journey of their creations and influence around the world.

2020

Kill Anneli

Kill Anneli 2020

4.50

Black drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life.

2020

Helping Mihaela

Helping Mihaela 2011

6.00

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.

2011

Punainen huone

Punainen huone 1991

4.00

Young cleaning woman Kukka-Maaria comes to town and gets an awesome rental apartment. In exchange of that, however, her landlord gradually subjects her to be his and his friends' sexual partner.

1991

Sexy as Hell

Sexy as Hell 2016

2.00

When an accounting company moves, it’s CEO gets an opportunity to display her awesome management skills.

2016

To Teach a Bird to Fly

To Teach a Bird to Fly 2020

1

This experimental nature documentary by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts depicts climate change and the wave of extinction from the point of view of our near future. Actually, it depicts the age we live in now, or rather its fateful consequences.

2020

Vika!

Vika! 2023

10.00

Vika, who is 84, is one of the eldest DJs in the world. Because of her attitude, she is far from any stereotypes about senior citizens. Bittersweet documentary musical about consistence in following your own path and fighting for your dreams.

2023

Jalil

Jalil 2009

6.00

Jalil is 17-year-old boy living with his Iranian family in a suburb near Helsinki. Though he has lived in Finland all his life, it seems hard for him to find acceptance among the "native" Finns. At home he faces the opposite problem. His parents demand him to respect Iranian cultural traditions. Jalil is about one day in the life of a boy standing on the edge of two cultures. On this summer day big things are bound to culminate; religion, identity, love.

2009

Pony Girls

Pony Girls 2008

1

About girls who ride with horses and grow bigger. The film follows three years of age 9 to 19 year old girls who perform ponies and horses at the Poni-Haha Riding School in Hakunila, Vantaa. At the beginning of the story, 12-year-old Laura and his friend Nekku and Heli are in the middle.

2008

A Seal Story

A Seal Story 2019

1

Filmed in a barren fishing community off the Icelandic coast and a trendy hotel in Helsinki, A Seal Story is a queer take on a contemporary love triangle. It takes its inspiration from the legend, where seals were believed to be former human beings who voluntarily sought death in the ocean. Once a year, they were allowed to come on land, strip off their skins and amuse themselves as human beings.

2019

Prince of Paris

Prince of Paris 2019

1

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through numerous phone calls. Princesse goes to school while her father is trying to make it in Paris cleaning streets and selling souvenirs that enable him to send nice clothes to his daughter – and a smartphone that she’s been begging for.

2019

Mothers of Life

Mothers of Life 2002

1

A documentary on the experiences of the Nubetya Yaptiks nomadic family in the Yamal Peninsula, Eastern Siberia, from 1992 to 2001.

2002

Kaisa's Enchanted Forest

Kaisa's Enchanted Forest 2016

7.50

Examines the extraordinary lifelong friendship between Skolt Sámi storyteller Kaisa Gauriloff and the Swiss-Russian author Robert Crottet through the eyes of Gauriloff’s great-granddaughter Katja.

2016

Glass Ceiling

Glass Ceiling 2015

2.00

Sari works in middle management for a multinational company, and a promotion is within her grasp. She just has to finish her last presentation, break the glass ceiling and make it to the conference room in time.

2015

Vacuum-Cleaner Salesmen

Vacuum-Cleaner Salesmen 1997

7.80

Three vacuum cleaner salesmen go door-to-door selling dreams of dust-free homes and personal ambitions in a bleak Finland hit by the worst recession in history.

1997