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Selma Vilhunen

Selma Vilhunen

Directing

Biography

Selma Vilhunen (born October 1976 in Turku) is a Finnish filmmaker. Vilhunen and fellow producer Kirsikka Saari received an Academy Awards nomination in the category of Best Live Action Short Film for the 2013 film Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?.

Known For

Black Ice
5.2

Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover.

Black Ice

2007
Kaunis rietas onnellinen
7.0

Kaija Koo is one of the most popular artists in Finnish pop music and power ballads. The biopic follows Kaija Koo's journey through music and life as she navigates through her challenges and finds true freedom in her personal and professional life. From an insecure young woman, she grows into an independent and strong woman whose personal growth story, and especially the songs that emerge from it, will empower many generations.

Kaunis rietas onnellinen

2026
Homesick
4.5

17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. While Sami's and his roommate's Rude's eccentric friendships gradually increases, the truth of past events begin to unravel.

Homesick

2005
Stupid Young Heart
5.6

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.

Stupid Young Heart

2018
Four Little Adults
5.9

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.

Four Little Adults

2023
Korso
5.0

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.

Korso

2014
Little Wing
6.7

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and mother's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.

Little Wing

2016
Force of Habit
5.7

Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?

Force of Habit

2019
Song
N/A

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

Song

2014
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4.5

Nordic Factory is a Residency, Workshop and Short Film Concept that stimulates cultural and cinematic meetings between young film directors, while giving them an international platform to present their first or second feature projects. This concept continues and builds on an initial, successful collaboration in 2013 between Directors’ Fortnight and the Taipei Film Commission, and will continue in 2015 with a new partner country.

Nordic Factory

2014
The Dinosaur
5.8

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.

The Dinosaur

2021
Suburban Virgin
5.6

Two teenage girls, one of them desperate to lose her virginity, take a hitchhiking road trip.

Suburban Virgin

2003
The Girl and the Dogs
N/A

Mette, Lina and Anna Sophie, three teenagers, are on their way to a party. A strange discovery on a local beach will change the very nature of their friendship.

The Girl and the Dogs

2014
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3.3

Maria's ex-boyfriend Kristian is homeless and moves back in with Maria. Maria works as a nurse at the home of Eeva, a paralyzed writer.

Pietà

2007
Hobbyhorse Revolution
6.5

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

Hobbyhorse Revolution

2017
Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?
6.1

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.

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?

2012
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N/A

A documentary film in which the author lives to the full one summer day with her father - a day that the father planned in a letter to his daughter, but which never came true because of the father's death.

Päivä isän kanssa

1999
Thomas
7.2

Thomas, a former doctor, a widower, lives alone in a basement apartment in Helsinki. His routine becomes even more limited when his misanthropic brother dies, reducing Thomas' human contact to practically nil. As with many seniors, he's basically invisible to passersby, though Thomas in particular avoids engaging with those around him. When he runs into his estranged daughter Marie, he tries to create a bridge.

Thomas

2009
Pony Girls
N/A

A documentary about girls and horses, care and competition, the unique world of youth and growing into adulthood.

Pony Girls

2008
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7.0

A film about a girl whose best friend is a fish and her crush is a raccoon. Ruutana is a film about the need to touch. You can't live alone, but on the other hand you can't force someone to be close to you.

Ruutana

2001