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The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.
On a road trip across Finland, Jari stops in a small town where he meets Marja. The young people continue their journey together all the way to Haaparanta, until a police raid reveals that Jari's car is stolen. Their escape takes them even further north, where they team up with a gold miner.
The rap group from Hyvinkää performs its hugely popular songs.
A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend.
An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows
The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
Meet the Feebles for kids.
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.
A child acquires a magical video game that he uses to influence the world around him.
The degenerate alcoholics, the men and women of the beaches, themselves speak openly about their lives and problems. Through their stories, a picture emerges of those on the periphery of society who succumbed to alcohol because of war or difficult living conditions. They are aware of their own State; reason is still there, but the Will is lacking. The film is a cry for help on behalf of humans, it is a dispassionate and honest description of the position of degenerate alcoholics in Finnish society in the early 1970s.
The film is a follow-up documentary to the film Rantannen miehet, which won the top prize at the 1971 Tampere Film Festival. there's always hope is kale's story. He is one of the few to have emerged from ”the beaches.” Through Kale, the film tells the story of how to break free from addictions and go on living a normal life.