
Pauliina Punkki
Editing
Known For

Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.
Heartbeats

A romantic fairy tale about a 19-year old orphan girl who, as her sole inheritance, gets an antique key that unlocks both an old Italian villa and the secrets of her family history.
The Italian Key

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their a middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don't do, or that we can't help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.
Recipes For Disaster

Horror short made for the rock band Lordi.
The Kin

In 1938 two young architects, Ragnar and Martta Ypyä, known as Y and Mirri, buy an 8mm camera. Together, they start filming the everyday life of Vyborg. But one year later, life in Vyborg changes irrevocably. The Soviet Union attacks Finland. The Winter War has destroyed the city. Mirri flees to the countryside; Y stays in Vyborg, helping to repair the bomb damage. But they carry on filming.
Y in Vyborg

The documentary follows Finnish MPs in spring 2008 during committee debates on a bill raising health‑care and daycare fees. Over several intense months, it offers a close-up on four parliamentarians navigating closed-door discussions, party strategies, and public opposition. Despite heated arguments and political maneuvering, the bill proceeds largely unchanged.
Within Limits

Director Pauliina Punkki wants to find out what happened in Kittilä, home to 6,500 people and 12,000 reindeer? How a young, green feminist from Kauniainen, first hired and then fired by the municipality as its third mayor, created a snowball effect with no end in sight. A media circus, lawsuits and the new state law Lex Kittilä are just some of the consequences of the snowball effect.
Snowball Effect

Short documentary about sibling violence