Moonshine Village is a story about producing moonshine in Kitee, Finland, and its effect on the village's social and economic development between 1960-70. For most families producing Moonshine was a prerequisite. Kitee became one of the most remarkable producers – both in good and bad. According to an 85-year old police officer, in the 1960s there were no villages that were not producing…

Nearly blind Maximiliano, 62, has been given an important task. He has been asked to fix Che Guevara's old car in Havana. Maximiliano's passion are old American cars, and the car he owns has the engine of the car of Fulgencio Batista, the former dictator of Cuba. Maximiliano´s friend, Mario Borges, owns an old American car that used to belong to mobster Meyer Lansky whose fate interlaced closely…

Cuban Jesus Perdomo Triguero has turned the spinning of petrol barrels into an acrobatic art form. Through his performances Jesus supports himself and his family. The film follows Jesus’ trek through Havana from morning until night. The journey resembles a pilgrimage, as the compassionate and sensitive Jesus stops to meet many outcasts of his society. FESTIVALS Selected for 45 international…

A story about dreams and the manipulative power of films in a chaotic Kyrgyzstan, seen through the eyes of two cinema projectionists.

Karmapa - a Voyage on the Roof of the World, the follow-up documentary to the film Karmapa – Two Ways of Divinity, is about the many-year-long realisation of the difficult project and how the filmmakers visited Tibet three times, meeting with the Karmapa Lama. The documentary also tells the story of the moral dilemmas the filmmakers faced in front of a sensitive issue and the shock the Chinese…

Karmapa – Two Ways of Divinity is a unique, award-winning documentary on the Karmapa and how China has used him as a springboard in its politics that have led to violation of religious rights. On another level, the film tells the story of the existence of two rival candidates for Karmapa and how the situation of the two Karmapas has lead to an internal crisis of the Buddhist denomination as…

Temiar Senoi, an indigenous people of Malaysia, live in the realm of unique dream culture. Their exceptionally harmonious and non-violent way of living has been claimed to be a direct result of their dream directed habits. Their sole aim is to exist in balance with nature and fellow man. But nature is under threat by a massive rainforest logging operation masterminded by the Malaysian…

TV drama, 65 min. Year: 1995 A man’s relationship with his wife is unstable. He meets a girl who has just turned 17 at a bar. The girl has run away from a shelter and her life seems to be adrift. They engage in an affair but it is short-lived, and the man returns to his pregnant schoolmistress wife. The traditional triangle drama transforms, however, as the story progresses with surprising…

Vjatheslav Oparin, a reporter living in Russian Karelia, believes that he lives in a close and unique relationship with so-called snowmen. Among other things, he thinks that the snowmen have been observing him all his life and trying to protect him in some way. A film is a depiction of the rare unity of man and nature. It is also a portrayal of difference and how this can be expressed as…

An exuberant comedy about a young man and the disasters that befall him on his way to his own wedding. In the midst of all the adventures, the young man finds time to think over what he is about to do with his life. In a small country town, a family is preparing for the most important community ritual, the daughter´s wedding, with all appropriate details. In the meantime, the luckless…