Ringside is a dramatized documentary about a boxer preparing for the last fight of his life which turns out to be a fight with himself, too. It is about the life of a boxer, the fierce ambition and the madness of it all, and the strange beauty that is also a part of it. After drifting to the verge of suicide in his private life, the hero has found new happiness, and this determines the way of…

The film follows the hurdler runner Arto Bryggare’s life during the one and half years after his achilles tendon broke in 1988. Bryggare desperately tries to make a comeback as a hurdler, even though his legs can’t take it any longer. The fight of the unyielding and stubborn Bryggare against time and physical limitations is interlocked with shots of sports events from the past. They recount the…

  A documentary film about the making of the Tourist clay animation. The film observes the work of the team through the different phases of making the film to it being completed. The camera follows the team almost everywhere, home, to the workshop, the editing suite, music studio etc. The documentary demonstrates the difficulties of making a clay animation, and the hard work that goes…

The Tale of the Pond Maiden is based on Anni Swan’s fairy tale The Sea Queen and Her Son. With the shadow animation technique realised by the theatre company Teatteri Vunukka, the story has been adapted to a cinematographic form. The Old Lady of the Pond, who inhabits a small pond, gives her daughter to the Great King of the Sea for a wife. The daughter, unhappy with her fate, gives birth to the…

  A creature slightly like a human is born amid beautiful nature. With nature’s help, the creature learns to thrive and survive. He sees traces of possible visits from more intelligent beings and realizes the possibilities of controlling, utilizing and exploiting nature. The creature’s appetite grows as he eats, and finally, nature retaliates. Mother Nature won’t look at selfish…

A film about the unchangeability of man and the heritage of revenge, which passes on from one generation to another. The story starts from the Stone Age and evolves to today, dealing with the brutality of man and his inability to rid himself of the burdens of the past.

Aaro Heikkilä; the City Manager of Joensuu, known as the ’Village Chief’, has both charmed and angered people with his confident manners, straight talk, and actions that waver somewhere between legal and illegal. Aaro Iivari Aukusti, farmer’s son is a portrait of Aaro Heikkilä. It was shot during a time when Heikkilä was temporarily expelled from his position as the City Manager on suspicion of…

  A clay animation about people’s prejudices and their inability to accept differences.

A film composed of photographs of Frank Masereel’s graphics. The story deals with man’s will to power and the destruction it creates.

Next Christmas is a film about a young woman’s love, and the war, which alters the course of her life. Every Christmas the woman waits for her husband to return from the war, not accepting the fact that he has died. The film was meant to be part of a trilogy named Faces of War (Next Christmas, The Hero and The Soldier). The lack of funding, however, brought the filming of the second part to an…