Eero Saarinen

Director, film historian, professor Peter von Bagh takes us on a stroll down the memory lane, to the 1950's small-town Oulu, the town where he grew up. This extensive film essay utilizes a variety of archive materials: Film footage, still photos, paintings and other art works. The film paints a kaleidoscopic view of the arctic town and its spirit, awakening one youth, one era, one town magically. The movie is personal and local as well as general and universal. (muisteja.illume.fi)

A family like a nation: Finland's painful path to independence, its development from a poor rural backwater to a prime example of progress and liberalism as seen through three generations of the Aho family. (filmfestivalrotterdam.com)

A finnish adaptation of Herman Melville's Bartleby, set in a small machine shop. Partanen, the owner, lives for his job and struggles to understand his family, who are leaving him. Along comes Moilanen, a man of few words and a mysterious will to do nothing.