Kati Outinen

The second installation of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland Trilogy," this touching and amusing film portrays a man who must start his life anew when he is brutally mugged and loses his memory. (Sony Pictures Classics)

The recession hits a couple in Helsinki. (imdb)

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster... (imdb)

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. (imdb)

Seven internationally respected filmmakers offer different perspectives on time and fate -- some witty, some somber -- in this omnibus film, with the stories linked by performances from jazz great Hugh Masekela.

The story is about two boys, Matti and Niila who grow up together. Throughout his childhood Niila is regularly beaten up by his father but tries to not make a fuss about it while Matti grows up in a harmless family. Just this difference gives them quite contrary outlooks on life. While Matti may consider it cool to get out of Pajala once he grows up, Niila absolutely has to leave. (earthlingsoft.net)

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel. (imdb)

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more. (imdb)

Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking? (imdb)

Sauna follows a group of Swedish and Russian soldiers who are assigning new borders after a decades long war between the two countries has ended. The soldiers find a small isolated village in the very center of a large swamp, an eerie place where no children have been born in years and the old do not die. It seems almost as if God has forgotten them. (imdb user)

The principal character of the movie is 14 years old Juhani (played by Niilo Syväoja), haunted and oppressed by a traumatic childhood experience. After being bounced between foster homes and temporary families for six years, Juhani ends up in a Boys' Home, The Island. (solarfilms.com)

An experimental narrative about two young Arab boys who kill their French friend, a boy of their own age, in the late 1950s.

Tuula and Juhani are going to divorce. They live in the same house and they need a new set of rules for living together. All hell is going to break loose when Juhani breaks rules by bringing a new woman to house with him.

Two teenagers from Helsinki are sent on a mission by their drug dealer. (imdb)

"Le Havre" tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child.

In a multi-cultural district of Helsinki, Vuosaari, a personal dramas of few people are happening in white and gray scenery of Finnish winter.

Two biologists hire philosophizing lumberjack Konsta Pylkkänen as a guide for a journey through Kainuu backwoods.

Life is hard on restless teens in the late 70s/early 80s Helsinki.

Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years... As they hesitantly agree to a reunion, they begin to find that the only way back to the top is through forgiveness. (themoviedb.org)

A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived from Finland. (imdb)

A murder investigation of a slain business man turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on 2008 New Yorker article by David Grann. (imdb)

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O'Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated. (movielens)