Mika Kaurismäki

A British writer pursues a young actress to Hollywood and needs all the help he can get to win her love. (imdb)

The film follows the lives of three young people, a young man, his fiancée and his best friend. After some unexplained disaster, Helsinki is virtually deserted, only a few residents remain and most of them are affected by the disaster. (eyeforfilm.co.uk)

In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter... (imdb)

A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other. (imdb)

Revered drummer Billy Cobham serves as host, taking the audience on a long musical journey around the world and through a myriad of musical genres and styles. Cobham, Kaurismäki, and co. segue from Western concert halls and stages to the music of African tribes performed by Brazilian street children to the distinct music of autistic patients... (All Movie Guide)

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong. (imdb)

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses. (imdb)

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down? (imdb.com)

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe. (imdb)

Alex is Finnish and married to an Italian who works as a taxi driver in Berlin. One night in his taxi come two men with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by gangsters whose money was stolen. During the shooting, they get killed, and he must get rid of their bodies. (Written by Karlo)

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.

A musical documentary and tribute about "choro", an older style of playing that forms the foundation of all Brazilian composition, including samba and bossa nova.

Matti (51), a police inspector, Erkki (51), photographer and Rauno (51), actor, are childhood friends, who haven't seen each other for a long time. They meet accidentally on Christmas Eve in Helsinki and spend the night together in a karaoke bar. Between drinking and singing they tell about the joys and sorrows of their lives, revealing some painfull experiences and taking even their friendship apart. The events take a dramatic turn, when a mysterious woman enters the bar.

A documentary about Brazilian music.

Long lost son come back home for the birthday of father of three brothers. Old monsters wake up during meeting. (muutanet)

Miriam Makeba was a Grammy Award-winning singer from South Africa, as well as a civil rights activist. "Mama Africa" pays homage to this extraordinary woman who grew to incarnate the voice and the hope of Africa. (kinofestivalis.lt)

Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape. (imdb)

A documentary of three Finnish bands on tour around lake Saimaa. Bands on boat are Hassisen Kone, Eppu Normaali and Juice Leskinen Slam. (imdb)

A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest -- about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father -- is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues and the value of reconnecting with one's roots. (tiff.net)

THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality. (imdb)

Giancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland. His new target is Maria. Rosso arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and comes in hers apartment. (imdb)

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world

Chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote village in Finland to connect with an old Finnish friend he once met in Shanghai. Upon arrival, nobody in the village seems to know his friend but local café owner Sirkka offers him accommodation and in return Cheng helps her in the kitchen surprising the locals with the delights of Chinese cuisine. Gradually his cooking encourages these vastly different cultures to connect and Cheng is soon a celebrated member of the community. (imdb)

The Grump goes to search for a second-hand car in Germany to replace his broken one but ends up settling accounts with his past. (imdb)