The letter, received by the Finnish National Radio’s phone-in program, hopes that in this era of Metoo and many other well-meaning campaigns, attention will be drawn to an unpleasant phenomenon, the use of the name “Urpo” as a synonym for idiot.

In this warm-hearted and humorous documentary, fou...

Dancehall dancer Evaleena Vuorenmaa gains 40 kilos and is forced to face the judging gaze of her employers, society and even herself. Fat Dance is a short documentary about a woman, who decides to take the power into her own hands and build her image the way she wants it to be. Is it really true ...

When Jasmin’s parents decide to move their family back to her dad’s home country, Somaliland, she is faced with the biggest change of her life. She has to say goodbye to the familiar playgrounds in the Finnish suburbs, as well as her best friend Maryam. When she arrives, an avalanche of things hi...

When Finnish-Somalian Mustafe discovers his ancestors' land in the horn of Africa is full of copper and gold, he decides to swap his family's safe but boring life in the Nordics for Somaliland, a self-declared state in East Africa. As Mustafe struggles to lift the treasures from underground, his ...

Three individuals in an old prison confront their personal obstacles. Time goes by inevitably and all three have their own opinion about it. Freedom or the lack of it shows itself in a various forms.

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Kolme henkilöä kohtaa omat esteensä lopetustuomion saaneessa vankilassa. Aika sykkii vääj...

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Dokumenttielokuva Forssan Kuhalan koulun oppilaista, jotka ottivat yläasteen kuvaamataidontunnilla tatuoinnit. Yksi tatuoinnin ottaneista oppilaista, ohjaaja Kati Kanerva, lähtee etsimään vanhoja koulukavereitaan. Aikuistuminen ei ole helppoa ja paljon on tapahtunut 15 vuodessa...

The United States. Today. A freight train crosses the landscape like a giant steel snake. One day, Ivy, Karen and Christina left everything behind to defy danger and cross the country on board freight trains. They wait for them, hiding in the bushes, sleeping under highway bridges.

Amid the grin...

Russia’s current patriotic bluster and turn to ultra conservative values have driven many of its citizens to flee abroad. Grey Violet (not he or she, but ze) is a mathematician by profession, an activist by heart and one of those who has had to leave Russia for fear of imprisonment. In Moscow, ze...

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Kittilässä asuva Hannu harjoittelee hiihtoa innokkaan ammattilaishiihtäjäisänsä valmennuksessa. Hannusta on povattu Lapin uutta olympiatoivoa ja isän tavoite on saada Hannu valmennettua maajoukkueeseen. Isän ja pojan suhde perustuu hiihdolle, joten miten heidän käy kun...

NASA roboticist and Curiosity -rover driver Vandi Verma works on Mars on a daily basis from her desk at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Los Angeles. Her work of navigating the rover in the Martian terrain relies to a large part on images and the technologically advanced use of them. The f...

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Miia valmentaa rovaniemeläistä nuorten cheerleaderjoukkuetta ja on kyllästynyt sen huonoon menestykseen. Hän matkustaa cheerleadingin synnyinseudulle, Texasiin, missä maailman parhaiden cheerleaderien määrätietoisuus antaa hänelle uuden suunnan valmennukseen. Palattuaan Suomeen...

Hannu Karpo on suomalainen ikoni, joka on tallentunut kansakunnan muistiin: oman tiensä kulkija, joka raportoi väsymättä ja kuvia kumartamatta tavallisten suomalaisten ihmisten kohtaamista vääryyksistä. Kaikki siis tietävät Karpon, mutta harva tuntee miehen karvahatun alla. Elokuva Karpo kuvaa Ha...