Aki Kaurismäki

In modern-day Helsinki, Ansa and Holappa, two lonely souls in search of their first love, meet by chance in a local karaoke bar. However, the ...

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. ...

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, ...

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor ...

A 57 minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a ...

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive ...

Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He’s a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but ...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was ...

A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he ...

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.

After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager ...

This droll tale of longing and awkward romance follows two misfits – a coffee addict and a vodka-soaked mechanic – as they hit the ...

After fifteen years’ service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can’t go through with ...

Iris has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats ...

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

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone’s classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki ...

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

Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a ...

Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he ...

Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a ...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.