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The Locker Room 2024
Two boys in middle school are forced to confront their biggest fear: the school’s locker room.

ABBA: Against the Odds 2024 star_border 7
This year marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s iconic Eurovision victory, a milestone that calls for a celebratory cinematic tribute fitting for the ultimate pop band. ‘ABBA: Against the Odds’ unveils the epic journey of ABBA’s rise to global fame. Starting with the moment they won Eurovision, it tells the story of how they overcame critical backlash, societal attitudes and marital break-up to deliver their ground-breaking music and prove themselves as a live act.

Kalak 2024 star_border 6
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.

Russian Gas and the Nenets 2023 star_border 9
In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year the nomads undertake a journey of 1500 km. But for how much longer can they survive? Today in Yamal, pastures have given way to gas fields. Growing towns, a railway, an airport, the deep scars on the landscape caused by extraction of gas and oil, and the new nuclear-powered icebreakers, which will create busy shipping lanes in the Arctic, are all changing the local ecosystem. With the industry dramatically modifying the landscape, accelerating the effects of global warming, the Nenets way of life is under threat. The documentary gives a unique insight into a vanishing way of life, enhanced by stunning aerial footage, and rare access to an extraordinary people.

Breaking Social 2023 star_border 5
The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the social tissue, followed by social uprisings. In Chile a new turn is taken, with young women in the lead.

Hair Like Waterfall 2023
Hair is an extension of the nervous system. It can rightly be seen as external nerves, sort of well-developed sense horns or antennae, which transmit a huge amount of important information to the brain stem, limbic system and neocortex.

Mekong - kun kalat katosivat 2023
China, Laos and Cambodia are building more and more dams on Mekong river. Electric companies collect the profits, but river's ecosystems are losing and people are losing their livelihood.

Track Two 2023
A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The journey leads him back to his teenage years in the 1990s depression, over-generational substance abuse and past encounters. This partly essayistic, autobiographical documentary tells the story of friendship and generational experiences while also pondering on the causes and effects of destinies in the judgmental atmosphere of our society.

The Blanket 2022 star_border 6
Ten-year-old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice.

Playing with Gods 2022
The documentary dives intimately behind the scenes of the Finnish National Opera and sucks the viewer in like the best of thrillers. The three hours fly by, even for those who aren’t necessarily interested in opera as an art form.

The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti: Winterton Rules 2022
Mayor Chrome lays out rules from his precious rule book. Follow our trio trying to adhere to the silly guidelines such as “When ice fishing, everyone must be absolutely silent."

The Strait Guys 2022 star_border 6
THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia. The “Strait Guys” endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project, which would provide ground-based infrastructure across the continents, relieve overcrowded Pacific ports, improve global supply chains, and ease tensions between the superpowers. The US and Russia have been successfully collaborating in space for decades. Now the Strait Guys are out to prove it is also possible down here on earth.

To Repaint your Life 2022
Alexander Torbica was raised in a dysfunctional family where both alcohol and violence were present. Today he's 23 years old and has gotten an opportunity to create an installation about his life. His mother hasn't visited him in 5 year. Now He presents his life to her.

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga 2022 star_border 9
Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time.

Minority Within a Minority 2021
Ritni Pieski wishes it was easier for Sámi queer youth to grow up in their community. In this short film, Pieski addresses the lack of representation and information about queer people and rights within the Sámi people.

The Fantastic 2021 star_border 6
In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In addition to the 'waste videos', South Korean films were also smuggled into the country via China.

The Other Side of the River 2021 star_border 8
To avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala finds refuge across the Euphrates River in northeastern Syria at a military academy where, while learning to fight, she vows to fight to free all women.

Yle Live: Blind Channel 2021
Finland's Eurovision Song Contest Blind Channel performed in Helsinki in August 2021. The energetic band attracted fans from Central Europe to their gig at Allas Sea Pool.

The Innocents 2021 star_border 6.9
Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

Women on the Frontline 2021
At five o'clock in the evening, Red Cross and OSCE observers leave the front line and leave the fighters under fire. Hypocrisy takes over, and here begins the story of these women, which first kicked off in Maidan Square in Kiev. Heartache and hatred, broken love, wrong decisions and yet hope for a new life, even in the face of death. This is a documentary about the war that broke out in the spring of 2014 in Eastern Ukraine through the eyes of women.

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Blind Channel: After Dark Side 2024
The documentary series observes Finnish nu-metal Blind Channel's journey towards global conquest. The episodes reveal the harsh realities of touring life and album production as the band strives for international success

Jaakko Keso: Tämä on Amerikka 2024
Jaakko Keso travels through Middle America to find out why the country is so polarized.

Teatterikorkea - näyttämölle valitut 2024
Theatre Academy - chosen for stage

In Her Car 2024 star_border 4.5
In February 2022, at the turn of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, therapist Lydia is trying to divorce her husband. Instead of following her daughter’s advice and fleeing the country, Lydia starts helping strangers, becoming a source of transport.

Kriittinen piste 2024

Nepsyt toimistossa 2024

Suomi on queer 2023
Finland is Queer - Queer history of Finland

The First Days 2023 star_border 8.5
A unique drama anthology series for our time, inspired by true events which happened in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As the brutal war got underway, every second person left Kyiv. Yet every second person remained. These are their stories – variously moving, funny, sad, stark, unsettling, and uplifting.

Prison Project: Little Scandinavia 2023
A US prison decides to try out the methods of the Scandinavian prison system. But there are challenges ahead. Can the Americans succeed in focusing on rehabilitating prisoners instead of punishing them and changing staff attitudes, while overcoming the covid-19 pandemic?

Brennpunkt: Skyggekrigen 2023 star_border 8

Afturelding 2023 star_border 5.5
Years after burning out and falling from grace, a middle aged, 90s handball legend seeks to redeem himself by returning to his childhood club to coach the women's team where he clashes with a new generation of women in a post #MeToo society.

66th North Precinct 2023 star_border 5
Police work, boxing and family life in Lapland! Maria Pudas (Saara Kotkaniemi), a former boxing world champion, investigates crimes with her partner Samu Pajala (Karim Rapatti) in Lapland. The life of Maria's cordial and slightly chaotic family (Iina Kuustonen, Eero Saarinen, Katariina Kaitue and Heikki Ranta) changes when Maria's father Esko has a seizure and it is revealed that he has debts of 500,000 euros. In order to save her family, Maria decides to return to the ring once more, and to resolve the situation, only victory matters.

Hengaillaan 2023
Hengaillaan is a Saturday night entertainment programme that combines quizzes, live music and taste tourism. Hosted by Jenni Poikelus and judged by Riku Rantala. Celebrity contestants will be taken on a journey to destinations in Finland, Europe and the world to test their knowledge in a series of changing questions. The topics include everything from contemporary entertainment to history, music, sport and geography. Master chef Kozeen Shiwan will put the teams' taste buds to the test with food questions inspired by the destinations. An intermittent live band will bring its own rhythm to the tracks.

Selma Lagerlöf 2022 star_border 7
Selma Lagerlöf's life and work never ceases to fascinate and to be relevant. Selma Lagerlöf broke with the old role of women that she was expected to accept. Against her father's wishes, she applied for, and was admitted to, a teacher training college in Stockholm. She would now be on her own. And she had a particular goal, she knew she had "a strong star"; she had stories in her, and she saw beyond the visible.

Carmen Curlers 2022 star_border 7
In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

Gaialand 2022 star_border 8
In the Paris of the 80's, a group of young idealists, sensing an ecological catastrophe to come, want to show that another world is possible. Guided by a mysterious Amerindian shaman, they practice veganism, set up organic stores and live in teepees in the middle of buildings. Quickly accused by their families and the press of being manipulated, they start a long ecological march through Europe. A chase begins between the members of this community and those who accuse them of being under their control. After 10 years of wandering, the "Tribe" finally settles in Finland, in the extreme conditions of the Great North, to live its Utopia of a tribal life in harmony with nature: how far are they willing to save "Gaïaland"? Thanks to unique archives and rare testimonies of former followers, the "Gaïaland" series dives into the fascinating true story of this community and its demons.

Natsi-Saksa ja Suomi 2022
A four-part history series examines relations between Nazi Germany and Finland in the 1930s and 1940s. The series explores how the close relationship between Finland and Germany was born and developed, and what was known in Finland about the Holocaust, the mass extermination of the Jews at a time when the countries were at war together. Through archives and expert interviews, it explores how close Finns were to the Nazi German leadership.

The Unstoppable Yellow Yeti 2022 star_border 4.5
Small town life above the Arctic Circle snowballs out of control when an enormous, outrageous, and unstoppable Yellow Yeti arrives in town and befriends two 12-year-old kids.

Untold Arctic Wars 2022 star_border 8.5
A six-part documentary series about the least known events of World War II. The series reveal a little-known picture and countless unknown details of the events of World War II in the north.

Linna 2022
New modern women's prison in Hämeenlinna received new residents in late 2020. Prisoners Lilja, Jane and Mirella are moving in from the temporary facilities with anticipation, while the staff are trying to adapt to the changing conditions and different working spaces.

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