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Sari Aaltonen is a Finnish cinematographer and a member of Finnish Society of Cinematographers F.S.C.
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Cleaning Woman
Act like Woman on the Street
event2018 star_border 6
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Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.
Dark Floors
Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 4.9
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A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
Euthanizer
Production Design (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.5
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Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. The only innocent party in the drama that ensues is the dog itself.
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.2
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Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?
Tits
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.3
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Pipsa wants a better life. She is sure that new breasts will help her to achieve it. But where to get the money for the surgery?
Fantasy
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7
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In 1989 a country boy doesn't want to eat potatoes at home. He wants to introduce something more exotic to his parents. One day he takes his savings and his moped to a pizzeria in town.
Land of Love
First Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 4.6
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A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
Eila
Second Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.5
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A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
8 Days to Premiere
First Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 4.5
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A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
Sauna
First Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.3
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It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
Light Light Light
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.5
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Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light.
Mun Lappi
Cinematography (1 ep.)
event2005
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Short film by Hanna Bergholm.
Hobbyhorse Revolution
Cinematography (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.5
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A film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.
Hustlers
First Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 4.7
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The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
Playground
"B" Camera Operator (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 4.2
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German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working.
Priest of Evil
First Assistant "B" Camera (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 5.5
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Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
Oh No, Lasse Falls!
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2023
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The Munich Olympic Stadium, 1972. Athletes and officials are preparing for the 10,000 metres final. Lasse Virén is warming up on the track. It is not a big day only for Virén but for the whole nation. But one man cannot win alone. It takes a dedicated group of hardworking, reliable people. In a desolate bunker near the track, six Finnish men are preparing to help Lasse achieve the run of his life. A run that changes history. All for the small, relentless nation from the dark cold North.
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief
Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 4.5
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Summer vacation has just begun. In honor of it, Serena Rapper and Lennart Lindberg decide to go on holiday. Ricky gets a new bicycle as a consolation, but it disappears mysteriously. Ricky and Nelly Noodlehead go looking for it which turns into a thrilling adventure.
Raid
Second Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6
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Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.
War and Peace of Mind
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7.3
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War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6
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A choir of tired nurses sing to Anna-Mari Kähärä’s hypnotic tunes about the truths of everyday nursing work in a musical documentary directed by Susanna Helke and co-scripted by Helke and Markku Heikkinen. DocPoint’s opening film is new in its format, and jolting in its message. It is a cinematic-musical work of activism, calling for more humane work, life and old age.
Wonderland
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.3
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Recently divorced Helena is getting anxious about spending christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend old time christmas on a farm - only place they can afford.
Tuulikki
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 8.5
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Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not wanting to let Tuulikki out of her sight. Tuulikki fights back, but nothing seems to be making a difference. Finally, the mother-daughter relationship escalates when the circumstances prove too much for both of them.
Jade Warrior
First Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 5.1
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Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a man fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in modern Finland.
First World Problems
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2014
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Losing a car in a car park can be the end of the world or the beginning of another.
Death Is a Problem for the Living
Additional Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.4
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The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
First Assistant Camera (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 6.2
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Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
Elämä on juhla
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
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After spending Midsummer in the archipelago, life will never be the same for the Eerola family.
Rolli and the Secret of All Time
"C" Camera Operator (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 5.5
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Rolli and little elf girl Juniper along with the rest of the rollis and other strange creatures lead peaceful and rollishly fun lives in their flourishing Rolli Village. One day the inquisitive friends Rolli and Juniper hear incredible news from Malcolm the Maggot: somewhere far away, beyond mountains, forests and the sea, lies a place called The Beginning of All Time. That’s where the storks always take off on their trips to deliver babies in small bundles to their new homes. Rolli and Juniper cannot help but become curious. Both of them have fallen into Rolli Village in a bundle from the sky, and especially Juniper has always wondered where she came from. The two friends decide to throw themselves into a joint adventure. They embark on a trip toward The Beginning of All Time in order to find the answer to life’s greatest secret.
Promise
"B" Camera Operator (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 5.6
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The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Pietà
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 4
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Maria's ex-boyfriend Kristian is homeless and moves back in with Maria. Maria works as a nurse at the home of Eeva, a paralyzed writer.
Pony Girls
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2008
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A documentary about girls and horses, care and competition, the unique world of youth and growing into adulthood.
Song
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2014
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Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.
Tomato
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 3
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Unemployed actor Kati gets a job as a tomato on a commercial. Turns out that the gig is not what she expected.
Log Head
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 10
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Experimental short film about a birch log with a soul and a pair of skis.
Nimby: Not In My Backyard
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5
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Mervi is a gay girl living in the hipster quarters of Helsinki. She has been together with Kata for a year, and now they are encouraged by the circumstances to come out from closet. When they do, Mervi realises that she is not the only one in her family with secrets – her parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. On the other hand Kata is pretty surprised that she might be living with a hetero girl that once was dating a neo-nazi. And the ex-boy friend cannot swallow that Mervi is now with a person both of wrong color, and sex. The real threat appears when Kata’s parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead chief finds out that a black muslim celebrity politician has arrived to town.
Marzia, My Friend
Cinematography (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 9
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Marzia, My Friend is the story of an Afghan woman in her twenties, who like all young people dreams of love, freedom and an interesting job. She dreams of peace and independence, but because she lives in Afghanistan, her dreams are revolutionary. Ultimately Marzia’s story becomes a symbol of the wider struggle of Afghan women: it is about the right to make decisions about your own life. The film follows Marzia’s life from spring 2011 to the end of 2014, when international troops were due to leave Afghanistan.
My Name Is Dingo
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6
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A boy abandoned by his father wants to become Finland's biggest rock star.
At Home - Finland
Director of Photography (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 9
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Isolated is an antology of short films made by seven Finnish film directors during the covid-19 pandemic. The films are about encountering oneself in isolation. People feel loneliness and it erupts in absurd ways. Family members witness unexpected reactions during the crisis.
Shadow Lines
Cinematography (10 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.3
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During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.
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