Imaginaerum (2012)

Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood...

Tuntematon sotilas (1955)

aka: The Unknown Soldier

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns - the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Väinö Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.

Sensuela (1973)

Sensuela is sort of a travelogue type film interwoven with the story of an innocent Lappish girl Laila (Marianne Mardri). Most of the time the viewer will be amused, from the very first frames. At the end of WW2 a German pilot Hans Müller (Mauritz Åkerman) crashes in Finland. There’s a plain, reminding of Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 From Outer Space”, which crashes on a rugged mountains, which appears to be Finland’s northernmost province Lapland. Laila rescues him and they fall in love. Laila’s father notices this and sends Hans away from Finland. Years later (the movie won’t explain how the 20 years went by, the actors look as they’re not aging at all) Hans arrives back to Lapland as a photographer. Laila meets Hans and leaves her home for a new life in Helsinki. She starts to act as her nude model, but soon the unfaitful Hans gets rid of her and gets involved with other women. Laila gets exploited and even the sexual revolution of the 60′s appears to be more limiting than liberating – the women have to give sex for money or totally free, for the sake of liberation.