Aleksi Salmenperä

A former stone worker in search of employment takes a most unanticipated career turn in director Aleksi Salmenpera's thoughtful character study. Juha (Tommi Korpela) is out of a job, but he's trying to keep his unemployed status a secret from his clinically depressed wife Katja (Maria Heiskanen). (Rovi)

Longtime couple Venla (Minna Haapkyla) and Antero (Kari-Pekka Toivonen) come to a serious impasse in this wry Finnish drama. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor. (imdb)

Tragicomedy about an overly concerned father, who messes up his relationship with his children and new wife. Followed by an ugly divorce the father has been bringing up the son by himself while the mother has had the custody of the daughter. Sixteen years later the mother passes away and the brother and sister meet again and enjoy each other's company. Father tries to intervene in his children's life with good intentions and tragicomic outcomes.

Fictionalized story about the founding of the ill-fated Finnish mining company Talvivaara. (imdb)

Alcan Highway is a film about a journey, a dream which seems to be coming true. But is it what Hese really wanted? (imdb)

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a successful actress and a struggling writer.