Einari Paakkanen

Forgetting Lenin (2024)

For many Finns, Lenin is to thank for Finland's independence from Russia in 1917. But with Putin's aggression in Ukraine, citizens of the town of Kotka have to re-evaluate their views about Finland's last remaining Lenin statue. ...

Karaoke Paradise (2022)

Evi, Finland's most experienced karaoke hostess, wants to hug her customers' pain away. With thousands of bars and kilometres behind her, yet again she packs her equipment and travels through the northern landscapes of Finland. Toni, the shyest guy in the ...

Games People Play (2020)

Group of old friends gather in a summer villa to celebrate a surprise birthday party for Mitzi, who is the dramatic focal point of the group. The weekend starts ominously when Mitzi does not respond well to the surprise party. It turns out that Mitzi has j ...

Cross-country (2019)

The film is a personal documentary and a growth story about ten-year-old Farah who moved to Finland from Palestine. ...

My Father from Sirius (2016)

My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father's worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paakkanen, ...

Where Is Thon? (2016)

One night Thon went drinking with two friends and disappeared. What happened? Where is Thon? A mystery and an absurd manhunt that eventually involves John F. Kennedy, Elvis and the whole planet. ...

Promised Land (2015)

A Catastrophic Road Movie documentary in search of a virtuous politician ... that's if he is not extinct ! Antonio , Einari, Ivan ( and a makeshift boom ) travel from Helsinki to Barcelona, Buenos Aires to Montevideo and to the desert of Bolivia in search ...

Permanent Together (2013)

Dirty Bomb (2011)

Mirccu has a dream job as the PR coordinator of a record company. When her boss, the music mogul Martin threatens to fire her, she is forced to find her own way to success. Together with her football-playing boyfriend Roba who is recovering from an ankle i ...

Princess (2010)

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945. ...

Gimme Some Respect (2010)

Young Siiri is starting her life on her own. She wants to be independent and live a normal life, although she is mentally handicapped. She begins to make true of her dreams, where she has a real working place and she hopes to find also a husband. ...

The Finest and the Greatest (2008)

Girls' Night (2008)

In a Helsinki suburb on a Friday evening, a middle‑aged mother and her teenage daughter each go out separately with friends. Both seek validation and flirt with self‑image, desiring to feel attractive, young, and alive. ...

Black Ice (2007)

Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she ...

My Father from Sirius (2016)

My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father's worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paakkanen, ...