Jari Pehkonen

100 Liters of Gold (2025)

Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called "sahti". The third sister, Päivi, is getting married, and she asks her sisters if they can make 100 liters of sahti for the wedding. Unfortunately, it's too good not t ...

The Hullabaloos! (2022)

The birthday of twin boys, Mökö and Luru, takes the family Kiljunen to Helsinki, where their dog gets accidentally switched with the president's dog. Mökö and Luru rush to save their dog, while mother and father Kiljunen take over the city from land, s ...

Hit Big (2022)

Marjaleena, a 60-year-old drunk ex-beauty pageant, runs a low end bar in Spain's Costa del Sol. She discovers that her criminal husband Worm is about to get out of jail and is planning a dream life with his new cell-mate lover. Together with an uncanny cre ...

Linnan juhlat (2017)

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, b ...

They Have Escaped (2014)

Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home. ...

The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand (2014)

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time. ...

Gloriously Wasted (2012)

Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of cour ...

Love and Other Troubles (2012)

Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher. ...

Legend of the Lake Bodom (2006)

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bo ...

Frozen City (2006)

Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core. ...

Rumble (2002)

A summery, boozy road movie in which Leo aimlessly drives a group of aging teddy bears through the Finnish countryside in a red Cadillac. The film centers on the bromance of middle-aged men, booze, and pizza, which they decide to order to their moving car. ...

Little Sister (1999)

Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, s ...

Hermit Crab (1999)

A human-sized story about an old-fashioned man. ...

Poliisin poika (1998)

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver. ...

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners (1997)

A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and "impossible" stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun. ...

Lahja (1997)

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband. ...

Syrjähyppyjä (1996)

An unemployed actor falls in love with a theater director, who gives him work. Both of them are in relationships, and their little lies gradually pile up into bigger ones. ...

The Last Wedding (1995)

Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with ...

Johanneksen leipäpuu (1994)

Manical portrait of a small businessman. ...

Viimeiset siemenperunat (1993)

Kissa ja Varjo (1993)

Kissa is a former thief and Varjo is a police officer. One morning, a woman walks into the men's private detective agency, and they both fall in love with her. To avoid a fight, Varjo takes his boat and leaves. When the sunburnt man returns years later, th ...

Back to the USSR (1992)

Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him. ...

V. Y. Vihdoinkin yhdessä (1986)

Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from. ...

Hamlet (1985)

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Direct television broadcast from Kino Helsinki. Students from Theatre A ...

Kun Hunttalan Matti Suomen osti (1984)

Matti Hunttala is a businessman who buys, sells, exchanges, and steals—whatever best suits his plans. The men of Hukansalmi municipality do not suspect Hunttala's grand promises. Business representative Koistinen, municipal manager Kiiskinen, and bank ma ...

Starring: Jouko Turkka (1984)

The controversial Jouko Turkka, actor, writer, teacher and stage director. With his mostly devoted students at the Theatre Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Where he was appointed professor of stage production 1981-1984. ...