Joonas Berghäll

The Elf (2025)

Siblings Lumi and Talvi are separated as children. In search of her sister, Lumi ends up in Elfland, where elves prepare Christmas presents for all the children of the world. The elves are initially suspicious of the human child who appears out of nowhere, ...

My Fathers' Daughter (2025)

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when ...

Je'vida (2023)

Iida, an elderly Sámi woman, who has abandoned her roots under the pressure of forced Finnishization, is conflicted between selling her old homestead and hiding her cultural heritage from her niece, as the rural way of life she has suppressed begins to cr ...

Breathe me back to life (2021)

Story of a healing process of sámi woman who has post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual violence. ...

Resistant (2021)

Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century. Pekurinen spoke out for pacifism, conscientious objection and peace, and received support for his actions around the world. However, his worldview collided with the na ...

The Red Ring (2021)

Director, Joonas Berghäll, suffers from chronic Lyme disease. He looks for a cure to his illness and by doing so finds himself thrown into the midst of a worldwide lobby-driven and political medical debate about Lyme disease and the threat of it becoming ...

Killing Tony (2020)

A workaholic deliveryman struggles not to be terminated by the flashy social butterfly screaming inside him. ...

Held for Ransom (2019)

HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows ...

The Happiest Man on Earth (2019)

A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has learned that he will die in 14 years' time, unless he changes his way of living or attitude towards life. Joonas wants to make a film about the state of well ...

Baby Jane (2019)

Jane, a small-town girl, has moved to Helsinki and the world is finally open for her. Passionate and excited, she seeks adventure, all the things she has yearned for so long. Jane gravitates to a gay bar at night, staggers in her nervous state of mind, and ...

Entrepreneur (2018)

Entrepreneur is a universal nature documentary about Finnish entrepreneurs. This warm and carnevalistic film portrays humans in the middle of ordinary everyday survival. The main protagonists come from two totally different kinds of landscapes, from two di ...

Kaisa's Enchanted Forest (2016)

Examines the extraordinary lifelong friendship between Skolt Sámi storyteller Kaisa Gauriloff and the Swiss-Russian author Robert Crottet through the eyes of Gauriloff's great-granddaughter Katja. ...

Mother's Wish (2015)

An astronaut sends her young son a video message from outer space. In Mexico, a stripper dances night after night to keep a roof over her child's head. In Canada, a woman becomes a mother for the first time after enduring seven miscarriages. Finnish filmma ...

Canned Dreams (2012)

Canned Dreams shows the multi-branching network of the modern food industry. The Finnish consumer buys a can in the grocery store, but where from far away do the raw materials and packaging materials for the preserves come from - and through how many hands ...

Silence (2011)

A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly centres ne ...

Tervanpolttaja (2011)

Steam of Life (2010)

Finnish men in sauna, speaking straight from the heart. ...

Viikate – Videogaala (2008)

A Shout into the Wind (2007)

The fate of a culture lies on the shoulders of few determined individuals. ...

The Happiest Man on Earth (2019)

A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has learned that he will die in 14 years' time, unless he changes his way of living or attitude towards life. Joonas wants to make a film about the state of well ...