Kaija Pakarinen

Summer Is Crazy (2025)

After the bankruptcy of their fine dining restaurant, the Eerolas are stuck in the seaside village of Nauvo with no clear plan for the future. In the shadow of the father's depression both the mother and the teenage daughter rebel against the stagnant life ...

Four Little Adults (2023)

The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she canno ...

Getaways & Dreams (2023)

During one spring day, nine people dreaming of life or running away from it, plus a dog on the run, either meet, pass or collide on a certain road. Sisters Seija and Sanna are on their way to the airport because Seija is moving to Canada. Silja and Ville a ...

Lapland Odyssey 4 (2022)

Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle. ...

Häät ennen hautajaisia (2022)

Wedding planner Joanna needs to find herself a fake boyfriend to cheer up her depressed father. As if on demand, an eccentric undertaker enters Joanna's life with her own motives for looking for a girlfriend. At the same time, Joanna receives some earth-sh ...

Void (2018)

Eero's career as an author is spiraling down: he just can't get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing wors ...

Nuoruustango (2017)

Is love eternal? Or ideology? When erstwhile communists meet at a food course the result is quite the concoction. ...

The Other Side of Hope (2017)

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland. ...

Love and Fury (2016)

In 1980s Helsinki, a city about to burst with young energy and rebellion, two young writers determined to conquer the world fall madly in love. For Inka, the love affair puts everything in motion: she finds her own voice, publishes her first novel, and bec ...

Devil's Bride (2016)

Anna is a 16-year old in a village where women are accused of witchcraft. It's based on the witch hunts on Åland, Finland in the 1600s. ...

The Mine (2016)

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entir ...

Dirty Hands (2015)

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV ada ...

Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014)

Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry B ...

8-Ball (2013)

8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her. ...

Body Fat Index of Love (2012)

Stigu and Ella have a just-sex relationship. Stigu is secretly in love but settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in a same work project: designing an advertisement for the Family Federation on sustainable r ...

Hush (2012)

Sakari and Veera get engaged, madly in love. Not long after, Veera asks Sakari to help her in a matter relating to her father, and in a way that completely shocks Sakari. He does everything in his power to stop her from pursuing her plan. But before the st ...

Almost 18 (2012)

Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents. ...

Stars Above (2012)

Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla – each lives in the same country house. Saima´s story takes place in the war time 1942, when Finland fo ...

Hella W (2011)

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim ...

Letters to Father Jacob (2009)

With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila fin ...

Enkeli tulessa (2004)

Trench Road (2004)

After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house. ...

Joensuun Elli (2004)

The film shows how Midsummer was celebrated in North Karelia in 1973. ...

The Man Without a Past (2002)

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming ...

Sano Oili vaan (2000)

Restless (2000)

Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love. ...

Kiss Me in the Rain (1999)

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband wa ...

Lapin kullan kimallus (1999)

In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard ...

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. ...

Drifting Clouds (1996)

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided t ...

Cupid Aims High (1990)

A comedy of an amateur puppet theater, eviction and modern women with their old-fashioned methods. ...

Irti Maasta (1989)

A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it. ...

Yötyö (1988)

The Wedding Waltz (1988)

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repair ...

Tilinteko (1987)

Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, ...

Lumikit (1986)

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with both tears and laughter. ...

Martinin rikos (1980)

A story about the conflicting emotions of love and hate, duty and selfishness in the human mind. ...