Kari Hietalahti

Super Furball and the Lying Squirrel (2025)

A little girl has secret superpowers but can't use them when a highway project is threatening the nearby forest. Desperate to save it, she invents an elaborate lie about an endangered flying squirrel inhabiting the woods. ...

Never Alone (2025)

1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo. ...

The Unhanged (2023)

The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. ...

Lapland Odyssey 4 (2022)

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

Super Furball Saves the Future (2022)

To save the world, Super Furball has to save the bees. In order to do so, the heroic guinea pig has to redeem the biggest bully in school. ...

On Thin Ice (2022)

Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his tail, pa ...

The Potato Venture (2020)

A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the ...

The Bouncer (2020)

A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims. ...

The Longest Day (2020)

Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking village, while the sun never sets. ...

The Human Part (2018)

Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka's parents unexpectedly c ...

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre (2018)

One woman's desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks. ...

Super Furball (2018)

Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn't be more ordinary. But one day Emilia's pet hamster bites her finger. Emilia gets a secret superpower to transform into Super Furball, who can fly ...

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 ...

Tom of Finland (2017)

Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the ho ...

Love Records (2016)

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland. ...

Heavysaurs: The Movie (2015)

Heavysaurs is a partly-animated, live-action family adventure about two kids who find five funny dinosaur creatures that love to eat and play rock music. When the creatures are taken into captivity, their rescue takes the kids on an exciting adventure full ...

Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015)

It's been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they've had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Mean ...

Boy Upside Down (2014)

A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents. ...

Towards the Day of Doom (2014)

Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated a ...

The Hijack That Went South (2013)

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story. ...

Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble (2012)

Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother. ...

Once Upon a Time in the North (2012)

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his f ...

Home Sweet Home (2011)

A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones. ...

Body of Water (2011)

Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concern ...

The Inspector (2011)

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate. ...

Lapland Odyssey (2010)

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digita ...

Hellsinki (2009)

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business. ...

The Novelist (2008)

The Päätalo film tells the story of Kalle Päätalo, a carpenter and master builder, and his burning desire to become a writer, as well as the long road that led to the creation of Päätalo's first novel. Too much hard work, too little love in his marri ...

Niko and the Way to the Stars (2008)

A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel. ...

Ganes (2007)

Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After le ...

V2: Dead Angel (2007)

The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion. ...

Man Exposed (2006)

A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku. ...

Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in ...

Promise (2005)

The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women. ...

Vares: Private Eye (2004)

On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions. ...

Young Gods (2003)

Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mans ...

Sibelius (2003)

Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland. ...

Eila (2003)

A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge. ...

Bad Boys: A True Story (2003)

The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. ...

Lovers & Leavers (2002)

This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams? ...

Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods (2001)

Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the vi ...

Sano Oili vaan (2000)

The South (2000)

A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun. ...

Satan in the House (1999)

Woman unexpectedly meets Satan in her attic. ...

Rikos & rakkaus (1999)

In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish's housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani Räikkonen, even though he knows that the man is a petty criminal. Under the leadership of hard-hitting Inspector Rautapää, the city's police force will ...

The Tough Ones (1999)

The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, ...

Kummeli Kultakuume (1997)

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from ...

Yöjuna (1996)

A midnight freight train collides with a mysteriously abandoned truck at Rajamäki station, derailing and revealing that its cargo manifests were falsified. Investigation secretary Ari Nykänen uncovers a scheme smuggling explosives out of the country, wit ...

Esa ja Vesa – auringonlaskun ratsastajat (1994)

Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next door. ...

Romanovin kivet (1993)

This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, bu ...

Mestari (1992)

Eero Tyrni, a reporter for Iltapäivä newspaper, is in Austria doing a story on ski jumper Teemu Kimpilä. Kimpilä's jumps fail and he disappears from the scene. Left behind are his third wife Sari, his sponsors, the Ski Association, and the Finnish peop ...