Lilga Kovanko

Family Stories Untold (2023)

Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women's stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins with Iida, 9, who after her parents' nasty divorce helps Mummy find a new man on Tinder, and ends with Lis ...

Two Farewells (2020)

Two Farewells deals with Alzheimer's disease with a respectful sense of humor. ...

Where Once We Walked (2011)

The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War. ...

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 ...

Playing Solo (2007)

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pre ...

The Great Journey (2006)

Short film based on Tove Jansson's novel. ...

For the Living and the Dead (2005)

An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remai ...

Kites Over Helsinki (2001)

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, ho ...

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 ...

A Matter of Life and Death (1986)

"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years. ...

Nattseilere (1986)

Outer Senja in 1877. A young girl is found apparently lifeless among flotsam and seaweed. The storm has washed her ashore. Miraculously, they revive her, but she has lost her memory, and no one knows who she is or where she comes from. They call her "Båre ...

Valkoinen kääpiö (1986)

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia. ...

Aidankaatajat (1982)

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter ...

Aurinkotuuli (1980)

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive. ...

Frihetens murar (1978)

An Argentine actor comes to Sweden. He has pictured Sweden as a paradise. From his small rented room, he tries in vain to make contact with the Swedes. ...

Landet som icke är (1977)

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders. ...

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi (1977)

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli. ...

Near and Far Away (1976)

Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick. ...

Bensaa suonissa (1970)

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love. ...

Vodkaa, komisario Palmu (1969)

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about th ...

Aloittelija keisarillisessa Aleksanterin yliopistossa (1966)