Timo Torikka

Power of Love (2023)

Saara and Robert are living a love that is free from traditional conventions and role models. They set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago where the tension between them escalates and becomes a fight for surviva ...

Another Day to Live Through (2023)

A mysteriously injured young woman is looked after by a troubled ex-soldier in his secluded cabin, becoming trapped in a strange and disturbing cycle of danger and abuse. ...

Gracious Night (2021)

The three men enjoy the evening at a bar whose fate is threatened by pandemic restrictions. Bartender Heikki offers discussion help to his friend Risto, who works in the first line of healthcare, and who has just finished a difficult shift. The evening get ...

The Pastor’s Wife (2021)

Actress Roosa Heinonen is heading for her first lead role in a historical drama film called The Pastor. Arriving to the film set, she confronts an unpleasant surprise. ...

Sibelius Continuum (2019)

Aino, a pilot intern in her small plane, is assigned on a mission to locate a mysterious lost space probe that has fallen down to earth near the arctic circle. Events make an absurd, surreal, maybe a dadaist turn after which to reach her objectives, Aino a ...

Ryhmäteatteri (2018)

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company. ...

The Other Side of Hope (2017)

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

The Girl King (2015)

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality. ...

Brothers (2011)

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father's 70th birthday: nihilistic writer Ivar, failed film producer Mitja, and resentful caretaker Torsti. ...

The House of Branching Love (2009)

The story recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer. ...

Hellsinki (2009)

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

Three Wise Men (2008)

Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone w ...

1944 The Final Defence (2007)

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the l ...

Enkeli tulessa (2004)

Tie naisen sydämeen (1996)

Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. The ...

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 ...

The Winter War (1989)

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, ...

Niskavuoren nuori emäntä (1987)

The first part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Loviisa comes to Niskavuori as Juhani's young wife. She has to fight for her right to the house and her husband, but finds her own way of life and takes her place as the mistress of the house. Based on Hella ...

Hirtettyjen kettujen metsä (1986)

An alcoholic major Remes gets frustrated in the barracks and asks for a leave of absence. It is agreed to on the condition that Remes conducts one more military exercise. During that, Remes runs into a cunning career criminal Oiva Juntunen, who has hidden ...

The Wrestler (1985)

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own. ...

Minä, siili ja trumpetti (1983)

The story of Ailu's summer, which he spends on an island with his trumpet and hedgehog for company while his father is at work. His ingenuity is put to the test when lonely Ailu tries to find things to do and entertain himself. ...

Jon (1983)

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too. ...

Kuoleman hellä kosketus (1982)

A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose. ...

Gotta Run! (1982)

Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken far ...

Tie (1981)

A drama based on the lives of children and parents in a small farming family. Based on Esko Raennon's novel Tie. ...

The Breakthrough (1981)

Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal lives. ...

Vartioitu kylä 1944 (1978)

In the summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and girlfriend Anna for a break in his home village in Kainuu, located near the Soviet border and the war zone, which is protected from partisans by a military ...

Gracious Night (2021)

The three men enjoy the evening at a bar whose fate is threatened by pandemic restrictions. Bartender Heikki offers discussion help to his friend Risto, who works in the first line of healthcare, and who has just finished a difficult shift. The evening get ...

Brothers (2011)

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father's 70th birthday: nihilistic writer Ivar, failed film producer Mitja, and resentful caretaker Torsti. ...

Three Wise Men (2008)

Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone w ...

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 ...